YANGON: A key signatory to a cease-fire brokered by outgoing President Thein Sein with some of Myanmar’s ethnic armed groups has expressed concern over lack of clarity from Aung San Suu Kyi and called on her to keep the team that struck the deal intact.

Suu Kyi, whose National League for Democracy (NLD) party won the November election, has said that bringing peace to the country marred by decades of conflict with myriad ethnic rebel groups will be the first priority of her government.

After spurning peace efforts undertaken by the quasi-civilian government of Thein Sein that took power in 2011, Suu Kyi spoke on Monday of a more inclusive process but was highly critical of Thein Sein’s efforts during an interview with Radio Free Asia on Friday.

“This peace conference is just a token recognizing the accomplishments of the Nationwide Cease-fire Agreement and the real peace conference will have to be conducted by the next government,” Suu Kyi said.

“We need to see the policy that she (Suu Kyi) will apply. We haven’t seen yet how she will apply a policy, so it is difficult to predict how she will run the peace process,” Lt. Gen. Yawd Serk, chairman of the Restoration Council of Shan State (RCSS), told Reuters on Thursday night.