Scheduled talks between Burma’s military government and delegates from the Karen National Union were cancelled after government officials objected to certain delegates from the KNU, according to sources close to the ethnic opposition group. The six-member delegation was scheduled to travel to Myawaddy and from there to the new capital in Naypyidaw for ceasefire negations today, but those plans have been cancelled because of government complaints over the chosen delegates. “They [delegates] had planned to leave today,” David Taw, head of the KNU’s foreign affairs committee, told The Irrawaddy on Thursday. “We had agreed to the junta’s previous offer [of talks] and chose six delegates ready to discuss peace.” The aborted talks follow reports of growing rifts within the KNU’s civilian and military leadership. Ceasefire talks have been conducted between Burma’s military government and the KNU several times since 1993, but with little success. The last meeting between the two sides took place in May 2005.