OPAPP welcomes CPP/NPA/NDF’s call to proceed with the bilateral ceasefire negotiations

From the Philippine Information Agency (Feb 22): OPAPP welcomes CPP/NPA/NDF’s call to proceed with the bilateral ceasefire negotiations

Presidential Adviser on the Peace Process Jesus G. Dureza welcomes the CPP/NPA/NDF’s call to proceed with the bilateral ceasefire negotiations.

“We welcome and respect the positive position coming from the leadership of the CPP/NPA/NDF,” Secretary Dureza said in a statement.

He added that “On the part of the Philippine government, we share the same commitment to work for just and lasting peace in the land.”

“When ‘compelling reasons,’ as President Duterte earlier announced, are present, then we in government shall take the next necessary steps,” Secretary Dureza concluded. (OPAPP)

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