COTABATO CITY, Philippines – The Moro Islamic Liberation Front and the Moro National Liberation Front are open to the plan by the Organization of Islamic Cooperation) to create a Bangsamoro Coordination Forum (BCF) as a venue to pursue the MNLF-MILF reunification to hasten the peace process, according to report published in the Philippine Star, Thursday. The OIC helped broker the Sept. 2, 1996 government-MNLF final peace pact, and is presently an observer to Malaca?ang's on-going peace talks with the MILF. The OIC's secretary general, Ekmeleddin Ishanuglo, announced in a statement read by an emissary during last week's MILF-led Bangsamoro Leaders' Congress that they will establish the BCF to allow the two Moro groups to work out their reunification. Al-Haj Murad, chairman of the MILF, told reporters they are open to such an initiative and they have no opposition to the plan. — Agencies
