Breakthrough in wealth-sharing accord with Bangsamoro ‘a close call’

The signing on Saturday of the wealth-sharing accord between the Philippine government and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) was a "close call," but in the end the persistence and goodwill of the two parties “bore fruit."

This was how the government’s chief negotiator Miriam Ferrer described the breakthrough in the signing of the annex on wealth sharing, one of the most contentious among the remaining annexes to be tackled in the framework agreement.