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GRP – MILF NEGOTIATIONS
 Lessons Learned, Challenges, and Ways Forward 
Abhoud Syed M. Lingga
Institute of Bangsamoro Studies
The Waging Peace in the Philippines Conference of 2006 –Twenty Years of Waging Peace in the Philippines -Learning Lessons for Policy and PracticeDecember 5-6, 2006
 
 
GRP-MILF Formal Talks
•Negotiations to solve the Mindanao problem wereconfined with the MNLF before the 1996 Peace Accord.•Contacts between the GRP and the MILF were at theinformal level.•August 3, 1996, Sec. Ruben Torres met MILF vice chair for political affairs Ghadzali Jaafar in Davao City.•Another meeting was held in Cagayan de Oro City onSept. 9-10, 1996 where issues on cessation of hostilitiesand creation of technical committees to draw talkingpoints and guidelines of ceasefire were discussed.•Jan. 7, 1997, first meeting of the technical committees of GRP and MILF Peace panels. The start of the formalnegotiations.
 
 
GRP and MILF recognize
•The need for comprehensive, just and lasting politicalsettlement of the conflict in Mindanao throughnegotiations.•That the “peace negotiations between the GRP andMILF is for the advancement of the the general interestof the Bangsamoro people and other indigenous people”.•“The negotiation and peaceful resolution of the conflictmust involve consultations with the Bangsamoro peoplefree of any imposition”.•The “Bangsamoro people’s fundamental right todetermine their own future and political status.”•“…respect for the identity, culture and aspirations of allpeoples of Mindanao.”
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