Myanmar's President Win Myint has called for cooperation among all sides in the Rakhine state conflict so elections can be held in the troubled state where voting was cancelled last month because of fighting, but a rare truce has held for five weeks, RFA reported.

Myanmar election authorities cancelled voting in conflict areas of the western state, preventing about 1.2 million voters from casting ballots in the Nov. 8 general elections won by a landslide by the ruling National League for Democracy (NLD).

The president made the remark in a printed statement to mark the 46th Rakhine State Day on Monday, the anniversary of the day Rakhine was established as a separate state under the 1974 constitution.