Presidential Peace Adviser Jesus Dureza speaks with former Cotabato mayor and a Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF) leader Muslimin Sema about a possible merger between the MNLF and Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) during their meeting at the Apo View Hotel in Davao City on Tuesday, August 9, 2016. (Karl Norman Alonzo/PPD)
DAVAO CITY – The negotiating panels of both the government (GPH) and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front are holding a strategic workshop here to understand the processes needed to pass a law to replace the Bangsamoro Basic Law.
In a press conference upon his arrival from the first round of the formal peace negotiations with the National Democratic Front of the Philippines, Presidential Peace Adviser Jesus Dureza on Monday, August 29, said he will be joining the workshop here where there will be inputs to aid both panels to understand the process and review the mechanisms that needs to be continued.
He said after the workshop they will concentrate in constituting the group that will work again for the replacement of the failed BBL, “the enabling law that will put in place the mechanisms for the implementation of the past agreements with the MILF, and also the (Moro National Liberation Front) and the other sectors.”
Dureza said they will also discuss the process of convergence of the agreements in the 1996 Final Peace Agreement with the MNLF, the Comprehensive Agreement of the Bangsamoro in 2014.
“Tapos na yung final peace agreement pero malaki pa yung problema. How to implement them?” he said.
The strategic workshop came two weeks after both parties agreed to pursue a new peace roadmap that will “ensure inclusivity” in the Bangsamoro Peace Process in a two-day talks of the implementing panels which were launched in Kuala Lumpur,Malaysia on August 13 to Agust 14.
He said on August 31 they will be meeting with the peace and development advocates of the MNLF, a group of MNLF chairman Nur Misuari who were involved in the implementation of the peace agreement.
He said during the meeting he will get updates on how the government can engage with Misuari “personally”. (davaotoday.com)
