{"id":43993,"date":"2015-03-04T14:55:58","date_gmt":"2015-03-04T06:55:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=43993"},"modified":"2015-03-05T02:33:45","modified_gmt":"2015-03-04T18:33:45","slug":"iqbal-dont-demand-and-dictate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2015\/03\/04\/iqbal-dont-demand-and-dictate\/","title":{"rendered":"Iqbal: Don’t demand and dictate"},"content":{"rendered":"
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MILF Chief Peace Negotiator Mohagher Iqbal at Thursday’s (Feb 12, 2015) Senate hearing on the Mamasapano clash (Photo courtesy of Sen. Grace Poe’s Facebook page)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

MANILA — For\u00a0Mohagher Iqbal, chief negotiator of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF), making demands \u00a0is not negotiating.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe need to respect each other. When you make demands, you are no longer negotiating. You are dictating,” Iqbal said\u00a0responding to the conditions set by\u00a0Cagayan de Oro Rep. Rufus Rodriguez for the approval of the Bangsamore Basic Law (BBL) draft.<\/p>\n

Rodriguez, chair of the House ad hoc committee on the BBL said on Monday that \u00a0the passage of the bill that aims to create a substate in Mindanao depends on the surrender of\u00a0firearms seized by Moro fighters during the Mamasapano incident.<\/p>\n

He added that MILF should surrender the fighters involved in the incident and give up\u00a0Filipino terrorist, Basit Usman who escaped during the encounter.<\/p>\n

Iqbal stressed that many agreements have specific set of protocols as to how each party would deal with each other.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur relationship is based on the documents we signed,” he said.<\/p>\n

He also added that the MILF will remain a revolutionary group until the full realization of the peace agreement their group signed with the government.<\/p>\n

Iqbal reiterated that based on the agreements, the group’s relationship with the government is “political and not legal.”<\/p>\n

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MANILA — For\u00a0Mohagher Iqbal, chief negotiator of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF), making demands \u00a0is not negotiating. \u201cWe need …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":42283,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1145,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headline","category-news-ph","mauthors-lei-fontamillas","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43993","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\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43993"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43993\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}