CPP-NPA-NDF – Jose Ma. Sison said the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP), National Democratic Front (NDF) and its military arm New People’s Army (NPA) intend to declare a new ceasefire starting August 28, 2016, effectively extending a seven-day truce implemented as goodwill gesture while peace talks with the Philippine government were taking place in Oslo, Norway from August 21 to 27, 2016.
The Central Committee of the CPP and the National Operational Command of the NPA earlier issued a unilateral declaration of the seven-day ceasefire to celebrate and bolster the resumption of formal peace talks with the Government of the Republic of the Philippines (GRH).
The ceasefire took effect starting 12:01 a.m. of August 21 and was supposed to last until 11:59 p.m. of August 27.
“This ceasefire declaration is encouraged by the GRP’s facilitation of the release of nearly all NDFP consultants who are set to participate in peace negotiations in the course of the next several months,” said the CPP and NPA.
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