Military solution will not end communist insurgency, says Eide By Michaela P. del Callar 02/17/2011

Military solution will not end communist insurgency, says Eide

By Michaela P. del Callar 02/17/2011

Norway’s State Secretary Espen Bath Eide said a military solution will not end the more than four decades of communist insurgency in the Philippines, saying a political and negotiated settlement is required to achieve peace.

At the opening of the Norwegian-brokered formal peace talks between the government and the National Democratic Front, the negotiating arm of the Communist Party of the Philippines-New People’s Army (CPP-NPA), this week in Oslo, Eide hopes that both sides could finally address substantial issues and “get down to the business of addressing the root causes of the armed conflict, and talk about basic social, economic and political reforms.”

He said the two parties should finally work towards establishing a platform based on just and lasting peace.
The negotiations, the first in six years, will take place until February 21..... MORE

Source:  The Daily Tribune

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