(Eagle News)–National Democratic Front of the Philippines negotiators cancelled their meeting with Palace officials because of security concerns, Communist Party of the Philippines founder Jose Maria Sison said.
In a statement, Sison said Fidel Agcaoili, chairman of the NDFP Negotiating Panel, Coni Ledesma, member, and Luis Jalandoni, senior adviser to the panel, after all, have been “threatened with arrest by military and police authorities of the Duterte regime and (President Rodrigo) Duterte himself has given no assurance of safety, and has publicly expressed lack of interest in any effort to resume the GRP-NDFP peace negotiations.”
He said NDFP negotiators “have also been warned of court summons being served as a result of Proclamation 374 designating the CPP and (New People’s Army) as terrorists.”
Peace Secretary Jesus Dureza said the NDFP negotiators were to meet him and Presidential Spokesperson Salvador Panelo in an informal meeting, as instructed by Duterte.
The President terminated peace talks with the Communists in November last year, following what he said were their atrocities that included the killing of a baby.
