The peace agreement might be up for review in a meeting organized by the Organization of Islamic Conference in July.
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DAVAO CITY — World Bank-led development projects are already being carried out in conflict-affected areas in Mindanao even as the government?s stalled peace negotiations with the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) in Malaysia have yet to resume.
A series of massacres of civilians in Sulu, including those of two grandchildren of an MNLF leader, provoked the latest wave of fighting between government troops and the Moro revolutionary group.
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MANILA — Health spending experienced possibly the steepest drop under the Arroyo administration and this has forced Filipinos to pay more for badly needed health services, according to independent think-tank IBON Foundation.
UTRECHT — ? The National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP) on Friday filed formal complaints before a special body of the United Nations for the enforced disappearance of two NDFP personnel and charged President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo of the Government of the Republic of the Philippines (GRP) and nine of her senior security officials as responsible for the disappearances.
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