OIC mechanism “enough forum” for MNLF, MILF to discuss moving forward

From MindaNews (Oct 28): OIC mechanism “enough forum” for MNLF, MILF to discuss moving forward

There is a way for the factions of the Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF) and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) to move forward together and that is through the coordinating mechanism proposed by Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), MILF chair Al Haj Murad Ebrahim said. Murad told a press conference in the MILF camp in Darapanan, Sultan Kudarat, Maguindanao Saturday morning that “once it will be implemented, functionalized, then it will be enough forum for all groups of the MNLF and the MILF to discuss among themselves how we can move forward together.” Although he did not name the coordinating mechanism, Murad was apparently referring to the Bangsamoro Coordination Forum that Prof. Ekemelddin Ihsanoglu, Secretary-General of the 57-nation OIC, cited in his message to the MILF’s Bangsamoro Leaders Assembly held in Darapanan in July.... “The OIC is trying to set up a Bangsamoro Coordination Forum between the MILF and MNLF, and I seize this opportunity to appeal once again to the two fronts to make this forum operative before the next meeting of the Council of Foreign Ministers (CFM) scheduled to be held in November,” Ihsanoglu said in his message read for him at the Bangsamoro Leaders’ Assembly by Tahir Ahmad Saif, Deputy Head of the OIC Minorities Department. The next CFM will be held in Djibouti, Africa on November 15 to 17....

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