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Third round of peace negotiations, disappointing�JMS
"Disappointing!" This was how NDFP negotiating panel senior political adviser Jose Maria Sison described the third round of formal talks held in Oslo, Norway on June 22-25. The two sides agreed on some important matters but the GRP peace panel refused to issue a joint statement. Based on the conduct of their panel and the words and actions of government officials outside the talks, the GRP merely entered the third round of negotiations to put up a pretense before Arroyo's inauguration as president and conjure the illusion that it was still interested in the peace talks.
Macapagal-Arroyo is so full of herself and brazenly wants to impress on everyone that she has no need for the peace negotiations with the revolutionary movement, says Sison. He warned that if the GRP does not take serious steps to implement the agreements reached in the third round of formal talks, relations between the two sides may deteriorate.
The GRP has declared that its refusal to undertake any move to have the CPP, NPA and Sison removed from the US "terrorist" listing was non-negotiable. Only 10 political prisoners out of the 32 whose release the GRP has promised have been freed. This is from a total of 300 political detainees. Nothing has likewise come out of Arroyo's pledge to facilitate the indemnification of victims of the Marcos dictatorship.
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 07 July 2004
English Edition
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