Bilateral ceasefire deal to top agenda of resumption of peace talks -- Bello

From the Philippine News Agency (Mar 19): Bilateral ceasefire deal to top agenda of resumption of peace talks -- Bello

Government chief peace negotiator Silvestre ‘Bebot’ Bello III is optimistic that a bilateral ceasefire agreement would be reached during the resumption of peace talks between the government and the Communist Party of the Philippines-New People's Army-National Democratic Front (CPP-NPA-NDF) on April 2-6 in Oslo, Norway.

In an interview at the the inauguration of SSS - Ilagan branch in Isabela on Friday, Bello said, “topping the agenda of the fourth round of talks is the forging of a ceasefire agreement where both parties would set parameters and mechanisms for an honest-to-goodness observance of the truce.”

Bello also said, once the bilateral ceasefire agreement would be forged, they will start discussion on socio economic issues to include geniune land reform, independent foreign policies, national industrialization, among others, to come up with a Comprehensive Agreeement on Socio Economic Reforms (CASER).

If there would be no major setbacks during the talks, Bello said CASER shall be forged by the end of June and final peace agreement will be possible by the end of August, this year.

This, he said, “is because the other agreement, the Comprehensive Agreement on the Respect of Human Rights and International Humanitarian Law (CARHRIHL), which was forged during the Ramos administration, has already been adopted by both parties.”

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