Enhancing governance in Mindanao: (from left) U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) Mission Director Gloria Steele, US Ambassador to the Philippines Philip Goldberg, Zamboanga City Mayor Ma. Isabelle Climaco-Salazar, and Mindanao Development Authority Chairperson Luwalhati Antonino. photo: minda.gov.ph
(PRN) LONDON and KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia, January
27, 2014 - After 16 years of negotiations the Government of the
Philippines and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) have completed
the negotiations for a Comprehensive Agreement on the Bangsamoro (CAB) that
settles one of the most protracted armed conflicts in the world. This is the
most significant peace agreement since the Nepal agreement in 2006.
