STREETWISE: Why peace talks hang in the balance
Streetwise By Carol Pagaduan-Araullo Why peace talks still hang in the balance And so it has come to this. After stoking such high expectations about the resumption of peace talks between the Government of the Republic of the Philippines (GRP) and what the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) considers the top “security threat” in […]
PEACE TALKS NECESSARY TO ADDRESS MODE OF CEASEFIRE–NDFP
THE National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP) said its guerillas can still use command-detonated landmines as there is no valid ceasefire between the New People’s Army (NPA) and Government of the Republic of the Philippines (GRP) soldiers and police forces. In a statement following President Rodrigo Duterte’s latest threat of withdrawing from the peace […]
STREETWISE: Dark clouds over GPH-NDFP peace talks
By Carol P. Araullo PRESIDENT Rodrigo Duterte’s dramatic declaration of a unilateral ceasefire vis a vis the CPP-NPA-NDFP to usher in the peace talks slated to resume on August 20 was, for all intents and purposes, one of the high points of his one-and-a-half-hour-long State of the Nation Address (SONA) last July 25. He said it […]
Youth, sectoral groups form human chain for peace
YOUTH and sectoral groups formed a “human chain” at Mendiola, Manila last Friday to support the resumption of the formal peace talks between the Government of the Republic of the Philippines (GRP) and the National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP). The human chain is part of the metro-wide action led by Kapayapaan, a group […]
Duterte approves new ‘inclusive’ peace roadmap
PRESIDENT Rodrigo Duterte has approved the new “inclusive roadmap to peace,” Presidential Adviser on the Peace Process Jesus Dureza said in a press conference, Tuesday. “There will be inclusivity in Duterte’s roadmap to peace,” Dureza said. He explained that the approved “inclusive roadmap” will go over the engagements with the Bangsamoro factions, the National Democratic Front of the […]
Cabinet secretary joins human chain for peace
Department of Agrarian Reform Secretary Rafael Mariano joined this morning’s Human Chain for Just and Lasting Peace at the Quezon Memorial Circle. In anticipation of the resumption of formal peace negotiations between the Government of the Republic of the Philippines (GRP) and the National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP) in Oslo, Norway in August, […]
Karapatan on the postponement of the GRP-NDFP peace talks
KARAPATAN secretary general Cristina Palabay talks about the postponement of the resumption of formal talks between the Government of the Republic of the Philippines (GRP) and the National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP). Earlier this week, the GRP announced that it will ask the NDFP for a month-long postponement to effect the release of NDFP […]
GRP to ask NDFP for peace talks postponement
THE GOVERNMENT peace panel has decided to postpone the resumption of its formal peace talks with the National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP) anew to August 20 to 27. Government of the Republic of the Philippines (GRP) chief peace negotiator and Department of Labor and Employment Secretary Silvestre Bello III told Kodao Productions this […]
GRP completes panel lineup
MANILA—The Government of the Republic of the Philippines (GRP) has completed its peace panel in time for the anticipated resumption for formal talks with the National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP) later this month, its chief negotiator in an interview said. GRP negotiating panel chief and Department of Labor and Employment Secretary Silvestre Bello […]
Bello on moving forward with the peace talks
CHIEF government negotiator Silvestre Bello III speaks about their impending resumption of formal talks with the National Democratic Front of the Philippines. In this video, Bello warns about ‘enemies of peace’ who may attempt to derail the talks to embarrass President Rodrigo Duterte. He also mentions those who have ideological disputes with the NDFP, war hawks and […]