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OIC asked to complete review of peace pact with MNLF
« on: May 29, 2015, 01:24:27 PM »
By By Edith Regalado and John Unson | Philippine Star – 5 hours ago
 

COTABATO CITY – The Philippine government is asking the 57-nation Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) to finally complete the tripartite review process of the implementation of the 1996 peace agreement with the Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF).

The review – snagged  for several years as government had its hands full with the peace process with rival faction Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) – tackles how the 1996 peace pact with the MNLF has been implemented and centers on the three remaining issues raised by the MNLF: establishment of a provisional government,  expansion of territory,  and sharing of minerals.
Also, leaders of both the MILF and the MNLF are expected to talk about the draft Bangsamoro Basic Law (BBL) at the two-day conference of the OIC in Kuwait starting today.

Although the two Philippine Muslim groups are at odds, their leaders – Al-Haj Murad Ebrahim of the MILF, ex-Cotabato City mayor Muslimin Sema of the MNLF, and lawyer Randolph Parcasio, representative of MNLF founder Nur Misuari – will sit together in a unifying sideline solidarity talk during the 42nd Session of the Council of Foreign Ministers.

The OIC organizers permitted Murad to talk about the prospects of the Mindanao peace process and the Moro communities under the administration of President Aquino.

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Re: OIC asked to complete review of peace pact with MNLF
« Reply #1 on: May 29, 2015, 01:24:59 PM »
The MNLF, which forged a peace pact with government on Sept. 2, 1996, has been an observer to the OIC, which is comprised of more than 50 Muslim states, including petroleum-exporting nations in the Middle East and North Africa.

Sema told The STAR that the presence of MNLF and MILF officials in the OIC’s annual foreign ministers conclave is a big boost to efforts meant to address the decades-old Moro issue hounding Southern Mindanao since the 1970s.

“Our presence here in Kuwait to represent the Bangsamoro people, to agree on how we can strengthen our bid for genuine peace in the homeland is providential. We must not hesitate to agree with each other on how to push the Mindanao peace process forward as one big family,” Sema said.

The OIC has been trying for more than three years now to foster MNLF-MILF solidarity to hasten the resolution of the quest for self-governance by Moro communities in the country. – With Jose Rodel Clapano

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