From the MILF Website (Mar 7): MILF reiterates ‘no comment’ policy on Sabah standoff, calls for peaceful resolution
The Executive Committee of the MILF had called for an emergency meeting yesterday to discuss the current Sabah stand-off and to examine what possible new policy statement it can adopt in the light of this development.
The reiteration of the policy came in the heels of persistent prodding from various sectors of Philippine society especially media that the MILF should come out openly and explain its stand on the Sabah stand-off.
After several hours of deliberation, the core leadership of the MILF had reaffirmed its “no comment policy” but calls for the immediate peaceful resolution of the problem.
However, as a matter of standing policy, this no comment policy and the call for peaceful approach to problem will be elevated to and deliberated during the plenary session of the MILF Central Committee today. The Central Committee as a whole can sustain or reject the decision, which had not yet happened in any time in the past.
The Executive Committee is composed of the seven most senior members of the Central Committee, which in turn has about 70 members.
Meanwhile, one member of the MILF central governing body, who refused to be named, had told Luwaran that the Sabah stand-off does not affect the GPH-MILF peace process, saying it is another matter.
“The issue of Sabah is not part of the negotiation and we cannot discuss something which is not part of the agenda,” he explained.
He also reminded MNLF Chairman Nur Misuari, who is clearly capitalizing on the current controversy in protest of the signing of the Framework Agreement on the Bangsamoro (FAB), that the GPH-MNLF Final Agreement in 1996, which he was one of the main signatories, did not contain any provision that Sabah is part of the Bangsamoro territory.
“Why is he now crying foul that Sabah is not discussed in the peace talks?” he asked.
http://www.luwaran.com/home/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=3139:-milf-reiterates-no-comment-policy-on-sabah-standoff-calls-for-peaceful-resolution&catid=31:general&Itemid=41
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