By Michael Lim Ubac
Philippine Daily Inquirer
Giving up its claim to have Palawan included in their so-called Bangsamoro autonomous region was one of the “significant concessions†that the secessionist Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) gave during negotiations for a framework peace agreement, President Aquino said Wednesday.
Speaking at a forum of the Foreign Correspondents Club of the Philippines, Aquino disclosed the decision of the MILF negotiating panel to give up the inclusion of Palawan’s southern municipalities to the soon-to-be-expanded Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM).
“I think it is a significant concession on the part of the MILF,†he said.
The President noted the MILF claim that there were people in Palawan who could trace their ancestry to the areas they claimed as belonging to the Bangsamoro, the rebels’ preferred term for the Muslims of Mindanao.
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