From the MILF Website (Jan 26): GPH, MILF clinch deal on Normalization Annex
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The Government of the Philippines (GPH) and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF), the country's largest Muslim rebel group have reached a deal to end four decades of insurgency in the southern Philippines that has killed tens of thousands of people, the Sunstar reported on January 25.
The Government of the Philippines (GPH) and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF), the country's largest Muslim rebel group have reached a deal to end four decades of insurgency in the southern Philippines that has killed tens of thousands of people, the Sunstar reported on January 25.
Philippine presidential spokesman Edwin Lacierda said government negotiators and the leaders of the 11,000-strong Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) concluded talks Saturday on the final document, involving the gradual deactivation of rebel forces. The document was signed yesterday afternoon.
The accord, along with three other agreements on transitional arrangement and modalities, wealth-sharing and power-sharing, will make up a comprehensive peace pact that is expected to be signed in Manila soon.
The talks that started last Wednesday, January 22 were held in Kuala Lumpur in Malaysia, which has been brokering the negotiations.
While other armed groups remain, turning the Moro rebel group into a government ally is seen as a key step to end the Muslim insurgency.
Peace pact is “world’s showcase”
Meanwhile, Malaysian facilitator Tengku Dato’ Ab Ghafar Tengku Mohammed of the GPH-MILF Peace Talks looks at the nearly completed comprehensive peace agreement as the Philippines’ second major contribution to the world, after People Power in 1986.
“The Philippines gave the world People Power in 1986. This is another,” He told MindaNews that the peace agreement is a “world’s showcase”.
“Where in the world,” he asked, “can you find a country of 90% Catholics giving autonomy to Muslims?”
Within the context of a majority-minority population, the GPH-MILF peace pact is a “world’s showcase” in peace-building, he said.
Tengku, the talks’ facilitator from 2001 to 2002 and from April 2011, said what is coming out of the “genuine negotiations” is “the most advanced autonomous body in the world.”
He described the parties as “committed” and the political negotiation as “genuine” and “sincere.”
Tengku also noted how the Philippine government considered the asymmetric relationship that the MILF proposed.
The Philippines is a unitary state with a presidential system of government. But under the Framework Agreement on the Bangsamoro (FAB) signed on October 15, 2012, the parties agreed that Bangsamoro, the new autonomous political entity that would replace the 24-year old Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao, would have a ministerial form of government, said a report by MindaNews on January 24.
The two parties on Thursday agreed to call the comprehensive peace pact as the Comprehensive Agreement on the Bangsamoro (CAB).
This weekend’s signing will pave the way for the completion of the CAB.
The CAB will be signed in the Philippines but the panels have yet to agree on the date and venue of the signing.
http://www.luwaran.com/index.php/welcome/item/783-gph-milf-clinch-deal-on-normalization-annex
The accord, along with three other agreements on transitional arrangement and modalities, wealth-sharing and power-sharing, will make up a comprehensive peace pact that is expected to be signed in Manila soon.
The talks that started last Wednesday, January 22 were held in Kuala Lumpur in Malaysia, which has been brokering the negotiations.
While other armed groups remain, turning the Moro rebel group into a government ally is seen as a key step to end the Muslim insurgency.
Peace pact is “world’s showcase”
Meanwhile, Malaysian facilitator Tengku Dato’ Ab Ghafar Tengku Mohammed of the GPH-MILF Peace Talks looks at the nearly completed comprehensive peace agreement as the Philippines’ second major contribution to the world, after People Power in 1986.
“The Philippines gave the world People Power in 1986. This is another,” He told MindaNews that the peace agreement is a “world’s showcase”.
“Where in the world,” he asked, “can you find a country of 90% Catholics giving autonomy to Muslims?”
Within the context of a majority-minority population, the GPH-MILF peace pact is a “world’s showcase” in peace-building, he said.
Tengku, the talks’ facilitator from 2001 to 2002 and from April 2011, said what is coming out of the “genuine negotiations” is “the most advanced autonomous body in the world.”
He described the parties as “committed” and the political negotiation as “genuine” and “sincere.”
Tengku also noted how the Philippine government considered the asymmetric relationship that the MILF proposed.
The Philippines is a unitary state with a presidential system of government. But under the Framework Agreement on the Bangsamoro (FAB) signed on October 15, 2012, the parties agreed that Bangsamoro, the new autonomous political entity that would replace the 24-year old Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao, would have a ministerial form of government, said a report by MindaNews on January 24.
The two parties on Thursday agreed to call the comprehensive peace pact as the Comprehensive Agreement on the Bangsamoro (CAB).
This weekend’s signing will pave the way for the completion of the CAB.
The CAB will be signed in the Philippines but the panels have yet to agree on the date and venue of the signing.
http://www.luwaran.com/index.php/welcome/item/783-gph-milf-clinch-deal-on-normalization-annex