From GMA News Online (Apr 3): Lorenzana belies Joma’s claim: There was no agreed truce last year
Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana on Tuesday belied the claim of Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) founding chairman Jose Maria Sison, saying there was no draft agreement on unilateral ceasefire between the government and the National Democratic Front of the Philippines in October last year.
"May I clarify that there [was] no agreed truce between the Philippine government and the CPP-NPA-NDFP," Lorenzana said in a statement.
The Defense chief also dismissed as "far cry from reality" the claim of Sison that he "obscures and denies the fact that against tremendous odds, the NPA has grown and gained strength nationwide from its modest beginnings."
"It proves that Mr. Sison is living in the past. If he doesn’t believe me, why doesn’t he come back and see for himself what happened to his class struggle? His Utopian ideology has been reduced to plain and simple banditry and extortion," Lorenzana said.
Sison, on self-exile in The Netherlands, earlier said the NDFP has positively responded to the expressed desire of the Government of the Republic of the Philippines to draft a ceasefire agreement on October 4, last year.
"Thus, the GRP and NDFP back channel teams have already drafted an agreement on coordinated unilateral ceasefire to be monitored by a joint ceasefire committee of the GRP and NDFP at the national level," Sison said.
In House Resolution 1803, lawmakers crossed party lines and called on President Rodrigo Duterte to continue the peace negotiations and complete the comprehensive agreements on social, economic and political reforms, which would lay the foundations of a just and lasting peace.
Duterte, on November 23 last year, signed Proclamation No. 360 terminating the peace negotiations between the government and the NDFP, just two days before the Fifth Round of formal talks scheduled on November 25-27 in Oslo, Norway.
The President has also signed a proclamation formally tagging the CPP-NPA as a terrorist group.
http://www.gmanetwork.com/news/news/nation/648665/lorenzana-belies-joma-s-claim-there-s-no-agreed-truce-last-year/story/
"May I clarify that there [was] no agreed truce between the Philippine government and the CPP-NPA-NDFP," Lorenzana said in a statement.
The Defense chief also dismissed as "far cry from reality" the claim of Sison that he "obscures and denies the fact that against tremendous odds, the NPA has grown and gained strength nationwide from its modest beginnings."
"It proves that Mr. Sison is living in the past. If he doesn’t believe me, why doesn’t he come back and see for himself what happened to his class struggle? His Utopian ideology has been reduced to plain and simple banditry and extortion," Lorenzana said.
Sison, on self-exile in The Netherlands, earlier said the NDFP has positively responded to the expressed desire of the Government of the Republic of the Philippines to draft a ceasefire agreement on October 4, last year.
"Thus, the GRP and NDFP back channel teams have already drafted an agreement on coordinated unilateral ceasefire to be monitored by a joint ceasefire committee of the GRP and NDFP at the national level," Sison said.
In House Resolution 1803, lawmakers crossed party lines and called on President Rodrigo Duterte to continue the peace negotiations and complete the comprehensive agreements on social, economic and political reforms, which would lay the foundations of a just and lasting peace.
Duterte, on November 23 last year, signed Proclamation No. 360 terminating the peace negotiations between the government and the NDFP, just two days before the Fifth Round of formal talks scheduled on November 25-27 in Oslo, Norway.
The President has also signed a proclamation formally tagging the CPP-NPA as a terrorist group.
http://www.gmanetwork.com/news/news/nation/648665/lorenzana-belies-joma-s-claim-there-s-no-agreed-truce-last-year/story/
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