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GPH Negotiating Panel Chairperson Padilla gives notice of no formal talks next month
Submitted by Gladys.Estrellanes on Mon, 08/22/2011 - 21:55.
PRESS STATEMENT
By FIDEL V. AGCAOILI
Spokesperson, NDFP Negotiating Panel
20 August 2011
As spokesperson of the Negotiating Panel of the National Democratic
Front of the Philippines (NDFP), I am obliged to answer the press
statements of Alex Padilla of the Negotiating Panel of the Government
of the Philippines (GPH) which reveal publicly the contents of his
letter to the NDFP Negotiating Panel Chairperson Luis Jalandoni dated
19 August 2011. In due time, the latter shall send his reply.
In said letter, Padilla gives notice to Jalandoni that there will be
no formal talks of the panels in Oslo next month and indefinitely
until the reciprocal working committees on the CASER (Comprehensive
Agreement on Social and Economic Reforms) shall have completed the
common tentative agreement on social and economic reforms. He also
declares that before then, there shall be no formal talks between the
panels about issues involving the Joint Agreement on Safety and
Immunity Guarantees (JASIG), including the reconstruction of the list
of DI (documents of identification) holders under JASIG.
He insists that the GPH has no obligation under JASIG or under the
Oslo Joint Statements of 2011 to release most or all of the
JASIG-protected persons before what should have been the second round
of formal talks last June or next September and no NDFP personnel
shall enjoy the protection of the JASIG until formal talks are made
possible by the completion of the common tentative agreement on social
and economic forms.
The GPH position expressed in writing by Padilla brazenly violates the
JASIG and the entire peace process, and alerts the NDFP that the GPH
is already scuttling the peace negotiations. We also take notice that
Padilla has scorned the NDFP offer of alliance and truce and is
shooting it down in a press statement today.
Now, we fully understand why Padilla has been issuing press releases
every day like an extremely irresponsible and provocative psywar agent
of the reactionary armed forces, and not as a negotiator with some
amount of dignity and political sense.
We thank him for unwittingly justifying the determination of the armed
revolutionary movement to defend the people against worsening
exploitation and oppression and the escalating campaigns of military
suppression, which are propagandized by the US-directed Aquino regime
as peace and development operations.
By FIDEL V. AGCAOILI
Spokesperson, NDFP Negotiating Panel
20 August 2011
As spokesperson of the Negotiating Panel of the National Democratic
Front of the Philippines (NDFP), I am obliged to answer the press
statements of Alex Padilla of the Negotiating Panel of the Government
of the Philippines (GPH) which reveal publicly the contents of his
letter to the NDFP Negotiating Panel Chairperson Luis Jalandoni dated
19 August 2011. In due time, the latter shall send his reply.
In said letter, Padilla gives notice to Jalandoni that there will be
no formal talks of the panels in Oslo next month and indefinitely
until the reciprocal working committees on the CASER (Comprehensive
Agreement on Social and Economic Reforms) shall have completed the
common tentative agreement on social and economic reforms. He also
declares that before then, there shall be no formal talks between the
panels about issues involving the Joint Agreement on Safety and
Immunity Guarantees (JASIG), including the reconstruction of the list
of DI (documents of identification) holders under JASIG.
He insists that the GPH has no obligation under JASIG or under the
Oslo Joint Statements of 2011 to release most or all of the
JASIG-protected persons before what should have been the second round
of formal talks last June or next September and no NDFP personnel
shall enjoy the protection of the JASIG until formal talks are made
possible by the completion of the common tentative agreement on social
and economic forms.
The GPH position expressed in writing by Padilla brazenly violates the
JASIG and the entire peace process, and alerts the NDFP that the GPH
is already scuttling the peace negotiations. We also take notice that
Padilla has scorned the NDFP offer of alliance and truce and is
shooting it down in a press statement today.
Now, we fully understand why Padilla has been issuing press releases
every day like an extremely irresponsible and provocative psywar agent
of the reactionary armed forces, and not as a negotiator with some
amount of dignity and political sense.
We thank him for unwittingly justifying the determination of the armed
revolutionary movement to defend the people against worsening
exploitation and oppression and the escalating campaigns of military
suppression, which are propagandized by the US-directed Aquino regime
as peace and development operations.
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