Misuari asks OIC not to shift venue for confab

COTABATO CITY – Jailed Moro National Liberation Front chairman Nur Misuari has asked the Organization of Islamic Conference not to shift to Indonesia, instead of Jeddah Saudi Arabia, the venue of the forthcoming Tripartite dialogue on perceived kinks in the Sept. 2, 1996 government-MNLF peace agreement.

Sources close to Misuari, among them members of his cabinet when he was still governor of the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao, said he is not amenable to a proposal by the Indonesian government to hold the tripartite meeting in Jakarta.

Representatives of Malacañang, the MNLF and the OIC, a group of 58 Muslim countries, including Arab petroleum-exporting states, are to discuss “misunderstandings” on the peace accord during the tripartite meeting, postponed five times since June last year.