MALACAÑAN PALACE
MANILA
BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE PHILIPPINES
[ GENERAL ORDER NO. 58 December 24, 1976 ]
A GENERAL CEASEFIRE IN SOUTHERN PHILIPPINES
WHEREAS, the Philippine Government recognizes the need to find a just, lasting and peaceful solution to the conflict solution to the conflict in Southern Philippines;
WHEREAS, an accord was reached with the representatives of the Ministerial Committee of Four of the Islamic Conference in Manila in August 1976 to resume the talks between the representatives of the Philippine Government and the Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF);
WHEREAS, during the visit to Tripoli, Libya in November 1976, by the First Lady and Metro-Manila Governor, MRS. IMELDA ROMUALDEZ MARCOS, an agreement was forged with the Libyan Arab, Republic that the resumption of talks between the representatives of the Government of the Republic of the Philippines and the Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF) and Moros elsewhere be scheduled to take place on December 15, 1976 in Tripoli, Libya;
WHEREAS, in pursuance of the above agreements, the Philippine Government sent the RP Negotiating Panel headed by Undersecretary CARMELO Z. BARBERO to Tripoli, Libya to resume the talks with the representatives of the Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF) under the auspices of the Secretariat and the Quadripartite Commission of the Islamic Conference, with the Libyan Arab Republic acting host during the negotiation;
WHEREAS, as a result of the negotiation on December 15–23, 1976, an agreement in general principal was signed between the Government of the Republic of the Philippines and the Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF); and
WHEREAS, among the provisions of the Agreement is the declaration of ceasefire in Southern Philippine effective immediately after the signature on the Agreement at 2300H of December 23, 1976 (0500H December 24, in the Philippines).ℒαwρhi৷
NOW, THEREFORE, I FERDINAND E. MARCOS, Commander in-chief of all Armed Forces of the Philippines and President of the Republic of the Philippines, by virtue of the powers vested in me by the Constitution and pursuant to Proclamation No. 1081, dated September 21, 1972, do hereby order a general ceasefire in Southern Philippines to like effect today, December 24, 1976.
DONE in the City of Manila, this 24th Day of December, in the year of Our Lord, Nineteen-Hundred and Seventy-Six.
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