THE chief government peace negotiator said that President Rodrigo Duterte’s issuance of a proclamation declaring the communist rebels as “terrorists” would be the “end of everything” for the peace talks.

“If the issuance [of the proclamation] happens then it will be the end of everything [in terms of the peace talks] because we cannot negotiate with terrorists,” Labor Secretary Silvestre Bello 3rd Bello said in Filipino today, Thursday, in an interview at the House of Representatives.

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