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Saturday, December 08, 2007

 

Australia keen on joining peace talks

The ARMM and other parts of Mindanao have consistently been recipients of support from Down Under


COTABATO CITY: Australian diplomats met key leaders of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) on Thursday at Camp Darapanan, the rebel’s jungle base camp in Shariff Kabunsuan, where they personally conveyed Australia’s interest in playing a direct role in the peace process, a rebel official said in a report by the Philippine News Agency.

MILF chief negotiator Mohaqher Iqbal said in a telephone interview Friday that while there, Stephen Scott, Minster and Deputy Head of Mission of the Australian Embassy based in Manila, expressed Australia’s concern in implementing more peace and development works once the government and MILF ink a peace treaty next year.

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