The Standard - 2016 June 08 - Wednesday

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VOL. XXX NO. 116 3 Sections 32 Pages P18 WEDNESDAY : JUNE 8, 2016 www.thestandard.com.ph editorial@thestandard.com.ph

Marcos reveals ‘secret’ server

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‘3 PACTS WILL BE SIGNED IN OSLO’

CPP’s Sison expects immediate truce, prisoners freed By Joyce Pangco Pañares

COMMUNIST Party of the Philippines founding chairman Jose Ma. Sison said he expects to conclude three agreements—including one paving the way for an immediate ceasefire— during the two-day exploratory talks in Oslo on June 15 and 16 with incoming peace adviser Jesus Dureza and incoming government chief negotiator Silvestre Bello III.

Fearless forecasts. Communist Party of the Philippines founding chairman Jose Maria Sison holds a long-distance dialog using Skype about peace talks with the incoming Duterte administration at the offices of the Ibon Foundation in Quezon City recently. LINO SANTOS

Lacson: Koko is majority’s SP choice

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“There will be agreements on the release of the political prisoners, an interim ceasefire and a plan to accelerate the peace negotiations,” Sison told The Standard in an interview from Utrecht. “The interim ceasefire will take effect with the release of all political prisoners through a general amnesty until the successful conclusion of the peace negotiations. The formal peace talks will include a comprehensive and detailed agreement on the permanent end of hostilities,” he added. Sison will be joined by National Democratic Front chief negotiator Luis Jalandoni and Fidel Agcaoili, while Dureza and Bello will bring with them incoming government peace panel member Hernani Braganza. “We will discuss confidencebuilding measures during the exploratory meeting,” Bello said. “The ceasefire proposal from the CPPNDF is already a major step forward.” Bello said he will retain current government peace panel member Efren Moncupa for the negotiations with the communists. Next page

Ex-PDEA agent links Ochoa to drug rings By Florante S. Solmerin A FORMER agent of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency who was removed because of alleged irregularities has accused Executive Secretary Paquito Ochoa and PDEA chief Arturo Cacdac Jr. of protecting drug syndicates.

Cacdac immediately denied the former agent’s accusation. “He issued an affidavit saying he was asked to plant evidence, to produce evidence of the alleged shabu laboratory. Now during the hearing of the Chinese who was arrested in San Fernando, Pampanga, when I wasn’t around, he said that was the evidence that was

planted, but in the affidavit of arrest, he said it was a buy-bust operation,” Cacdac said in Filipino in an interview on GMA News TV. He said Jonathan Morales was removed from the agency in 2013 because of “grave misconduct, dishonesty, and conduct prejudicial to the best interest of the service.” Next page


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