The Mindanao Business Council had extended an invitation to a member of the MILF peace panel, as guest resource person during its General Membership Assembly and Information and Education Campaign on Framework Agreement on the Bangsamoro (FAB) on March 21, 2013, 11:00 AM at N Hotel, Cagayan de Oro City and on March 22, 2013, 6:00 PM at Celadon Pension House, Iligan City.
Invited was Prof. Abhoud Syed Lingga, who is also chair of the Institute of Bangsamoro Studies (IBS) based in Cotabato City.
In their letter, the MBC explained that for the past years it has advocated for the government to consider the business sector’s perspective on the peace process. This gesture is an offer to proactively participate in the quest for peace, and on the same note, for business to be consistently appraised on the peace path and potential scenarios in Mindanao.
MBC further stressed that it had also initiated involvement in the peace process by participating in peace briefings and dialogues that it hoped can help sustain and expand to the larger business constituency.
It also disclosed that in this advocacy, MBC has partnered with The Asia Foundation with the technical guidance of the International Alert – Philippines in implementing the initiative “Business Mapping: Sustaining the Engagement of Mindanao Business Sector in the Peace Process”. The project attempts to assess the level of engagement of the Mindanao business sector on the peace process.
However, Abhoud told Luwaran that his attendance would not be possible, saying that by the time the forum is taking place he would be in Japan upon the invitation of the Japanese Foreign Ministry for a study tour on how the Japanese government and systems operate.
Fourteen others from the MILF including Chairman Mohagher Iqbal were also invited to the trip to Japan.
Japan is a member of both the International Monitoring Team (IMT) and the International Contact Group (ICG) of the GPH-MILF peace negotiation. The invitation letter was signed by MBC President Vicente T. Lao.
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