{"id":169494,"date":"2018-07-06T00:21:59","date_gmt":"2018-07-06T04:21:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=169494"},"modified":"2018-07-06T00:21:59","modified_gmt":"2018-07-06T04:21:59","slug":"door-for-peace-remains-open-palace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/07\/06\/door-for-peace-remains-open-palace\/","title":{"rendered":"Door for peace remains open: Palace"},"content":{"rendered":"
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FILE: President Rodrigo R. Duterte, Presidential Peace Adviser Jesus Dureza, and Special Assistant to the President Christopher “Bong” Go (Presidential Photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0— The door for the resumption of peace talks with the National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP)\u00a0is still open subject to the conditions set by President Rodrigo R. Duterte, Malaca\u00f1ang said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe door for peace talks remains open provided that PRRD\u2019s conditions are meet,\u201d Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque said in a statement following the Command conference held Wednesday night.<\/p>\n

Roque said one of the conditions is that the coalition government demanded by Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) founding chairman Jose Maria Sison should not be part of the peace talks.<\/p>\n

He said Duterte\u2019s call for the holding of the talks in the country is another condition, along with the\u00a0demand to stop collection of the so-called revolutionary tax.<\/p>\n

Roque said cessation of hostilities in which the New People\u2019s Army (NPA) are \u201cencamped\u201d in designated areas should be observed before resuming the talks.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Roque said “localized” peace talks may be pursued by local government units (LGUs) \u201cprovided they do not concede any aspect of government and pursuant to guidelines to be agreed upon by the Cabinet cluster on security\u201d.<\/p>\n

According to Presidential Peace Adviser Jesus Dureza, the \u201cway forward\u201d in the stalled peace talks was decided following the consolidations of various positions expressed during the command conference conveyed by Duterte in Malaca\u00f1ang.<\/p>\n

Dureza said Duterte has also expressed his wish that Norway continues as facilitator in the event the peace talks are resumed.<\/p>\n

Last month, Duterte decided to postpone the scheduled June 28 resumption of peace negotiations between the government and the NDFP to allow the government to \u201cengage the bigger peace table, the general public\u201d.<\/p>\n

During the postponement, all backchannel talks are also suspended to allow the review of all signed agreements between the GRP and communist rebels.<\/p>\n

Duterte has repeatedly invited self-exiled Sison to go home to talk peace within a\u00a060-day window period.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

MANILA\u00a0— The door for the resumption of peace talks with the National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP)\u00a0is still open …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":169508,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,95],"tags":[38957,11249,13944],"class_list":["post-169494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-news-ph","tag-communist-party-of-the-philippines-cpp","tag-jose-maria-sison","tag-president-rodrigo-r-duterte","mauthors-jelly-musico","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169494","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=169494"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169494\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/169508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}