The Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) has told the Arroyo administration of never to act alone in addressing the Bangsamoro Problem, because it will fail miserably and the suffering will not stop in Mindanao. Muhammad Ameen, chairperson of the MILF Secretariat, was reacting to confirmed report that the government is filing a bill in Congress seeking to enhance and amend the law creating the present Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) and offer this to the MILF.

“The MILF will not accept any autonomy offer of whatever package or name and is a waste of time and smacks of bad faith”, he stressed.
“This is not negotiation anymore but imposition.”

He reiterated earlier MILF policy that it will never accept any imposed solution to the Bangsamoro Problem from the government, except through a negotiated political settlement by the Parties with third party facilitation.

Recently, President Arroyo was addressing the Bishops-Ulama Conference and assured them that the ancestral domain aspect of the Tripoli Agreement of 2001 will be addressed soon, thereby leaving the political part to be discussed by the Parties.

The footage of this address had been shown on television recently.
Many cabinet secretaries are frequently coming out with press statements that the peace deal with the MILF will soon be signed, but these pronouncements are contrary to what actually is happening to the talks. The government keeps on scheduling and postponing the talks.

Analysts described these statements as “dribbling” and aimed at attracting foreign investments.

In a related development, another analyst told Luwaran that President Arroyo does not fully grasp what is meant by solving the Bangsamoro Problem with a “new formula” as stipulated by the Tripoli Agreement of 2001.

The new formula totally excludes the format shown in the ARMM, which represents the “old formula”, and if the government does this again, then it is violating the agreement and is not sincere in the negotiation.

The analyst said the president is getting the wrong advice from his cabinet secretaries who are her front men in the negotiation like Secretaries Norberto Gonzales, Eduardo Ermita, and Ronaldo Puno.

Source: Luwaran

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