5ID, OPAPP, CBA celebrate completion of integration of CPLA to AFP

From the Philippine Information Agency (Nov 9): 5ID, OPAPP, CBA celebrate completion of integration of CPLA to AFP

GAMU, Isabela - - The 5th Infantry Division of the Philippine Army (5ID PA), the Office of the Presidential Adviser on the Peace Process (OPAPP) and the Cordillera Bodong Administration (CBA) culminate  today at Camp Melchor Dela Cruz, this town, the completion of one of the components of Executive Order No. 49.

Issued  on  July 4,  2011,  EO 49  mandates the implementation of the memorandum of agreement, entitled, “Towards the Cordillera People Liberation Army’s (CPLA) Final Disposition of Arms and Forces and its Transformation into a Potent Socio-economic and Unarmed Force” and for Other Purposes.

This Closure Agreement  aims to put an end  to the Mount Data Peace Accord signed by the Government and the CPLA on September 13, 1986.

Sec. Teresita Deles of OPAPP is guest of honor and Speaker with governors, mayors and other officials of the Cordillera Administrative Region in attendance.
“Today is a great day for we will witness the completion of the Army integration program of Cordillera peace process” twitted OPAPP.

The 5ID PA hosted the training and integration  of hundreds of CPLAs into the Army.
Administrative Order No. 18  issued in  2001  mandated the integration of the CPLA members into the regular force of the AFP as officers, enlisted personnel and/or active auxiliaries of the Citizen Armed Force Geographical Units  and provide  livelihood for them.

Other  elements of the closure Agreement include  economic reintegration of CPLA members, development of CPLA communities and inter municipal and interbarangay development projects.

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