Sunday, July 24, 2016

MILF: 10-member GPH-MILF Implementing Team to meet in KL, BTC to be reconstituted

Posted to the Moro Islamic Liberation Front Website (Jul 23): 10-member GPH-MILF Implementing Team to meet in KL, BTC to be reconstituted




A 10-member GPH-MILF Implementing Team will resume the Bangsamoro Peace Process in Kuala Lumpur in early August, Presidential Adviser on the Peace Process Jesus Dureza and MILF chair Al Haj Murad Ebrahim said during their first-ever meeting at the MILF enclave of Camp Darapanan, Sultan Kudarat, Maguindanao.

MindaNews reported on August 21 that the joint implementing team, composed of five representatives from the GPH and five from the MILF, is expected to discuss their joint peace roadmap in accordance with the 2014 Comprehensive Agreement on the Bangsamoro (CAB) and in convergence with the 1996 Final Peace Agreement (FPA) between government and the Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF), and other sectors for what would be a broader, more inclusive Bangsamoro Peace roadmap.

A new peace roadmap  presented by Dureza to Pres. Rorido Duterte during a meeting in MalacaƱan provides that work on the new proposed Bangsamoro enabling law “will be done simultaneous with the moves to shift to a federal set-up, the latter expected to come later under the planned timeline.”
 
The 15-member MILF-led Bangsamoro Transition Commission (BTC), composed of eight members nominated by the MILF and seven nominated by the government, will be reconstituted and will be tasked to draft a “more inclusive” enabling law that will be filed with Congress” in lieu of the Bangsamoro Basic Law (BBL) that was not passed by the previous Congress, MindaNews said in its report.
 
A new draft of Bangsamaoro Law that will agreed upon by both teams envisions the “consolidation and/or convergence” of the various peace agreements already entered into – the CAB, the FPA, “including relevant provisions” of RA 9054 and the Indigenous People’s Rights Act (IPRA).
 
On Thursday, Dureza told MindaNews that the government side in the Implementing Team will be led by Undersecretary Andot.
 
Dureza also said he planned to raise the membership of the BTC from 15 to 21 but he and Murad agreed to leave this decision to the implementing team. Whatever the number will be, the MILF will still be the majority, they said.
 
The Executive Order on the reconstituted BTC will come out, Dureza said “wala pa” (none yet) but added, “We have to compose as soon as possible already”, Dureza told MindaNews.
 
The government and MILF will submit to President Duterte a list of their respective nominees to the BangsamoroTransition Constitution.
 
Dureza said the seven nominees of government will include representatives from MNLF, ARMM, “maybe the Sultanates, maybe the IPs there.”
 

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