NDF: NDFP Welcomes President Duterte's Announcement of Unilateral Ceasefire and Announces Its Own Readiness to Reciprocate

Propaganda statement posted to the National Democratic Front Website (Jul 25): NDFP Welcomes President Duterte's Announcement of Unilateral Ceasefire and Announces Its Own Readiness to Reciprocate

Press Release
25 July 2016

Luis Jalandoni, Chairperson  of the Negotiating Panel of the National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP),  wrote today to Secretary Silvestre Belllo III, Chairman of the Negotiating Panel of the Government of the Republic of the Philippines (GRP), welcoming President Duterte’s announcement in his SONA that he is ordering the unilateral ceasefire of the AFP and PNP in  relation to the NPA.

Jalandoni affirmed that the NDFP shared with President Duterte the determination to work for a just and lasting peace. He averred that the NDFP would  be able to respond to or reciprocate the unilateral ceasefire declaration of the GRP  soon after receiving its full text. He assured Bello that the NDFP would study it carefully and make the appropriate response.

Jalandoni assumed that the GRP  ceasefire declaration of the GRP is necessarily connected with the the release of all current political prisoners  under the amnesty proclamation to be issued by the President Duterte and concurred in by a majority of Congress, as referred to by the Oslo Joint Statement of June 15, 2016.

Jalandoni said that he was looking forward to the resumption of formal talks in Oslo on August 20-27 when the GRP and NDFP negotiating panels would at the latest exchange ceasefire declarations in order to discuss and agree further on how to make them  effective.

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http://www.ndfp.org/ndfp-welcomes-president-dutertes-announcement-unilateral-ceasefire-announces-readiness-reciprocate/