The extension of the International Monitoring Team (IMT) and the Ad Hoc Joint Action Group (AHJAG) made complete still the security mechanisms on the ground of the Government of the Philippines – Moro Islamic Liberation Front (GPH – MILF) Peace Process.
Chairman of the MILF Coordinating Committee on the Cessation of Hostilities (CCCH), Said Shiek, expressed that when interviewed after the 35th GPH – MILF Exploratory Talks in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia last week. “With the mandate of the IMT and AHJAG extended for one year, the ceasefire mechanisms on the ground remains intact,” Shiek stressed.
He said the ceasefire essentially will not be as strong as had been the past years if the IMT and AHJAG will cease to function.
In the Joint Statement issued during the 35th Exploratory Talks by Mohagher Iqbal, Chairman of the MILF Peace Panel, and Miriam Coronel-Ferrer, and witnessed by Tengku Dato’ Ab Ghafar Tnegku Mohamed, the Malaysian Facilitator, pointed the extension of the tour of duty of IMT and AHJAG in recognition of their important roles in the peace process.
The IMT composed of Malaysia, Brunei, Japan, Norway, European Union, Indonesia, Nonvioent Peaceforce (NP), Mindanao Human Rights Action Center (MinHRAC), Mindanao Peoples Caucus (MPC) and the Moslem Organization of Government Employees and Professionals (MOGOP) monitors on the ground the implementation of the security, socio-economic, civilian protection, and humanitarian / rehabilitation / development components of the GPH – MILF Peace Process.
AHJAG is the government and MILF mechanism for the isolation and interdiction of criminal elements that tend to undermine the peace process. The CCCH is the mechanism that works for safeguarding and promoting the GPH – MILF ceasefire accord.
For the whole year 2012, a record of zero armed encounter between government and MILF forces was realized. This could be credited to the effectiveness of the IMT, CCCH, AHJAG and the Local Monitoring Team – the fourth ceasefire mechanism.
In the past years the IMT was not with the ceasefire mechanisms on the ground, the incidents of ceasefire violations and armed confrontations were high, a situation that adversely affected that peace talks over the negotiating table.
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