The Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF), through its chief peace negotiator Mohagher Iqbal, has confirmed that it has already received from the Government of the Republic of the Philippines (GRP) a new proposal on the strand on territory in the ancestral domain aspect of the on-going peace talks.
Asked about the contents of the GRP proposal, Iqbal said, "they just enlarge the ring". He did not elaborate, however.
The proposal was contained in a letter signed by government chief peace negotiator, Sec. Silvestre Afable Jr., to his counterpart in the MILF, Iqbal, dated November 9. The letter, pursuant to established protocol, passed through the Malaysian government before the MILF received it.
The MILF objected to earlier government proposal that any additional area to the present jurisdiction of the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) can only be made possible through “constitutional process”.
The MILF described the offer as “conditional”, which trapped the MNLF when it agreed to such phrase in the GRP-MNLF Final Peace Agreement of 1996.
The MILF pursues the political line that it is better to have no agreement at all than by signing a bad agreement. Moreover, none of the MILF leaders especially in the central committee expressed any desire to serve the proposed Bangsamoro Juridical Entity (BJE) in any capacity. This is a reversed situation from that of the MNLF whose leaders scrambled to have seat in the ARMM or any position in the government. With reports from www.luwaran.com)
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We cross our fingers that the new GRP proposal on TERRITORY can now make the GRP-MILF peace talks move.
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