This has always been where the talks get snagged,” said Prof. Rudy B. Rodil said in the forum.
In a text message Tuesday, Mohager Iqbal, MILF peace panel chair, concurred with Rodil’s statement.
“That is correct. That is our problem. Their draft (on the compact agreement) has no basis,” Iqbal said.
This reporter tried to contact GPH peace panel chair Marvic Leonen through texts and calls but was “out of coverage area.”
Rodil also noted the “non-implementation of most of the major points in the final peace agreement” between government and the Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF) signed in 1996, and yet the government “now expects to reach an agreement with the MILF.”
The forum dubbed “Forum on Republic of Ireland-Mindanao Peace Process Experience” was held Monday at the Mindanao University of Science and Technology, Barangay Lapasan, this city. The forum tackled lessons from the peace process in Ireland and the just-stalled GPH-MILF talks.
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