Monday, January 5, 2015

Peace Adviser wants clear and timebound talks with the rebels



DAVAO CITY, Jan. 5 (PIA) Office of the Presidential Adviser on the Peace Process chief Teresita Quintos-Deles wants to pursue the peace talks with communist rebels on the basis of a doable and time-bound agenda.

She confirmed that friends of the process have been working to bring both parties to the negotiating table to explore possible parameters for the talks to resume.

Quintos-Deles said though the feedback from the communist party leadership is positive, there remains matters to be clarified in order to ensure that the peace process will not go on a major impasse.

“As we gave repeatedly stated in the past, we want to resume talks based on doable and time-bound agenda,” she said.

Quintos-Deles said that the recent positive response of Jose Maria Sison for the renewed talks after the Papal visit this January indicates that the common ground between the two parties which may be broadening towards the achievement of a just and durable peace that the Filipino people desire.

The negotiations broke down several times as the Communist Party of the Philippines- National Democratic Front-New People’s Army panel insisted of several preconditions before the peace talks could go on. (PIA 11-Joey Sem G. Dalumpines)

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