From GMA News (Jul 26): Palace won't terminate pacts with MNLF
Malacañang on Friday denied that it plans to terminate all pacts between the Philippine government and the Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF).
Malacañang on Friday denied that it plans to terminate all pacts between the Philippine government and the Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF).
"It is not true that the Philippine government has asked the OIC for the abrogation of any and all agreements between the government and the MNLF," deputy presidential spokesperson Abigail Valte said during a press briefing.
Valte was reacting to former MNLF leader Nur Misuari's allegation that the government is asking the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) to end all agreements with the MNLF. The Philippine government and the MNLF signed a peace pact in 1996.
Valte, however, said that Presidential Adviser on the Peace Process Secretary Teresita "Ging" Deles is actually in Indonesia to speak with the foreign minister about the MNLF.
On Thursday, the Palace also dismissed Misuari's claim in a letter to the United Nations (UN) that there is a need to send peacekeepers to Mindanao because of reported influx of soldiers there.
President Aquino's administration is in the final stages of negotiations for a peace deal with the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF), which is expected to result in a Bangsamoro Political Entity that will replace the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM).
The MILF is a splinter group of the MNLF.