From OPAPP (Jan 1): New Year's Message of the GPH Panel for Talks with CPP/NPA/NDF
The New Year is a time for new beginnings. It also allows us to build on modest gains of the year soon to end - 2012 - which has brought both impasse and advance. The peace talks with the CPP/NPA/NDF have been most challenging since they began over two decades ago. The past year and a half have been particularly trying. But despite the setbacks, we are now back on track working together for a just and lasting peace.
The process has moved forward. A ceasefire is in place, stilling the guns over the Christmas season and allowing soldier and rebel to spend Christmas with family and friends. The ceasefire had also helped provide space and time for relief and rehabilitation work that has made it possible for Typhoon Pablo's victims in Davao and elsewhere to heal and rebuild.
We pray that the ceasefire will hold and help steel the resolve of both sides for a just and enduring peace now and not later. This we owe to our people. Both panels have laid the foundation for the continuation of the GPH-NDF peace process. There is no reason for us not to make more headway in 2013. May God grant our country and our people the blessings of peace and prosperity in 2013 and beyond!
http://www.opapp.gov.ph/resources/new-years-message-gph-panel-talks-cppnpandf
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