{"id":93261,"date":"2017-03-09T03:55:19","date_gmt":"2017-03-09T08:55:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=93261"},"modified":"2017-03-09T03:55:19","modified_gmt":"2017-03-09T08:55:19","slug":"dnd-welcomes-back-channeling-moves-with-ndf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/03\/09\/dnd-welcomes-back-channeling-moves-with-ndf\/","title":{"rendered":"DND welcomes back-channeling moves with NDF"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong><\/strong><\/em><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_93262\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-93262\" style=\"width: 960px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/17022162_257144811398006_6728099183176724547_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-93262\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/17022162_257144811398006_6728099183176724547_n.jpg\" alt=\"The Department of National Defense (DND) gladly welcomed back-channeling moves that aim to restart the stalled peace talks between the government and National Democratic Front (NDF) (Photo: Delfin Lorenzana\/Facebook)\" width=\"960\" height=\"540\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/17022162_257144811398006_6728099183176724547_n.jpg 960w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/17022162_257144811398006_6728099183176724547_n-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/17022162_257144811398006_6728099183176724547_n-768x432.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-93262\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Department of National Defense (DND) gladly welcomed back-channeling moves that aim to restart the stalled peace talks between the government and National Democratic Front (NDF) (Photo: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/dellorenzana\/photos\/a.186247341821087.1073741828.186212171824604\/257144811398006\/?type=3&amp;theater\">Delfin Lorenzana\/Facebook<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA\u2014The Department of National Defense (DND) gladly welcomed back-channeling moves that aim to restart the stalled peace talks between the government and National Democratic Front (NDF)<\/p>\n<p>DND Secretary Delfin Lorenzana made this statement during the first-ever &#8220;Kapihan sa Kampo&#8221; held at the Honor Hall of the National Defense College of the Philippines, Camp Aguinaldo, Quezon City on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>This was in reference to Presidential Adviser to the Peace Process Jesus Dureza&#8217;s trip to Europe Wednesday to do back-channeling moves with NDF negotiators Benito and Wilma Tiamzon and Vicente Ladlad.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;So yesterday, Secretary Dureza left for Europe again and last night, we allowed the departure of Benito and Wilma Tiamzon and Mr. Ladlad to also do some back-channeling. A lot of people are urging us, that before we will go back to the formal peace talks, back-channeling must first take place so that we will already have a concrete proposal from each side acceptable by both sides,&#8221; Lorenzana said in Filipino.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to restarting negotiations with the NDF, President Rodrigo Duterte earlier said he wants the rebels to sign a bilateral ceasefire agreement with the government, stop extortion attempts against businessmen and release all their prisoners and hostages, especially the military personnel.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We in the military and the defense welcome this development because we want to stop the fighting in the hinterlands and in the rural areas so we can bring development,&#8221; the DND chief stressed.<\/p>\n<p>The Duterte administration on Feb. 4 suspended its peace talks with the NDF in wake of several unprovoked attacks by rebel forces against military and civilian targets early that month.<\/p>\n<p>These offensives resulted in the death of six unarmed troopers and capture of three and destruction of millions worth of farm, engineering and commercial equipment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u2014The Department of National Defense (DND) gladly welcomed back-channeling moves that aim to restart the stalled peace talks between the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":93262,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,1145,16,95],"tags":[3413,11283],"class_list":["post-93261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-headline","category-news","category-news-ph","tag-department-of-national-defense","tag-national-democratic-front","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93261","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=93261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93261\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/93262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}