The government peace panel is committed to a thorough but
accelerated peace negotiations with the National Democratic Front (NDF) as both
panels head to Oslo , Norway
“We take cue from the President (Rodrigo Duterte). Our efforts
are geard towards that direction (thorough discussion but in an accelerated
way),” Librado said at Wednesday’s AFP-PNP Press forum at Royal Mandaya Hotel.
The GRP panel gets inspiration, openness and guidance from
the President that the talks could sustain within his six-year term given his
full commitment to achieve a just and lasting peace.
In the resumption of talks in Oslo
The panels will discuss the affirmation of previously signed
agreements; accelerated process for negotiations, including the timeline for
the completion of the remaining substantive agenda; reconstitution of the
(JASIG) list; Amnesty Proclamation for the release of all detained political
prisoners subject to concurrence by Congress; and the Mode of Interim
ceasefire.
While they are looking at a very short timeline, Librado
said President Duterte wants a thorough discussion.
Lawyer Antonio Arellano, who is the newest member of the
government panel, emphasized on sustained peace negotiations, saying the
government under the Duterte administration cannot afford to be a failed state.
Arellano is optimistic there are enough solutions to issues
which are expected to be raised during the negotiations, under existing laws.
He said the Oslo
The resumption of the GPH-NDF peace negotiations is getting
support from various sectors.
The League of Cities of the Philippines (LCP) gave its full
support to the resumption of the peace negotiations with all armed groups in
the country as one of the priorities of the Duterte administration.
LCP noted that the "protracted people's war" being
waged for more than 46 years has resulted in the displacement of tens of
thousands of rural folks specifically the Indigenous Peoples, fisherfolk,
farmers and farm workers, and the rural poor.
They cited Duterte’s determination to end the armed conflict
by addressing its root causes of poverty, injustice, lack of opportunity for
the poor, and exploitation of the basic sectors perpetuated by the
elite/oligarchs.
Even Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) founding chair
Jose Maria Sison lauded the President’s acts of goodwill to move forward the
peace negotiations between his government and the NDFP by making possible the
release of the JASIG-protected NDFP consultants from prison and graciously
meeting the NDFP lawyers and consultants together with his negotiators and
other officials last Monday.
“Despite a previous glitch in our communications, President
Duterte and I remain good friends. Our friendship has a strong basis in long
standing cooperation and in a common desire to serve the national and
democratic rights and best interests of the Filipino people. Furthermore, we
have plenty of mutual friends who help maintain our friendship,” Sison said in
a statement.
Sison said they are both inspired by the principles and
objectives of Kabataang Makabayan and driven by the patriotic desire to
continue the unfinished revolution of Andres Bonifacio. BAYAN and the producers
of the film TIBAK (Kabataang Makabayan) have notified us of the plan to give us
the Gawad Supremo soon in honor of Bonifacio.
Sison also committed to get in touch with Duterte during the
Oslo
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