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Joma Sison scores Palace for rejecting peace talks
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Article posted November 16, 2008 - 10:46 AM
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MANILA, Philippines - The Arroyo government's rejection of a joint statement
to resume peace talks betrays its insincerity in the peace process, Communist
Party of the Philippines (CPP) founding chairman Jose Maria Sison said.
Sison said the Arroyo government merely wants to scrap the progress already
made, and replace it with ceasefire negotiations that allow systematic human
rights violation.
"By its hostile reaction to the Madrigal-Jalandoni joint statement, the Arroyo
regime exposes its lack of desire for the immediate resumption of formal talks
in accordance with the existing bilateral agreements," he said in a statement
on the CPP website.
"The regime wants to scrap and lay aside these agreements and replace the
substantive peace negotiations on social, economic and political reforms with
ceasefire negotiations concurrent with the gross and systematic violations of
human rights, the faking of localized peace negotiations and real racketeering
on ghost amnesty beneficiaries," he added.
In the meantime, he said the Arroyo regime is becoming more and more
desperate as the financial, economic and political crisis of the imperialist system
is rapidly worsening.
He added the Filipino people are urging the GRP and National Democratic Front
of the Philippines to resume formal talks for peace and national unity to confront
the ills of the country.
Sison scored President Arroyo and Executive Secretary Eduardo Ermita for
attacking the joint statement of National Democratic Front (NDF) chief negotiator
Luis Jalandoni and Sen. Ana Consuelo Madrigal to resume peace talks.
"The attack is utterly malicious and deplorable," he said.
Even the call for the replacement of Hermogenes Esperon Jr as presidential
adviser on the peace process is addressed to President Arroyo and implies her
prerogative to appoint or replace her own personnel, he said.
"Being part of the GRP as senator and as chairperson of the Senate Committee
on peace, unification and reconciliation, Madrigal has also the prerogative to
make demands on Arroyo. It is along this line that Jalandoni expresses agreement
with the good senator," he added. - GMANews.TV
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