![]() “Back-channel talks are discreet so I cannot disclose,” Dureza told the Inquirer in a text message. Asked about the status of the ongoing informal talks, Sison said there were “only a few kinks to iron out, while so many issues have been resolved.” President Rodrigo Duterte’s peace adviser, Jesus Dureza, declined to comment on details of the back-channel talks. “We are hoping that back-channel talks will be successful so we can start the ceasefire in its initial form as stand-down agreement starting June 14,” Sison, who is living in exile in Utrecht, the Netherlands, said in an online interview with the Inquirer on Wednesday. ![]() A halt to hostilities between government troops and the communist New People’s Army (NPA) ahead of an interim peace agreement and a formal ceasefire could start as early as next week, according to Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) founding chair Jose Maria Sison.
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