PH Embassy in Singapore Convenes Town Hall Meeting with AFP

Armed Forces of the Philippines Deputy Chief of Staff for Civil Military Operations Major General Antonio Parlade Jr. informs the Filipino Community on the Philippine Government’s thrust to end local communist armed conflict in the country within a few years. (Singapore PE photo)

SINGAPORE 26 April 2019 — Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) Deputy Chief of Staff for Civil Military Operations Major General Antonio Parlade Jr. informed the Filipino community members in Singapore on the Philippine Government’s thrust to end local communist armed conflict (ECLAC) by 2022 in a town hall meeting on 06 April 2019. 

Major General Parlade discussed Executive Order No. 70, which mandates to formulate a National Peace Framework which includes, a mechanism for local peace engagements or negotiations and interventions in order to achieve peace in the country.

He also updated the Filipino community on the progress of the Philippine Government’s action plan to end armed conflict in the Philippines. He said that terrorist-linked organizations sometimes are able to siphon funds from development-and-charitable-oriented programs of NGOs, funded by international organizations. The CPP-NPA receives hundreds of millions of pesos, if not billions, from these diverted funds.  

The Philippine Government seeks to engage the cooperation of the foreign governments and their law enforcement agencies to end the flow of these diverted funds to the Communist Party of the Philippines-New People's Army coffers. Major General Parlade expressed confidence that the AFP will be able to end the armed conflict by 2023.

The AFP official was in Singapore to attend the Military-Police (Milipol) Asia Pacific 2019 Conference on 2-4 April 2019, where he was a speaker on the operations of the terrorist and criminal elements as well as the responses to emerging security challenges in the Asia-Pacific region. END

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