MILF DELEGATION LEAVES MINDANAO FOR THE HISTORIC SIGNING OF CAB Wednesday, Mar 26 2014 Written by Arland Abubakkar Print Email A delegation of about 600 members of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) headed by MILF Chair Al Haj Murad Ebrahim, Mohagher Iqbal, Chair of the MILF Peace Panel and Bangsamoro Transition Commission (BTC), Sammy A-Mansour Gambar, Chief of the Bangsamoro Islamic Armed Forces (BIAF), BTC Commissioners, MILF Peace Panel members and other members of the Moro Front’s Central Committee left Cotabato City on March 26 for Manila for the signing of the Comprehensive Agreement on the Bangsamoro (CAB). They boarded three chartered Philippine Airlines aircrafts. Other officials of the MILF came to Manila via Davao City and General Santos City. Among those who joined the delegation are members of the Bangsamoro Leadership and Management Institute (BLMI) headed by Executive Director Mahmod Ahmad, Bangsamoro Development Agency (BDA), members of the MILF Political and Information Committee, officials of local NGO development partners. The historic signing is set tomorrow March 27 at the Kalayaan Garden at Malacanang Palace Compound at 4PM. The CAB will be signed by GPH Peace Panel Chair Professor Miriam Coronel Ferrer and Chairman Iqbal in the presence of the Malaysian facilitator H.E. Tengku Dato AB Ghafar Tengku Mohammed with Malaysian Prime Minister Tun Najib Razak, President Benigno Aquino III and Chairman Murad Ebrahim as witnesses. Foreign dignitaries, heads of international development partners, members of the Philippine Senate, the House of Representatives, cabinet members, top officials of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP), Philippine National Police (PNP), ARMM officials headed by Regional Governor Mujiv Hataman, and other Mindanao local leaders are expected to attend. The CAB is a product of a 17-year peace negotiations and a compilation of all agreements entered into by and between the GPH and the MILF specifically the Framework Agreement on the Bangsamoro (FAB), and the Annexes on Transitional Arrangements and Modalities; Revenue Generation and Wealth Sharing, Power Sharing and Normalization and Bangsamoro Waters and Zone of Joint Cooperation. The agreement when fully implemented is expected to end the four decades of conflict in Mindanao that affected hundreds of thousands of inhabitants in the region since the late 60’s.
Posted on: Mon, 31 Mar 2014 18:28:36 +0000
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