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Read more about the article FULL TEXT| Reply of the NDFP to the Opening Statement of Presidential Peace Adviser Jesus Dureza
Officials of the National Democratic Front of the Philippines peace panel during the opening ceremony for the 4th round of the GRP-NDFP peace talks in Noordwijk, the Netherlands on Monday, April 3, 2017. From left to right: NDFP peace panel chairperson Fidel Agcaoili, Senior Adviser Luis Jalandoni, and Chief Political Consultant Jose Maria Sison. (Zea Io Ming C. Capistrano/davaotoday.com)

FULL TEXT| Reply of the NDFP to the Opening Statement of Presidential Peace Adviser Jesus Dureza

The GRP’s decision not to participate in the 5th round of formal talks threatens to squander the goodwill and the gains that have already been achieved in the peace negotiations in the past nine months, especially in the crafting of a substantive agreement on social and economic reforms.

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Read more about the article FULL TEXT| Opening statement of Peace Adviser Jesus G. Dureza on the 5th round of GRP-NDFP peace talks
Presidential Peace Adviser Sec. Jesus Dureza. Ace Morandante/PPD

FULL TEXT| Opening statement of Peace Adviser Jesus G. Dureza on the 5th round of GRP-NDFP peace talks

While we have gone this far and the Filipino people are rooting/supporting us, there are challenges that we must together address as we meet here today on the scheduled 5th round of peace negotiations.

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Read more about the article GRP cancels 5th round of talks due to ‘lack of compelling reason’
Presidential Peace Adviser Jesus Dureza and government peace panel chair Silvestre Bello III announced Sunday night, May 28 (around 1am Monday Philippine time) that the government is maintaining its position that it will not participate in the fifth round of peace talks with the National Democratic Front of the Philippines scheduled to take place at the Radisson Blu Palace Hotel in Noordwijk Aan Zee, The Netherlands. (Zea Io Ming C. Capistrano/davaotoday.)

GRP cancels 5th round of talks due to ‘lack of compelling reason’

The government peace panel has finally sealed the fate of the fifth round of talks by withdrawing from it.

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Read more about the article Gov’t, Reds told: work harder for peace
PANEL TO PANEL. Peace panels from the Philippine government and the National Democratic Front of the Philippines, together with the facilitators from the Royal Norwegian Government, resume their session on Sunday morning, May 28 to continue on sorting out how to push through with the scheduled fifth round of talks at the Radisson Blu Palace Hotel in Noordwijk Aan Zee in the Netherlands. (Zea Io Ming C. Capistrano/davaotoday.com)

Gov’t, Reds told: work harder for peace

After an impasse on the fifth round of talks on the first day of the supposed opening ceremony yesterday, members of the peace panels from the government and the National Democratic Front of the Philippines gathered in a Eucharistic mass officiated by a Filipino Archbishop here Sunday, May 28.

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