Secretary Jesus Dureza (center, left) meets MILF Chair Hadji Murad Ebrahim (right) at Camp Darapanan to discuss the plans for the Bangsamoro peace process PHOTO FROM OPAPP’s TWITTER
Presidential peace adviser Jesus Dureza and the chairman of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) on Thursday met in Sultan Kudarat days after President Rodrigo Duterte approved the government’s new “peace roadmap.”
Dureza and MILF chair Hadji Murad Ebrahim met at Camp Darapanan to “discuss the administration’s plan for the Bangsamoro peace process.”
Dureza assured Murad that all the previous peace agreements of the government would be respected.
“We will continue the process. We are not reinventing here. We will build on what has already been gained,” Dureza said.
Murad also gave his commitment to the government that they would “preserve all the past agreements.”
On Monday, Duterte approved an inclusive peace road map where an all-Moro body would be tasked to draft “a new enabling law” to replace the Bangsamoro Basic Law (BBL).
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BBL is the enabling law of the Comprehensive Agreement on the Bangsamoro (CAB), an agreement signed by the Philippine government and the MILF on March 27, 2014.
The BBL, however, failed to pass under the term of former President Benigno Aquino III.
Previous peace agreements between the government and the MILF have been stalled in previous administrations.
Dureza has said the Bangsamoro Transition Committee (BTC), which is in the CAB, would be reconstituted where the MILF, the Moro National Liberation Front, the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao and other Bangsamoro entities would be represented.
“We hope that in that composition, (it) will be the start of the so-called inclusivity,” he said. JE/rga
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