Agreement for Field Commanders of both Parties to Immediately and Strictly Observe the Ceasefire Agreement

• Country/entity

  Philippines
  Mindanao
  
• Region

  Asia and Pacific
  Asia and Pacific
  
• Agreement name

  Agreement for Field Commanders of both Parties to Immediately and Strictly Observe the Ceasefire Agreement
• Date

  6 Oct 1999
• Agreement status

  Multiparty signed/agreed
• Interim arrangement

  Yes
• Agreement/conflict level

  Intrastate/intrastate conflict ( Philippine Insurgencies (1968 - ) )
• Stage

  Ceasefire/related
• Conflict nature

  Government/territory
• Peace process

  Philippines - Mindanao process
• Parties

  USec. Orlando V. Soriano, GRP Negotiating Panel Chairman;
  Ghazali Jaafar, MILF Political Affairs Vice Chairman;
• Third parties

  Witness:
  BGen. Jose P. Torrelavega, GRP CCCH Chairman;
  Atty. Zosimo Jesus M. Paredes II, GRP Negotiating Panel Legal Consultant;
  Mohagher Iqbal, MILF Negotiating Panel Member;
  Shiekh Abuhalil Yahya, MILF Majlis As-Shura Chairman
• Description

  Agreement that, in identifying the need of the GRP-MILF Peace Panel to give more substance and authority to the cessation of hostilities, provides the GRP-MILF Coordinating Committees on Cessation of Hostilities (CCCH) the authorization to relay orders to military Field Commanders of both parties, and for the Field Commanders to strictly observe the orders relayed to them by the CCCH from the Peace Panels. The Agreement also provides that the CCCH will inform the Peace Panels of any violations by the forces, to which the Peace Panels will take immediate and necessary action to stop any violation, as well as punish accordingly the forces or Field Commanders who violate this Agreement.

• Agreement document

  PH_991006_Agreement for Field Commanders.pdf | Download PDF

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Justice sector reform

Socio-economic reconstruction

Land, property and environment

Security sector

Transitional justice

Implementation

In the name of God, the beneficent, the merciful

AGREEMENT

Whereas, the Government of the Republic of the Philippines (GRP) and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) signed the Implementing Administrative and Operational Guidelines of the GRP-MILF Agreement on the General Cessation of Hostilities (AGCH);

Whereas, there is a need for the GRP-MILF Peace Panel to give more authority and substance to the general cessation of hostilities by authorizing the GRP-MILF Coordinating Committee on Cessation of Hostilities (CCCH) to relay orders to the military Field Commanders of both parties once the GRP-MILF Peace Panels have agreed to a cessation of hostilities;

Whereas, the military Field Commanders of both parties shall immediately and strictly observe the orders of the GRP-MILF Peace Panels relayed to them by the GRP-MILF CCCH.

Now therefore, the parties agree, as they hereby agree on the following:

1. The GRP-MILF CCCH is hereby authorized, as an extension of the authority of the GRP-MILF Peace Panels, to relay orders to military Field Commanders of both parties once they have agreed to a cessation of hostilities.

2. The military Field Commanders of both parties shall immediately and strictly observe the orders of the GRP-MILF Peace Panels relayed to them by the GRP-MILF CCCH.

3. The GRP-MILF CCCH shall inform the GRP-MILF Peace Panels of any GRP-MILF forces or field commanders violating this agreement.

It shall be the responsibility of the GRP-MILF Peace Panels to take immediate and necessary action to stop any violation and punish respective forces or military Field Commanders who violate this agreement.

This agreement is an addendum on the powers and functions of the GRP-MILF CCCH stipulating in the Implementing Administrative and Operational Guidelines of the GRP-MILF AGCH.

Signed in Sultan Kudarat, Maguindanao this 6th day of October 1999.