1. A representative of the Hill Peoples,
selected by the Governor on the recommendation of representatives
of the Supreme Council of the United Hill Peoples (SCOUHP),
shall be appointed a counselor to the Governor to deal
with the Frontier Areas.
2. The said Counselor shall also be
appointed a Member of the Governor's Executive Council,
without portfolio, and the subject of Frontier Areas brought
within the purview of the Executive council by Constitutional
Convention as in the case of Defence and External Affairs.
The Counselor for Frontier Areas shall be given executive
authority by similar means.
3. The said Counselor shall be assisted
by two Deputy Counselors representing races of which he
is not a member. While the two Deputy Counselors should
deal in the first instance with the affairs of the respective
areas and the Counselor with all the remaining parts of
the Frontier Areas, they should by Constitutional Convention
act on the principle of joint responsibility.
4. While the Counselor, in his capacity
of Member of the Executive Council, will be the only representative
of the Frontier Areas on the Council, the Deputy Counselors
shall be entitled to attend meetings of the Council when
subjects pertaining to the Frontier Areas are discussed.
5.
Though the governor's Executive Council will be
augmented as agreed above, it will not operate in respect
of the Frontier Areas in any manner which would deprive
any portion of these Areas of the Autonomy which it now
enjoys in internal administration. Full autonomy in internal
administration for the Frontier Areas is accepted in principle.
6. Though the question of demarcation
and establishing a separate Kachin State within a Unified
Burma is one which must be relegated for decision by the
Constituent Assembly, it is agreed that such a State is
desirable. As first step towards this end, the Counselor
for Frontier Areas and the Deputy Counselors shall be
consulted in the administration of such areas in the Myitkyina
and the Bhamo District as are Part II Scheduled Areas
under the Government of Burma Act of 1935.
7. Citizens of the Frontier Areas shall
enjoy rights and privileges which are regarded as fundamental
in democratic countries.
8. The arrangements accepted in this
Agreement are without prejudice to the financial autonomy
now vested in the Federated Shan States.
9. The arrangements accepted in this
Agreement are without prejudice to the financial assistance
which the Kachin Hills and the Chin Hills are entitled
to receive from the revenues of Burma, and the Executive
Council will examine with the Frontier Areas Counselor
and Deputy Counselors the feasibility of adopting for
the Kachin Hills and the Chin Hills financial arrangements
similar to those between Burma and the Federated Shan
States.
