By CAROL PAGADUAN-ARAULLO Streetwise | BusinessWorld Posted by Bulatlat.com “We look at our brothers and sisters in the NDF as not being enemies nor terrorists but rather as partners in trying to build this nation again…knowing their history of struggle…” – Alex Padilla, head, Philippine Government peace panel “It is an important endeavor to try…
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Hacienda Luisita Case Should Be Tackled in GRP-NDF Talks — Farmers
“Agrarian reform is the main content of the socio-economic reforms embodied in CASER,” the NDF’s Luis Jalandoni said, referring to the Comprehensive Agreement on Socio-Economic Reforms that is the second substantive agenda in the negotiations. “Through genuine agrarian reform, we shall break the land monopoly of a few big landlords and implement free land distribution to our landless farmers and everyone who is willing to till the land,” Jalandoni pointed out.”
In Oslo, a Chance for Peace Despite the Odds
By MACEL INGLES
“The challenges are great, but the possibilities for a peace agreement under the new presidency of Benigno Aquino are there,” Ambassador Ture Lundh of Norway’s foreign ministary said. “At the end of the day, however, it is the parties to the conflict that must prove decisiveness, boldness and political will to move forward, to achieve a just and lasting peace.”
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NDFP Reconsiders Visit to Manila of Nego Panel Chair Jalandoni
By Bulatlat.com In view of the negative attitude of GRP President Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino, Jr. to the proposed courtesy call of Chairperson Luis Jalandoni of the Negotiating Panel of the National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP) and the high risk facing Chairperson Jalandoni in going to the Philippines, the NDFP is reconsidering the visit…
Aquino Government’s Peace Adviser Dilly-Dallying on Peace Talks — NDFP
By RONALYN V. OLEA
The NDFP has reiterated its readiness to resume peace talks with the Government of the Republic of the Philippines (GRP) on the basis of The Hague Joint Declaration and subsequent agreements — Luis Jalandoni, chairman of the NDFP negotiating panel.
NDFP Questions Sincerity of Aquino Government in Pursuing Peace Talks but Still Open to Resumption
By RONALYN V. OLEA
“We are willing to go into serious peace talks aimed at addressing the root causes of the armed conflict through fundamental social, economic, political and constitutional reforms.” – NDFP
Arroyo Regime Scuttling Resumption of Peace Talks — NDF
The National Democratic Front accuses the Arroyo government of showing bad faith by not complying with an agreement that provides immunity guarantees to members of the NDF’s panel.
Reds, Philippine Government to Resume Peace Talks Next Month
MANILA — Formal peace negotiations between the Government of the Republic of the Philippines (GRP) and the National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP) will resume in August this year, Luis Jalandoni, chairman of the NDFP negotiating panel announced Wednesday. The negotiations were stalled in 2004 after the Philippine government insisted on a final peace…
GMA’s Peace is ‘Peace of the Graveyard’ – Jalandoni
What does NDFP chief political consultant Jose Maria Sison’s arrest imply for the GRP-NDFP peace negotiations? Are localized peace talks really possible? Bulatlat interviewed Luis Jalandoni, chairman of the NDFP Negotiating Panel, on these. BY ALEXANDER MARTIN REMOLLINO Bulatlat Vol. VII, No. 30, September 2-8, 2007 As Luis Jalandoni – chief negotiator of the National…
Akbayan Rep’s Bill Hit: Discriminatory and Anti-Human Rights
Akbayan Rep. Loreta Ann Rosales has found herself in a hot seat for pushing a consolidated bill in the House that, according to the leading human rights alliance Selda, will end all expectations by human rights victims of justice and indemnification. BY AUBREY SC MAKILAN Bulatlat.com The Society of Ex-Detainees Against Detention and for Amnesty…
Talks on Social and Economic Reforms Will Be Tougher — Jalandoni
A few days after the issuance of the Oslo Joint Statement by the Government of the Republic of the Philippines (GRP) and the National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP), following the conclusion last Feb. 14 of the recent round of formal talks between the two parties, Bulatlat.com’s Alexander Martin Remollino (AMR) interviewed NDFP chief…