Government and Moro Islamic Liberation Front
(MILF) peace negotiators are scheduled to meet in Kuala Lumpur , Malaysia
A highly reliable
source privy to the talks told the Manila Bulletin the meeting may last two to
three days depending on the progress of the discussion.
Prof. Miriam
Coronel-Ferrer will lead the GPH panel while her counterpart, Mohagher Iqbal
will head the MILF panel.
The Normalization
Annex – the fourth and last Annex of the Framework Agreement on the Bangsamoro
(FAB) covers three main components: security, socio-economic development, and
transitional justice and reconciliation.
An Independent
Commission on Policing (ICP) will be created to recommend the appropriate
policing in the Bangsamoro from the Philippine National Police.
The Annex will
see the formation of transitional components like the Joint Normalization
Commission (JNC), the Joint Peace and Security Committee (JPSC), and the Joint
Peace and Security Teams (JPST) from the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP),
PNP, and MILF’s military arm, the Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters (BIAF) with
the aim of preserving “peace and order
and the stability of the areas mutually identified by the GPH and MILF.”
The Joint Normalization (JNC) will coordinate the processes of
normalization.
The panel is also
expected to discuss the gradual decommissioning of the MILF combatants and
their weapons.
OCT. 13
MEETING
Meanwhile, the
Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) will convene on October 13 in Manila
The 57-nation OIC
formed the BCF as a venue for cooperation of the MNLF and the MILF to push the Mindanao peace process forward.
Syed El-Masry, a
representative of the Egyptian government will preside over the BCF meeting,
according to former Cotabato City Mayor Muslimin Sema of the MNLF-Sema faction.
El-Masry is the
OIC’s special envoy to the Southern Philippines .
Egypt leads the OIC’s
Southern Philippines Peace Committee with Libya ,
Indonesia , Senegal , Turkey ,
Bangladesh , Malaysia , Somalia ,
Brunei and Saudi Arabia
The committee
monitors the situation of Moro communities in areas covered by the Sept. 2,
1996 peace pact between the Philippine government and the MNLF.
“The MILF is an
indispensable component of the BCF,” Sema said.
“We look forward
to a good meeting, where we in the MNLF and our brothers in the MILF can
possibly `harmonize” our diverse positions on how to solve this decades-old
Mindanao Moro issue,” Sema said.
http://www.mb.com.ph/gph-milf-peace-panels-meet-in-kl-today-on-normalization-issues/
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