From the Website of MILF
links: http://www.luwaran.com/home/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=2538:gph-milf-peace-panels-to-meet-in-kuala-lumpur-today&catid=81:news&Itemid=457
GPH, MILF Peace Panels to meet in Kuala Lumpur today
February 13, 2012:Peace negotiators of the Government of the
Philippines (GPH) and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) will
start their 3-day peace negotiation in the booming capital of Malaysia
from February 13-15 with the hope of resolving the stickiest points
encountered by the parties in recent months.
Expected to come for the talks, on the side of the GPH, are Dean
MarvicLeonen, Prof. Miriam Ferrer-Coronel, Businessman SenenBacani, and
Dr. Hamid Barra, and Ms. YasminBusran-Lao; and on the MILF, Chairman
MohagherIqbal, Atty. Datu Michael Mastura, Maulana Bobby Alonto, Prof.
Abhoud Syed Lingga, and Abdulla Camlian.
Also joining the MILF peace delegation are Jun Mantawil, Mike
Pasigan, Mhajirin Ali, and Atty. RaissaJajurie, who will sit in the MILF
Secretariat. At present the MILF Secretariat is lacking with one
member. Mr. OndelMeling, the second man in the group, is still
bed-ridden and has not recuperated since 2006 after suffering from a
serious stroke due to diabetes.
Datu Antonio Kinoc, an alternate member of the MILF Peace Panel, is
not also joining the group. He would only be required to join the peace
delegation when a clear agenda on indigenous peoples are up for
discussion, especially when his counterpart in the GPH, Mayor Ramon
Piang Sr. is also required by the GPH to attend the session.
During the 24th meeting of the peace panels last January 9-11, the
issues that prominently preoccupied the parties are on power-sharing,
wealth-sharing, and interim mechanism. They managed to come to
understanding, short of a formal decision, on the powers exclusively
exercised by the central government, but they lacked time to deal on
powers which are concurrent to the central government and state
government, and powers to be exercised by the state government. They,
however, intensely discussed the interim arrangement for several hours,
but it proved to be a very difficult nut to crack. Their respective
roadmaps have many things in common but they differed substantially on
timeframes and the need for mechanism that would ensure perpetuity of
the agreement.
The agenda of the current session of the parties, the 25th, are not
yet disclosed, but it is expected that they would continue the
discussion of the sticky points enumerated above.
An effort by Luwaran to get some input from the MILF peace delegation
failed. They explained that it is against established protocol of the
negotiation to divulge any part of the negotiation, except when the
parties agreed to disclose it. A case in point is the Report of the
International Monitoring Team (IMT) on the Albarka Incident on October
18, 2011 where at least 19 soldiers were killed in an encounter with
MILF fighters. The MILF peace panel wanted it declassified, but the GPH
preferred it to remain a classified document. The Malaysian
facilitator‘s position is to let it remain an internal document to the
parties.
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