与少数民族叛军的和平谈判取得了进展 — — 此类冲突的根源可以追溯到殖民地时期的分割统治策略，在独立后的60余年里，缅甸统治者也延续了这一策略。
Progress has been made on peace agreements with ethnic-minority insurgents – conflicts rooted in the divide-and-rule strategy of colonialism, which the country’s post-independence rulers maintained for more than six decades.