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GRP prevents resumption of
peace negotiations by violating JASIG and trying to impose DDR framework
Fidel V. Agcaoili
Member and Spokesperson
Negotiating Panel
National Democratic Front of the Philippines
September 4, 2009
The officials of the reactionary Government of the Republic of the
Philippines (GRP), including the de facto president Gloria M. Arroyo,
executive secretary Eduardo Ermita and presidential adviser Avelino Razon,
should stop issuing press statements that that they are willing to resume
formal talks in the peace negotiations between the GRP and the National
Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP).
The plain and simple fact is that all these hypocrites are preventing the
resumption of the formal talks by continuing to violate the Joint
Agreement on Safety and Immunity Guarantees (JASIG) and refusing to comply
with it and remove the impediments that they have imposed on NDFP
panelists, consultants and other persons protected by JASIG.
They continue to use false criminal charges to abduct, imprison, torture
and murder NDFP consultants and other JASIG-protected persons in the
Philippines, to blackmail and pressure NDFP panelists and consultants who
are abroad and even to request foreign governments to blacklist, raid,
arrest and detain them as previously done in The Netherlands in 2007.
The GRP has not complied with the JASIG and June 15 agreement but has
instead maneuvered to undermine and cast away the JASIG and aggravate the
impediments on NDFP panelists and consultants. Thus, the NDFP has demanded
that the GRP and NDFP panels, together with their respective lawyers, meet
in Oslo in order to put in writing the expeditious methods of complying
with the JASIG and removing the aforesaid impediments.
But the vicious and arrogant response of the GRP has been to inform the
NDFP that there can be no meeting of the negotiating panels to focus on
compliance with JASIG, unless the NDFP agrees first of all to set aside
the negotiation of social, economic and political reforms and give highest
priority to the discussion of "disarmament, demobilization and
reintegration" (DDR) through the premature formation of a working group on
the end of hostilities and disposition of forces (EHDF).
The GRP has the temerity to suggest that there can be no compliance with
JASIG of any kind and no formal talks in the peace negotiations unless the
NDFP makes a commitment first of all to form the working group on EHDF as
the key to the destruction and pacification of the armed revolutionary
movement of the people.
The GRP is showing that it has no interest in peace negotiations as a way
of addressing the roots of the civil war through agreements on social,
economic and political reforms. It continues to violate JASIG and seeks to
impose the DDR framework on the NDFP. It is challenging the revolutionary
forces of the Filipino people to intensify their armed revolution for
national liberation and democracy. ###
Website: http://www.ndfp.net
Email address: ndf@casema.nl
Telephone:31-30-2310431
Fax: 31-84-7589930
Mailing address: Amsterdamsestraatweg 50, NL-3513 AG Utrecht, Netherlands
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