Saturday, August 8, 2015

MILF: Malaysian Ambassador visits MILF’s Camp Darapanan

Posted to the MILF Website (Aug 8): Malaysian Ambassador visits MILF’s Camp Darapanan

Malaysian Ambassador visits MILF’s Camp Darapanan

Malaysian Ambassador to the Philippines His Excellency Dato Mohammad Zamri Mohammad Kassim, Malaysian Consul Zawawi Tahir and MGeneral Sheikh Mohksin, Head of International Monitoring Team (IMT) Mission-10 and their delegation visited the main camp of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) in Darapanan, Sultan Kudarat, Maguindanao on August 6 and conferred with MILF Chairman Al Haj Murad Ebrahim in his office.

Also present during the meeting were MILF 1st Vice Chairman Ghazali Jaafar and other members of the MILF Central Committee.

Chairman Al Haj Murad warmly welcome the Malaysian delegation and expressed appreciation for their coming to Mindanao and at Camp Darapanan.

In the course of their conversation, the Malaysian Ambassador reiterated his government’s strong commitment and support to the peace process; to continue acting as peace process facilitator and head of the IMT as long as both parties need it; to continue extending to the Bangsamoro and Filipino People in general their assistance in the field of education and human resource development (HRD) through their institutions and programs like the MTCP,  GIATMARA and others; to assist in developing the economy through inviting and encouraging private investors to invest in the Bangsamoro and other parts of the country; expressed hope and prayers for the early passage of the Bangsamoro Basic Law(BBL) that is acceptable to all parties and the Bangsamoro people; and to continue to monitor the situation and progress of the peace process.

Chairman Al Haj Murad expressed the Moro Front’s and the Moro peoples’ gratitude to the active participation of the Malaysian Government in the peace process vis a vis, facilitating the peace talks; heading the IMT as well as extending educational and human resource development training to selected Moro individuals particularly on capacity building, etc.

These capacity building programs being extended to Moro participants in Malaysia are in preparation for the upcoming establishment of the Bangsamoro new political entity once the BBL is passed by congress and ratified by the people in proposed areas of Bangsamoro in a plebiscite.

The two Chambers of Congress are yet to come up with a final version of the Bangsamoro Law seen to resolve the decades-old Bangsamoro Problem/ and or question.

The proposed law is still pending in congress with no clear timetable for its passage. The MILF, the GPH Peace panel, as well as prominent individuals including influential Cotabato Archbishop Orlando Cardinal Quevedo, CSO’s and NGO’s supportive of the peace process; and the Bangsamoro people have urged congress to pass the original version of the proposed law agreed between President Benigno Aquino II and the MILF submitted to congress on September 10, 2014, based on the Framework Agreement on the Bangsamoro (FAB) and the Comprehensive Agreement on the Bangsamoro (CAB).



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