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President Rodrigo Duterte on Sunday night ordered a “unilateral and reciprocal ceasefire” after the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) directed all fighting forces of its armed wing, the New People’s Army (NPA), to stand down once the government declared a truce for the holiday season

“The reciprocal unilateral ceasefires are a measure of goodwill and confidence-building to foster the environment for the resumption of the peace negotiations

Combatants from both parties and the Filipino people were assured of the holiday truce after President Duterte reciprocated the pronouncement made by the CPP earlier today, December 22

There is such a thing as a permanent truce, like South and North Korea

Bayan calls on the President Rodrigo Duterte to ditch his government’s all-out war policy and instead embark on goodwill measures that could jumpstart the peace talks with the NDFP

Despite the most widespread and militant general strike of the public transport in over two decades, around 30 people attended

“The claim that Duterte is on the so-called NPA hit-list is malicious psy-war from (National Security Adviser Hermogenes Esperon) Esperon,”

If Mr. Duterte “is truly interested in peace negotiations” with the National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP), he “has to reorient his defense, military and police officials

Si­son said both Manila and the NDFP can adopt and un­der­take “good­will mea­sures as re­cip­ro­cal uni­lat­eral cease­fires and the re­lease of po­lit­i­cal pris­on­ers who are el­derly and sickly on hu­man­i­tar­ian grounds, es­pe­cially those who shall par­tic­i­pate in the peace ne­go­ti­a­tions.”

peace negotiations with the National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP) would probably resume on the second or third week of January