President Benigno S. Aquino III has directed the Office of
the Presidential Adviser on the Peace Process (OPAPP) to firm up consultation
with the stakeholders to come up with an action plan for promoting the peace
process in the transition period during the remaining months of his
administration and up to the next administration.
Presidential Communications Operations Office (PCOO)
Secretary Herminio B. Coloma Jr. told the Radyo ng Bayan on Sunday the
directive has been given to the OPAPP through Executive Secretary Paquito Ochoa
Jr.
According to Coloma, OPAPP Secretary Teresita Deles has said
the government needs to hold consultations with all the stakeholders,
particularly with the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) which signed the
Comprehensive Agreement on the Bangsamoro (CAB) with the government peace panel
in 204.
”But measures will include strengthening existence peace
bodies and mechanisms, joint bodies for socioeconomic interventions,” Coloma
said, quoting Deles’ statement.
The government, Deles said, wants to operationalize the
recommendations of the transitional justice and reconciliatory commission
regarding the healing of the wounds of war and moving towards sharpened
interfaith and multicultural dialogue and cooperation.
”And also very important, undertaking the necessary
groundwork to ensure the legal political track in the next administration. We
need to do all that is possible to ensure the full implementation of the CAB
beyond this administration,” Deles said.
The signing of the CAB between the Philippine government
peace panel and the MILF has resulted in the drafting of the Bangsamoro Basic
Law (BBL) which both the Senate and the House of Representatives are still
working to get it pass in the remaining sessions of the 16th Congress.
In the Senate, Committee on Local Government Chairman
Senator Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos submitted a substitute bill
entitled Basic Law on the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region (BLBAR) which, he said,
will not violate the Constitution.
The Senate, however, is still deliberating on the BLBAR at
the plenary and Senate President Franklin Drilon said the Senate is already
running out of time to pass the Bangsamoro bill.
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