The National League for Democracy (NLD) will begin meetings with various ethnic political parties this week, making good on its stated plan to include ethnic minorities in its efforts to build a democratic federal union after winning national elections in November, RFA reported quoting party officials.

Two days after the Nov. 8 election victory with a new five-year mandate, Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi’s party issued statements calling on 48 ethnic political parties to join renewed talks about a federal union, held up as a way to end 70 years of ethnic wars.

A dozen ethnic parties responded to the NLD’s call, while the others are waiting for official invitations to the meetings.