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Mich June 2011
Mich June 2011
(MICHA)
Cotabato chapter
POLITICAL ISSUES AND CONCERNS UNDER THE NEW
ADMINISTRATION OF HIS EXCELLENCY BENIGNO
SIMEON C. AQUINO III ON THE GRP and MILF PEACE
NEGOTIATION
June 28, 2011
I. BACKGROUND/FACTS:
After the aborted signing of Memorandum of Agreement on Ancestral
Domain (MOA-AD), the Government of the Republic of the Philippines
(GRP) and Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) representatives met to
discuss the resumption of the peace talks. On July 7, 2009 a secret meeting
was held at Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia and revealed by the MILF in an
interview over the radio at Cotabato City. MILF demanded that they want
the previous agreed points and the provisions of Memorandum of Agreement
on Ancestral Domain (MOA-AD) as basis of the continued peace talks.
Subsequently, the panel met again on July 28, 2009 at Kuala Lumpur,
Malaysia and on July 29, 2009 both parties acknowledged each partys stand
that: The GRP acknowledges the stand of MILF that MOA-AD was
initialed, and the MILF acknowledges the stand of GRP that MOA-AD was
unsigned.
On the December 08-09, 2009 resumption of GRP-MILF formal talks,
the parties made a joint statement which states among others that: With the
resumption of the Talks, the Parties agree to begin in earnest the
negotiations on a Comprehensive Compact;
Based on the joint statement, the peace talks between the GRP and
MILF has reached this important stage where the parties AGREE to BEGIN
the NEGOTIATIONS on a COMPREHENSIVE COMPACT skipping other
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