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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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