الفلبين: مندناو الإسلامية في انتظار نموذج سلطة مستقلة

- خبر من مصادر إنجليزية.

أعلن البيان المشترك بين الحكومة الفلبينية وممثلي جبهة تحرير مورو الإسلامية حول إقليم "مندناو" الواقع بمنطقة الحكم الذاتي التي يسيطر عليها المسلمون - أن الإقليم في انتظار نموذج سلطة جديد بدلًا من النظام السابق.

وجاءت تلك التصريحات في أعقاب المفاوضات التي استمرت ثلاثة أيام بين الحكومة الفلبينية والإسلاميين والوسيط الماليزي؛ حيث أعرب الجميع عن إيجابية النتائج المتفائلة؛ فقد تضمنت النتائج الاتفاق على هوية المورو، وكيان الحكم الذاتي الجديد، وتعزيز ممارسة المواطنين المورو لحقوقهم السياسية، وإنشاء المحاكم الشرعية. المصدر: شبكة الألوكة.

يرجى الإشارة إلى المصدر عند نقل الخبر – شبكة الألوكة.

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New political entity to replace autonomous Muslim region

NEGOTIATIONS ON the Mindanao conflict ended on Wednesday with the government and Moro panels moving towards replacing the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) with a new political entity, according to a joint statement.

The statement noted that the talks ended “with both sides expressing confidence in wrapping up discussions on mechanisms towards the realization of a new political entity that would replace the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) as contained in the April 2012 GPH-MILF (government of the Philippines-Moro Islamic Liberation Front) Decision Points on Principles.” The decision points outlined issues to facilitate the peace process. The ARMM was created by Republic Act No. 9054 enacted in 2001.

The statement did not provide details on how to proceed with the new political entity, and only said that both sides will continue “discussions on power sharing and other related matters, and agreed to meet in August 2012.”

It was signed by Mario Victor F. Leonen, government chief negotiator; Mohagher Iqbal, MILF panel chairman; and Tengku Dato’ Ab Ghafar Tengku Mohamed, the Malaysian facilitator.

The Palace, describing the outcome of the three-day talks as “very positive,” said it is “cautiously optimistic” on the outcome of a final deal.

“I can only tell you that we are cautiously optimistic that a peace agreement will be signed within this administration,” Presidential Spokesman Edwin Lacierda said in a press briefing.

For its part, the Office of the Presidential Adviser on the Peace Process (OPAPP) quoted Mr. Leonen’s closing statement as saying that “we definitely will face the hardest questions and confront our principals with the hardest decisions yet ever to be made in these negotiations.”

He echoed the Palace’s guardedly optimism in that “many issues [remain] to be resolved, including the mechanisms that will ensure the delivery of all these commitments made through broad acceptance by all our critical sectors.

The Malaysian facilitator, according to OPAPP, expressed optimism on achieving a final peace but noted that “there are a lot of work to be done. One thing is -- we are moving very fast. I think that is important. The spirit of the whole final agreement is understood by both parties.”

Mr. Iqbal, meanwhile, said the parties “have achieved something.”

The decision points include the agreement of the citizenship of the Moros; creation of a new autonomous political entity in place of the autonomous Muslim region; the new autonomous political entity shall have a ministerial form of government; to have a mechanism that will put in place the agreements during the transition period; taxation; strengthening the Moros political rights; and Shari’ah courts.

Meanwhile, business leaders in Western Mindanao have called on the government and the MILF to give the local business sector an observer seat in the peace talks.

In a resolution passed during the three-day eighth Zamboanga Peninsula Business Conference, participants reiterated the need for an observer seat for Philippine Chamber of Commerce and Industry in the GPH-MILF negotiating panel “to ensure that all issues related to the well-being and interests of the private sector in the region are fully protected.”

“The private sector of Zamboanga Peninsula Region is unanimous in calling for the exclusion of any and all areas presently within the current administrative region of Zamboanga Peninsula from participating in any further plebiscites for inclusion into an expanded ARMM or any entity that may be created/established as a result of any final peace agreement...,” read the resolution. -- with a report from DTW