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		</div><p>The Burmese government has signed a ceasefire agreement with eight ethnic rebel armies, but the more powerful groups have refused to come on board.</p>
<p>The agreement was signed at a ceremony in the administrative capital, Naypyitaw.</p>
<p>The refusal of the larger groups to sign it robs president Thein Sein of what he had hoped would be the crowning achievement of his five-year term.</p>
<p>It is still seen as a first step toward ending six decades of fighting between the government, dominated by the Burmese majority, and various minority ethnic groups demanding autonomy and control over their natural resources.</p>
<p>Ethnic groups, representing 40% of the 53 million population, have found themselves victims of military abuses and discrimination in areas spanning from health and education to road construction and access to electricity.</p>
<p>&#8220;The National Ceasefire Agreement is a historic gift from us to the generations of the future,&#8221; Thein Sein said at the signing ceremony.</p>
<p>&#8220;Even though the agreement is not nationwide yet, we will try harder to gain the agreement with other groups.&#8221;</p>
<p>Burma stunned the world by opening up politically and economically in 2011 after half a century of harsh military rule, but early reforms have since stalled or started rolling backward.</p>
<p>That has upped the stakes for getting ceasefire deals with all ethnic armies, one of Thein Sein&#8217;s biggest pledges.</p>
<p>It comes just before November 8 general elections for a new parliament, which will eventually lead to the election of a new president.</p>
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