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(Eagle News) – President Rodrigo Duterte said that a ceasefire with the communist rebels will not happen in the remaining year of his term. In his Talk to the Nation on Monday night, Dec. 7, Duterte dismissed any possibility of allowing a ceasefire with the New People’s Army rebels as he vowed to identify the NPAs in politics. “There will be no ceasefire ever again under my term — under my term ko pagka-Presidente. […]
(Eagle news) — President Rodrigo Duterte said that he would no longer consider holding “peace talks” with the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) because of the New People’s Army (NPA) attacks done on soldiers who were simply accompanying government workers delivering food any money amid the COVID-19 crisis. “There is no more peace talks to talk about,” Duterte said on Monday, April 27, during a late night press briefing in Malacanang. “It is […]
(Eagle News)–Communist Party of the Philippines founder Jose Maria Sison on Friday, Jan. 24, welcomed President Rodrigo Duterte’s desire to resume peace negotiations. In a statement, Sison said it was, however, “best for the (Philippine government) and the (National Democratic Front of the Philippines) to prepare” for his “one-on-one meeting” with Duterte “by formally resuming the peace negotiations and accomplishing the interim peace agreement in a neutral venue abroad.” According to Sison, in the first […]
(Eagle News)–Authorities on Friday, Dec. 28, slammed Communist Party of the Philippines founder Jose Maria Sison for refusing to have a one-on-one talk with President Rodrigo Duterte in the Philippines. In a statement, Presidential Spokesperson Salvador Panelo said Sison’s refusal “betrays his insincerity.” Panelo reiterated Duterte’s guarantee that Sison “will not be arrested upon his arrival and after the meeting he can freely leave for Netherlands when he so desires.” Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana shared […]
(Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte has reiterated his proposal for Communist Party of the Philippines founder Jose Maria Sison to come home from The Netherlands where he is in exile to talk. In a televised press conference in Malacanang on the 51st anniversary of the CPP, Presidential Spokesperson Salvador Panelo said the President in particular dared Sison to have a “one-on-one talk” with the chief executive, with “no government panel involved, no panel on […]
(Eagle News)–President Rodrigo Duterte is still open to reviving peace talks with Communist rebels. Presidential Spokesperson Salvador Panelo made the statement days after the President directed the military to crush the New People’s Army and keep the country safe. The President “always leaves…the window ajar for any peace negotiation..but will not allow..assaults against our forces,” he said. Earlier, Duterte directed Labor Secretary Silvestre Bello III to fly to The Netherlands, where Communist Party of the […]
(Eagle News)–The Palace on Monday, Dec. 16, questioned the sincerity of the New People’s Army following the Eastern Samar attack that saw at least two people killed. “When you do that, your sincerity is in question with respect to peace talks,” Presidential Spokesperson Salvador Panelo said. Panelo made the statement after President Rodrigo Duterte sent Labor Secretary Silvestre Bello III to talk to Sison, who is in exile in The Netherlands. The President earlier offered […]
(Eagle News) — Communist Party of the Philippines founder Jose Maria Sison has said he does not believe President Rodrigo Duterte was sincere in resuming peace talks. In a statement, Sison said “it is highly probable that Duterte’s offer of peace negotiations, preconditioned by resuming them in the Philippines, is a prelude to the escalation of attacks against the people and the revolutionary forces.” “The NPA (New People’s Army) can see through the ruse and […]
(Eagle News)—President Rodrigo Duterte on Tuesday, April 16, reiterated his proposal for Communist Party of the Philippines founding chair Joma Sison to come home and talk peace. Duterte did this after Sison slammed the government’s plans to hold localized peace talks, which he said were “fake”, and were all the more driving a nail into the coffin of peace negotiations. “Ako ang bahala sa iyo. Hindi ako traydor na tao. I give you my honor—word […]
(Eagle News)—The Palace on Saturday, March 23, slammed Communist Party of the Philippines founding chair Jose Maria Sison for saying President Rodrigo Duterte sounded “like an old broken record” with his permanent termination of peace talks. “If as Mr. Sison says the President sounds like a broken record, the cantankerous steak chieftain of the National Democratic Front is like an echo with his repeated criticisms of President Rodrigo Duterte and this administration to stay politically […]
(Eagle News)—National Democratic Front of the Philippines consultants can now be arrested, government peace adviser Carlito Galvez Jr. said. In a statement, Galvez said this was because the safe conduct pass which was granted to them to “create an enabling environment before the formal peace talks” was “automatically revoked” with President Rodrigo Duterte’s official termination of the peace talks with the group and the dissolution of the negotiating panels.” He said as a result, the […]
(Eagle News)–Bagong Alyansang Makabayan secretary general Renato Reyes Jr. on Friday, March 22, slammed President Rodrigo Duterte for terminating the peace talks “permanently,” saying the chief executive “does not understand there is broad support” for such a process. “The President fails to grasp that…addressing the roots of the armed conflict, and not a militarist approach, is the most effective way to a just peace,” he said. According to Reyes, localized peace talks “appear doomed from the […]
