CLARK AIR BASE, PAMPANGA: President Rodrigo Duterte expects to end decades of insurgency with the signing of a final peace agreement with the Communist Party of the Philippines-National Democratic Front (CPP-NDF) by the end of the year.

“We hope we will have a firm agreement by the end of the year if Sison would come home,” Duterte said Tuesday, referring to CPP founder Jose Maria Sison.

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