From the Philippine News Agency (Oct 8): Biggest Muslim preachers' organization welcomes framework agreement

The leader of the biggest Muslim religious organization in the country welcomed the "framework agreement" that will eventually become the mother agreement that will address the Bangsamoro problem. Ustadz Jaafar Ali, leader of Darul Ifta (House of Opinion) and founding chair of the National Ulama (Islamic preachers) Council of the Philippines (NUCP), said the preliminary agreement was already a "done deal." “We are now guaranteed that Bangsamoro people can freely exercise their right to self determination,” Ali said a day after President Aquino announced that the government and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) have forged the peace deal. “It may take some time, but at least we are now certain that the government recognizes our peoples’ dream of self governance,” he added.

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