Friday, July 12, 2013

MILF: Yakan City Committee holds consultation on the impasse on the peace process

From the MILF Website (Jul 12): Yakan City Committee holds consultation on the impasse on the peace process

Yakan City Committee of the MILF held a 1-day consultation on the impasse of the peace process last July 9, 2013 at Barrio Militar Barangay Menzi, this city.
  
More than 40 participants mostly officials of various line agencies and sectoral committees including women (SWC) attended the consultation. An aleem who rendered an invocation and delivered a message said, "Hindrances are always present in our endeavors, even our own brother or close kin are sometime against us what more with other people...its should not be treated as problems but challenges". 

The participants were anxious to know the real situation of the GPH-MILF peace process especially when for a couple of months the peace process hit a snag due to disagreements on the wealth-sharing annex.

The chairman of YCC said, "Even without negotiation we are all united in the struggle of the Bangsamoro under the banner of the MILF and now that we are engage in negotiation we have to exert more efforts to consolidate our strengths as we have had in the past to face the toughest situations in the future". He said further, “We should not be frustrated rather we have to be prepared for any eventualities that we may encounter in our midst".

District chairmen reported before the audience of their achievements and challenges that they have faced. The municipal chair of Maluso Municipality related the problems of his community on the aspect of livelihood where hundreds of his constituents are losing jobs due to the encroachment of foreign fishing vessels into their fishing areas resulting to inadequacies of fish catch by local fishermen. The women sector reported on the activities they have undertaken that dealt mostly on the welfare of the children and women.

The program ended with strong commitment of support to the MILF leadership and the peace panel in its negotiations with Government of the Philippines with high hope that a breakthrough shall take place in the negotiation now taking place in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia with members of the Third Party Monitoring Team (TPMT) attending for the first time since it was created.

Former European Union ambassador to the Philippines and now ambassador to Cambodia, Alistair McDonald heads the TPMT, which is tasked to monitor the implementation of all agreements of the parties especially the Framework Agreement on the Bangsamoro (FAB) and its annexes (Transitional Arrangement and Modalities, Power-sharing, Wealth-sharing, and Normalization) which will be signed as comprehensive peace agreement, and finally to evaluate the full implementation of the parties leading to signing their “Exit Agreement”.

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