THE Philippine government and communist rebels agreed to return to the formal negotiating table on Sunday, about a month after President Rodrigo Duterte scrapped peace talks over bloody clashes between the military and rebel forces.

The agreement was reached after the members of the peace panels of the Government of the Republic of the Philippines (GRP) and the National Democratic Front (NDF) met for back-channel talks on March 10 to 11 in Utrecht, The Netherlands.

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