AQUINO PLANS TO END MANILA CONFLICT WITH MORO?

Manila: President Benigno Aquino III's government has bared its dream to end the Moro separatist conflict in the south, which at the onset, does not appear to be much different from the tack taken by the Arroyo administration.
During the formal turnover ceremonies in suburban Pasig City of the Office of the Presidential Adviser on the Peace Process (OPAPP), newly appointed Secretary Teresita Deles presented a four-point peace agenda to end the four-decade old southern Philippines' conflict between government forces and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF).
She identified these four areas as:

1. The delivery of basic services to communities affected by the conflict, with particular emphasis on education and health;
2. The economic reconstruction and sustainable development in the region, wherein
3. The Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) is an integral part; security with stress placed on disbanding private armies
4. Good governance.

"There could be no peace if there is no good governance and in this, the organs of local government play an important role," Deles said.

Deles assumed the post as Aquino III's peace adviser taking over from outgoing secretary Annabelle Abaya.
Not surprisingly, Deles's strategy is not much different from that taken by the OPAPP under Abaya. This is partly because it had been Deles who was chief architect of the peace strategy taken by then president Gloria Arroyo.

Source:Gulf News