{"id":155475,"date":"2018-03-07T04:19:00","date_gmt":"2018-03-07T09:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=155475"},"modified":"2018-03-07T04:19:00","modified_gmt":"2018-03-07T09:19:00","slug":"afp-always-for-peace-devt-spox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/03\/07\/afp-always-for-peace-devt-spox\/","title":{"rendered":"AFP always for peace, dev&#8217;t: spox"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_155477\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-155477\" style=\"width: 240px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/0-02-08-9bf7578bae4473f89c75db973bf06f2123ae7d2e387969bf73ed814b7422d982_full.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-155477\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/0-02-08-9bf7578bae4473f89c75db973bf06f2123ae7d2e387969bf73ed814b7422d982_full.jpg\" alt=\"&quot;The AFP is for peace and development and will always follow the policy direction of the President and political leaders,&quot; Brig. Gen. Bienvenido Datuin said in a message to reporters when sought to comment on President Rodrigo R. Duterte's announcement that he is willing to reconsider peace talks with the New People's Army (NPA) should a ceasefire be reached. (PNA photo) \" width=\"240\" height=\"180\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-155477\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">&#8220;The AFP is for peace and development and will always follow the policy direction of the President and political leaders,&#8221; Brig. Gen. Bienvenido Datuin said in a message to reporters when sought to comment on President Rodrigo R. Duterte&#8217;s announcement that he is willing to reconsider peace talks with the New People&#8217;s Army (NPA) should a ceasefire be reached. (PNA photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0&#8212; The Armed Forces of the Philippines\u2019 (AFP) efforts are always geared towards peace and development, its spokesperson said Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The AFP is for peace and development and will always follow the policy direction of the President and political leaders,&#8221; Brig. Gen. Bienvenido Datuin said in a message to reporters when sought to comment on President Rodrigo R. Duterte&#8217;s announcement that he is willing to reconsider peace talks with the New People&#8217;s Army (NPA) should a ceasefire be reached.<\/p>\n<p>Datuin, however, said the NPA and its political leadership should reciprocate their actions with sincerity once they declare a ceasefire and return to the negotiation table.<\/p>\n<p>Duterte, on Nov. 23, 2017, signed Proclamation No. 30, ordering the termination of all peace negotiations and meetings with the rebel group.<\/p>\n<p>The termination was an offshoot of rebel atrocities and other acts of violence against civilians and security forces.\u00a0<em><strong>(PNA)<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u00a0&#8212; The Armed Forces of the Philippines\u2019 (AFP) efforts are always geared towards peace and development, its spokesperson said Wednesday. &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":155477,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,95],"tags":[3244,47722,20034],"class_list":["post-155475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-news-ph","tag-armed-forces-of-the-philippines","tag-brig-gen-bienvenido-datuin","tag-new-peoples-army-npa","mauthors-priam-nepomuceno","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155475","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=155475"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155475\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/155477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}