The Organization
of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) composed of 57 members passed a resolution on May
28 calling on the government of the Philippines
The OIC
resolution refers to the peace agreements of the Philippine government with the
Moro National Liberation Front (1976 Tripoli Agreement and the 1996 Final Peace
Agreement in Jakarta) and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (Comprehensive
Agreement on the Bangsamoro signed on March 27, 2014).
The Annex on
Power Sharing of the CAB stipulated that all gains of previous peace agreements
should be preserved.
The OIC’s appeal
that the BBL contains all the gains of the peace agreements with the Moro
fronts is likewise in line with the Philippine government’s efforts to ensure
that the Bangsamoro entity be inclusive, in which all the Moro groups,
non-Moros, indigenous peoples and other stakeholders and sectors are fully
represented to secure just and lasting peace in Mindanao, putting an end to all
armed conflicts.
Philippine
government chief negotiator Prof. Miriam Coronel-Ferrer earlier said the
government took all efforts to make sure that the BBL would build on the gains
of all peace agreements in Mindanao to bring
genuine autonomy to the Bangsamoro.
The resolution
approved by the powerful group of Islamic nations during the two-day 42nd
Session of the OIC Council of Foreign Ministers, “calls upon the Secretary
General, Iyad Ameen Madani, to exert his efforts to find common grounds between
the parties to the Comprehensive Agreement on the Bangsamoro and the 1996
Agreement on the implementation of the 1976 Peace Agreement.”
Furthermore, OIC
leadership should “develop a mechanism to ensure that the gains of the 1996
Final Agreement on the implementation of the 1976 Peace Agreement are preserved
and the Comprehensive Agreement on the Bangsamoro are fully implemented with
the end goal of integrating the gains achieved in these peace agreements in the
Bangsamoro Basic Law,” says in the resolution.
The OIC said
it “commends the efforts of the Secretary General at narrowing the gap between
the positions of the leaderships of the MNLF and MILF to continue their joint
coordination and work to achieve peace and development for the people of the
Bangsamoro under the framework of Bangsamoro Coordination Forum (BCF)
established between the two fronts at the Islamic Conference in Dushanbe, in
particular, his quick action to avoid widening the gap of mistrust and division
between the two liberation fronts.”
Sec. General
Madani led an OIC delegation that visited the Philippines
for a series of meetings in April, which included overseeing the BCF conference
among the leaders of the two Moro fronts in Davao City
In its
resolution, the OIC welcomed the efforts of Special Envoy Ambassador Sayed
El-Masry for leading the “activation and operationalization of the BCF and
their pledge to consolidate their efforts towards achieving the Bangsamoro
people’s aspirations.”
“They further
pledged to work for harmonizing the two peace tracks through finding common
grounds between the 1976 Tripoli Agreement and the 1996 Jakarta Agreement on
the one hand and the 2014 Comprehensive Agreement on the Bangsamoro (CAB) on
the other, in order to preserve the gains contained in these agreements,” the
resolution reads.
On top of these,
the OIC also commended “the firm commitment” of the Philippine government and
the MILF to the peace process and its “determination to work for achieving an
enduring, just and lasting peace” despite the Mamasapano incident in January.
http://news.pia.gov.ph/article/view/3001433323627/ph-gov-t-urged-to-preserve-gains-of-bangsamoro-peace-agreements
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