Executive Order No. 289 (1971)
Creating the Cotabato Peace Commission
MALACAÑAN PALACE
MANILA
BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE PHILIPPINES
[ EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 289, February 10, 1971 ]
CREATING THE COTABATO PEACE COMMISSION
By virtue of the powers vested in me by law, I, FERDINAND E. MARCOS, President of the Philippines, do hereby create the Cotabato Peace Commission composed of the following:
Governor Simeon Datumanong | Chairman Lt. Col. Carlos Cajelo | Co-Chairman Bishop Gerard Mongeau | Member Bishop Manguramas | Member Mr. Pablo Mangulabnan | Member President, Cotabato Mayors League | Member
The Commission shall have the following functions:
1. Conduct a conciliation and pacification campaign among the various warring or feuding groups in Cotabato;
2. Look into the root causes of the conflicts, including those relating to land problems; and
3. Recommend to the President solutions to problems it cannot immediately work out.
The Commission is empowered to call upon any department, bureau, office, agency or instrumentality of the Government for such assistance as it may need for the accomplishment of its task.
Done in the City of Manila, this 10th day of February, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and seventy-one.
(SGD.) FERDINAND E. MARCOS
President of the Philippines
By the President:
(SGD.) ALEJANDRO MELCHOR
Executive Secretary