The Government of the Philippines (GPH) and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) finally signed on Thursday afternoon the Comprehensive Agreement on the Bangsamoro (CAB) at Kalayaan Grounds in Malacanang.
President Benigno S. Aquino III hosted the historic event which was attended by over 1,000 people, including around 500 members of the MILF.
Also present during the occasion was Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak who arrived in
The principal signatories were Government Peace Panel chair Miriam Coronel-Ferrer and MILF lead negotiator Mohager Iqbal.
Other signatories on the government side included panel members Senen Bacani; Yasmin Busran-Lao; Mehol Sadain, ex-officio member and secretary of the National Commission on Muslim Filipinos; panel consultants Zenonida Brosas and Jose Luis Martin Gascon.
On the MILF side, the other signatories were Datu Michael Mastura, Maulana ‘Bobby’ Alonto, Abhoud Syed Lingga, Abdullah Kamlian, and Datu Antonio Kinoc.
The Malaysian facilitator, Tengku Dato' Abdul Ghafar Tengku Mohamed, also signed as witness.
The signing was done in the presence of Secretary Teresita Quintos-Deles of the Office of the Presidential Adviser on the Peace Process; and Al Haj Murad Ebrahim, chair of the MILF Central Committee.
Others present in the event were leaders from the House of Representatives and the Senate and foreign dignitaries.
The CAB is a five-page, 12-point text that formalizes the totality of the different agreements achieved between the GPH and the MILF.
It defines the structure and powers of the proposed Bangsamoro entity that will replace the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM).
It also puts together all of these previously signed accords: the Framework Agreement on the Bangsamoro, the annexes, and the addendum; along with the very first, important ceasefire agreement of 1997; the agreement on peace signed in 2001 in Tripoli; the declaration of continuity of negotiations in June 2010, which picked up the pieces from the failed MOA-AD (Memorandum of Agreement on Ancestral Domain) of 2008, among others.
http://www.pna.gov.ph/index.php?idn=1&sid=&nid=1&rid=629959
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