The protocol on the decommissioning of arms and forces of
the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) is set to be signed in Kuala Lumpur , Malaysia
In a statement Wednesday, government chief negotiator Miriam
Coronel-Ferrer said signatories of the protocol are panel chairmen of the
government’s peace panel and that of the MILF as well as the chairman of the
Turkey-led International Decommissioning Body (IDB) and the facilitator of Malaysia
She said they will also talk about the plans on how to
turn-over the arms to the IDB, which is also tasked to look after the
processing of combatants into productive civilians.
”The IDB will also be tasked with securing the weapons
storage area where decommissioned weapons would be kept and put beyond use,”
the statement said.
Signing of the IDB-drafted and recommended implementing
guidelines came in the heels of the death of nearly 50 members of the elite
Special Action Force (SAF) of the Philippine National Police (PNP) after a
“mis-encounter” with MILF members last Sunday.
However, the statement said decommissioning of combatants
and weapons is part of the provisions of the Comprehensive Agreement on the
Bangsamoro (CAB), which the government and the MILF inked in March 2014.
Earlier, MILF chief negotiator Mohagher Iqbal said they are
ready for this process and disclosed that about 75 high-powered firearms and
crew-served weapons will be submitted for the first batch that would be
turned-over.
Under the Annex on Normalization, one of the key components
of the peace deal, the decommissioning process will be implemented in four
phases, along with other tracks such as socio-economic programs,
confidence-building measures, redeployment of AFP (Armed Forces of the Philippines
http://www.pna.gov.ph/index.php?idn=1&sid=&nid=1&rid=730027
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