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Read more about the article ?G?ov’t working on the release of NDF consultants – OPAPP Secretary
Presidential ?Peace ?Adviser?, ?Sec. Jesus Dureza, ?tells a press conference at Apo View Hotel, Davao City ?government is in constant contact with ?Moro National Liberation Front ?Chairman Nur Misuari, ?but only through emissaries owing to the rebellion charges filed against him in the court. The administration of Pres. Rodrigo Duterte is talking to different Moro revolutionary organizations to get a consensus of a peace settlement acceptable to all the constituents in the Bangsamoro homeland in Mindanao. (Medel V. Hernani/davaotoday.com)

?G?ov’t working on the release of NDF consultants – OPAPP Secretary

Presidential Adviser on the Peace Process Secretary Jesus Dureza said that the government is working on the release of the first batch of detained peace consultants of the National Democratic Front who will participate in the peace negotiations.

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Read more about the article Large-scale miners: We are responsible miners
Engr. Alexis F. Balicod of the Mindanao Association of Mining Engineers (MAEM) Inc. says that they should have been invited at the Mindanao environment summit recently held at the Ateneo de Davao University on Friday, August 5, so that they could show that "the big scale miners are the responsible miners." (Paulo C. Rizal/davaotoday.com)

Large-scale miners: We are responsible miners

As the Department of Environment and Natural Resources ?is still ?busy evaluating the mining companies in the Philippines, pro-mining groups insisted that the Mindanao mining companies abide and do responsible mining and they are open for talks with DENR.

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Read more about the article NDF to Duterte: Use of ‘command detonated’ landmines not violative of war protocols
NO MORE LANDMINES. President Rodrigo Duterte appeals to the Communist Party of the Philippines to stop using landmines as part of the Geneva Convention on the rules of war in the public wake of four soldiers who died in an encounter with the 8th Pulang Bagani Company of the New People's Army in Monkayo Town, Compostela Valley, Friday morning, August 5. The four soldiers are currently laid at state in Camp Apolinario, Panacan, Davao City. (Paulo C. Rizal/davaotoday.com)

NDF to Duterte: Use of ‘command detonated’ landmines not violative of war protocols

The National Democratic Front on Sunday, August 7 defended the use of command detonated explosives by the New People's Army and said that it does not violate Geneva Convention and the Ottawa Treaty.

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