Speed in creating its Basic Law and better
public information on the peace agreement are needed said a monitoring
team in its report. This as the parties to the Bangsamoro framework
agreement remain committed to achieving peace in Mindanao, although the
stakeholders raised issues in the process, it said.
In its first public report, the Third-party
monitoring team (TPMT) to the Bangsamoro framework agreement cited the
“need for speed” to complete the Basic Law “as soon as possible.”
Also, the TPMT said “stakeholders underlined the need for deeper public
information” about the framework agreement and its implications.
“It was also suggested that it would be important for the parties to
strengthen their outreach and public messaging to a wider audience,
including for example local government units, the ulama and the Catholic
Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines, civil society... and the
private sector and chambers of commerce,” the TPMT noted.
The monitoring team also said stakeholders raised the “inclusiveness of
the process”: how it would affect the 1996 peace deal with the Moro
National Liberation Front, and the “likely tenor of the future
Bangsamoro assembly and government.”
The TMPT was set up by the Philippine government and the Moro Islamic
liberation Front (MILF) to monitor the implementation of the peace deal
between the two parties.
With the last of the four annexes completed only in January, “there is
not a great deal that can be said at this stage about the implementation
of the agreements,” TPMT said. -- Mikhail Franz E. Flores
source: Businessworld
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