Four months since her last visit to the province, Pres. Gloria Arroyo will be coming back for the National Peace Summit slated here Friday.
Bohol, as a counter-insurgency model, is chosen as the venue for the summit.
The National Peace Summit is organized for a consolidated peace and development agenda for Central Visayas.
This would be the president's second visit to Bohol this year. She was here in April for the inauguration of the Jagna wharf and the Bohol Circumferential Road Improvement Project phase 2.
The president will lead the consolidation of inputs to be gathered from the National Peace Summit that will start on Wednesday.
This was learned from Provincial Government Media Affairs (PGMA) and Bohol Poverty Reduction Management Office (BPRMO) Head Antonieto "Boy" Pernia.
According to Pernia, Arroyo will also inaugurate the newly-completed Loboc Children's Choir Palace and will leave immediately the next day.
All members of the National Security Council (NSC) will be here for the summit with all the governors and mayors in Central Visayas.
There will also be a series of meetings with military bigwigs in Central Visayas at the Bohol Tropics.
According to Pernia, the summit is an offshoot of Gov. Erico Aumentado’s talk at the National Defense College of the Philippines (NDCP) recently.
Aumentado presented a paper entitled "Poverty Reduction Program for Peace and Development: The Bohol Response to the Insurgency Challenge" during the 44th anniversary symposium of NDCP on August 10 at the Isla Ballroom I & II of the EDSA Shangri-La Hotel, Makati City.
The NSC has considered the Bohol experience as model in addressing the country's insurgency problem after Bohol's Peace and Order Council had been cited as among the country’s top.
The national government also aims to maintain the allegiance of rebel-returnees and prevent them from “returning to the mountains."
(Kit Bagaipo with reports from Angeline Valencia/PGMA)Linkback:
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