President Rodrigo Duterte has not ordered the termination of peace negotiations with the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP), a spokesperson for the chief executive said on Tuesday.

"As of this moment, there’s no instruction from the President to discontinue the government’s peace negotiations," Undersecretary Ernesto Abella told reporters during a press conference after the CPP’s armed wing, the New People’s Army (NPA), attacked a police outpost in Iloilo on Sunday.

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