WE are not congratulating the Filipino people, our Republic, or the entirety of our Muslim Filipino compatriots for the historic event that is happening this afternoon in Malacañang. We are only congratulating, the Office of the Presidential Assistant on the Peace Process—Secretary Teresita Deles, Chief Negotiator for the Philippine government Prof. Miriam Coronel-Ferrer and her predecessors—and the entire Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) leadership, specially Chief Negotiator Mohagher Iqbal and the MILF Chairman Al Haj Murad Ebrahim. Oh, yes, President Benigno Aquino the 3rd must also be congratulated.

Also deserving of congratulations are the governments, ambassadors and Philippine case officers of the foreign countries who have been assiduously nursing the negotiations and spending money to make sure it didn’t bomb.

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