COTABATO CITY – About 3,000 officials and members of the Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF) converged in Pikit town, Cotabato last weekend to celebrate the 27th anniversary of their peace agreement with the national government and pledge support for all ongoing government-MNLF peace programs.
On Sunday, MNLF Central Committee chairman Muslimin G. Sema said Saturday’s event not only celebrates the historic agreement signed on Sept. 2, 1996 with then president Fidel V. Ramos but also the closing of ranks with the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF), which now leads the Bangsamoro regional government for the last for years.
“We are together now in addressing peace and security issues, poverty and underdevelopment caused by armed conflicts,” Muslimin Sema, who is regional labor minister of the Bangsamoro region, said. — John Felix M. Unson
