Bangsamoro transition body tiptoes around Sabah issue
By Nikko Dizon
Should the ongoing conflict in Sabah be tackled by the Bangsamoro Transition Commission?
Should the ongoing conflict in Sabah be tackled by the Bangsamoro Transition Commission?
Senator Gregorio Honasan said the Philippines and Malaysia should talk to resolve the entry of 300 Filipino followers of the Sultanate of Sulu in the Sabah region to prevent an international incident involving armed skirmishes.
Amid renewed optimism over peace and development in Mindanao, a seven-member delegation of parliamentarians from the European Union (EU) have announced they are going to the region this week to express their support for the Philippine peace process.
Japan has committed to develop the future Bangsamoro territory, and pour more investments in the country, Foreign Affairs Secretary Albert del Rosario said on Thursday.
Elated by a preliminary peace deal with Moro rebels, European and Asian leaders have committed to move the peace forward in Mindanao and develop the region, President Benigno Aquino III said Tuesday night.
Malacañang said on Sunday that the broad, international support for the framework agreement between the Philippines and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front should speed up the completion of a final peace pact.
The guest list for the signing of the Bangsamoro deal in Malacañang on Oct. 15 indicates the government’s intention to give its preliminary peace agreement with the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) international recognition.
The United States did not act as a puppeteer pulling the strings in the peace negotiations between the government and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF), according to chief government negotiator Marvic Leonen.
Peace negotiations between the government and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front will resume Monday in Kuala Lumpur amid high expectations from the international community they will be able to hammer out an agreement.
After a three-month hiatus, peace negotiations between the Philippine government and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) will resume on December 5, a rebel official said.
MANILA, Philippines—Philippine communist rebel negotiators met a special Norwegian envoy on Monday in a fresh bid to reopen stalled peace talks to end a four-decade war with the government, aides said. The rebels’ chief negotiator, Luis Jalandoni, met the envoy at the embassy in Manila but details of the talks were not disclosed, the insurgent [...]
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia – Philippine government and Muslim separatist negotiators met Monday in Malaysia as part of efforts to draft a peace agreement to end a decades-old insurgency in the southern Philippines. A Malaysian official at a hotel in the capital Kuala Lumpur, where the two-day meeting between Manila and the Moro Islamic Liberation Force [...]
