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
Malacañan 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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