National League for Democracy (NLD) Chairperson, Aung San Suu Kyi, has called on the ethnic minority people of Myanmar to keep alive the spirit of national reconciliation.

Speaking in Naypyidaw to NLD members who had travelled in from Karen State, she said, “I would like to urge you to keep alive the spirit of national reconciliation, which brings about mutual understanding and mutual respect, and allows us to help each other, whether it be among our own ethnic people or among all [Burmese] citizens – all the people of the union, regardless of race, religion, language or place of birth.”