Memorandum Order No. 397 (1996)

MALACAÑAN PALACE

MANILA

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE PHILIPPINES

[ Memorandum Order No. 397, September 13, 1996 ]

CREATING A SPECIAL MONITORING GROUP TO OVERSEE THAT THE GRP- MNLF PEACE AGREEMENT IS SUSTAINED

In order to attain sustainable peace agreement in Mindanao, there is hereby created a Special Monitoring Group to conduct the following:

a. Identify all ranking MNLF Officers and Field Commanders involved in the Peace Process and categorize them into combatants and non-combatants;

b. Compile their individual profiles taking into account the size of their respective armed following; and

c. Tap qualified key officials and/or members of the MNLF for appointment to government posts.

The Special Monitoring Group shall be composed of the following:

Chairman: | Executive Secretary Vice-Chairman: | Presidential Adviser, Peace Process Members: | Secretary, Department of National Defense | Secretary, Department of Interior and Local Government | Executive Director, National Program for Unification and Development

DONE in the City of Manila, this 13th day of Sept. in the year of Our Lord, Nineteen Hundred and Ninety-Six.

(Sgd.) FIDEL V. RAMOS

By the President:

(Sgd.) RUBEN D. TORRES

Executive Secretary