It is still possible for the government and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) to sign a final peace agreement within the next five weeks, the Aquino administration’s chief peace negotiator said on Sunday.
Government chief negotiator Miriam Coronel-Ferrer said both the Philippine government and the MILF peace negotiators would have to be creative in keeping the talks going and ensuring that the talks lead to a comprehensive peace pact.
The Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) has told the government it is “frustrated” with the slow progress of peace negotiations, warning that its ground commanders are losing faith that the decades-long separatist insurgency would be resolved soon.
The spokesman of the communist-led National Democratic Front on Friday accused Presidential Adviser on the Peace Process Teresita Quintos Deles of sabotaging the peace talks.
Muslim rebels in the Philippines said Wednesday they had protested at the arrests of four guerrillas, warning it could affect talks aimed at ending the decades-long insurgency.
The government “is not the stumbling block” to the peace process, Malacañang said Monday after communist rebels blamed government officials for the bleak prospects of a peace agreement.
As far as communist rebels in the Cordilleras are concerned, the prospect of forging a peace agreement with the Aquino administration is bleak, citing the government’s failure to implement an initial accord on respect for human rights and recent air strikes that left two teenagers wounded.
The Philippines’ main Muslim rebel group plans to set up a political party in preparation for the 2016 elections, the chief rebel peace negotiator said Monday.
The government is bringing the stalled peace talks with communist rebels, through the National Democratic Front, back to the public.
Putting its money where its mouth is, the government has released P42 million to the Bangsamoro Transition Commission (BTC), which is tasked to draw up the basic law of the proposed autonomous region.
The government is shoring up its peace-building efforts in Mindanao with the release of P42 million to the Bangsamoro Transition Commission (BTC).
Close to 3,000 individuals from three adjoining villages here have fled their homes as rival Moro rebel groups continue war posturing despite localized truce.
Fighting between members of the Moro National Liberation Front and Moro Islamic Liberation Front broke out in Matalam, North Cotabato, on Thursday.
