Aquino, Murad to meet to settle key difference on Bangsamoro law

The final version of a proposed Bangsamoro law is in limbo after both the Philippine government and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) could not agree on significant points. Malacanang said the deadlock will need to be settled at the top-most level through a meeting between President Benigno Aquino III and MILF chair Al Haj Murad Ebrahim. There is no set date and place for the meeting between the two leaders, but both sides see it as an opportunity to thresh out any issues. The chair of the government negotiating panel, Miriam Coronel-Ferrer, said that, with the impasse, the submission of the bill will not happen next week as hoped for, in time for the President’s State of the Nation Address (SONA) on July 28.

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