A day after President Rodrigo Roa Duterte said he would meet
Moro National Liberation Front MNLF) founder Nur Misuari early next year, talks
between the Philippine government and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF)
resumed in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
Peace negotiators convened their meeting to launch the
“Implementing Phase of the Mindanao Peace Agreements between the GPH and MILF”
on Saturday.
At the talks in the Malaysian capital are Presidential Peace
Adviser Secretary Jesus Dureza, Peace Facilitator YM Tenku Dato' Ab Ghafar
Tengku Mohamed, MILF Chairman Alhaj Murad Ebrahim and Malaysian Deputy Minister
of Defense Y.B Dato' Sri Mohd Johari Bin Baharum.
Dureza said, in a news release of the Office of the
Presidential Adviser on the Peace Process posted on August 11, the composition
of the Bangsamoro Transition Commission (BTC)— the body tasked to draft a
Bangsamoro enabling law — was on the agenda of their meeting.
The OPAPP Secretary said an idea that could be tackled is
the expansion of the BTC composition to include MNLF leaders, officials of the
ARMM, and other sectors in Mindanao .
“The current setup of the BTC is composed of eight
representatives from the MILF and seven appointees of the government,” the
OPAPP said in its Aug. 11 news release.
President Dutere said on Friday in Jolo, Sulu province he
would likely meet Misuari “after the level of the panels is completed and
everything had been laid down.”
”So, ang trabaho ko, when I became President was really to
seek peace not war. At inumpisahan ko na kaagad iyong peace talks, pati iyong
mga tao dito, pati kay Nur, kilala kami matagal na. I’ve been telling him,
“Nur, can we just talk about, tapos maghanap tayo ng paraan kung papano,”
Duterte said.
The President also said he had told Dureza “to talk to Nur
at kung maari sabi ko, isabay ko na lang, kasi magastos iyong isa’t-isa. Puwede
naman iyang in the discussion, half of the discussion with Nur and half to
discussion would be with the MILF.”
Last Aug. 9, Dureza said the KL meeting would zero-in on the
mechanism that would determine how the new enabling law would be crafted and
key provisions of the Comprehensive Agreement on the Bangsamoro that could
already be implemented.
“If everything goes well, and it is acceptable in their
convergence, that can be very well be the mechanism to start of the groups to
already come together and craft of the enabling law,” Dureza said on Aug. 9 in
a press briefing before heading to Kuala Lumpur.
With Dureza in the Malaysian capital are the chair of the
implementing panel Irene Santiago, and OPAPP Undersecretaries Diosita Andot and
Nabil Tan, and OPAPP Assistant Secretaries Dickson Hermoso and Rolando Asuncion.
http://www.pna.gov.ph/index.php?idn=1&sid=&nid=1&rid=913504
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