This week’s round of talks on the annexes to the Framework Agreement on the Bangsamoro (FAB) will end on Saturday, November 17 instead of Sunday as both government (GPH) and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) peace panels agreed to consult their respective principals on the still unresolved issues and prepare for the next and hopefully, last round, a few weeks from now. The Technical Working Groups (TWGs) on power-sharing, wealth-sharing and normalization, ended their sessions for this round at 6 p.m. Friday with their respective joint reports to be submitted to the plenary during the closing rites on Saturday. The reports are expected to cite the progress of their work, the consensus points and the issues that have yet to be resolved. The first to end their session was the TWG on Normalization, the “harder nut to crack,” as MILF peace panel chair Mohagher Iqbal described it in his opening remarks on Monday. Members from the GPH-MILF TWG came out of their meeting room with GPH peace panel chair Marvic Leonen at 6 p.m., their laughter reverberating in the foyer at the Lower Ground floor of the Palace of the Golden Horses hotel....
TWG on Normalization after the session Friday (L to R): MILF-TWG chair Mohamad Nasif and member Naguib Sinarimbo with GPH peace panel chair Marvic Leonen, GPH-TWG chair Zenaida Brosas and member Apple Oreta. MIndaNews photo by Carolyn O. Arguillas
.... Iqbal said normalization is the “harder nut to crack” because “it is not only about disposition of troops, weapons, decommissioning and policing, but it is more importantly tied up with implementation of the Agreement on the ground, which in turn breeds trust. Trust is something that cannot happen instantly especially between former adversaries. You have to patiently build and nurture it.” MindaNews sources said the GPH and MILF TWGs on Normalization have narrowed down the issues, based on the FAB provisions on normalization, into eight: decommissioning of the MILF, redeployment of the Armed Forces of the Philippines and Philippine National Police, interim internal security, policing, Joint Normalization Committee, monitoring and evaluation, development trust fund and transitional justice....
http://www.mindanews.com/peace-process/2012/11/17/gph-milf-end-talks-on-annexes-a-day-earlier-to-consult-principals-prepare-for-next-round/
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