Here's the transcript of President Rodrigo Roa Duterte's first SONA delivered at the Batasang Pambansa Complex, Quezon City on July 25, 2016.
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Presidential peace adviser Jesus Dureza on Thursday welcomed as “positive” the convergence of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front and the Moro National Liberation Front in putting closure to the Mindanao conflict | Philippine Star
The government and MILF will formally resume the Bangsamoro peace process with a meeting of the 10-member GPH-MILF Implementing Team in Kuala Lumpur in early August, Presidential Adviser on the Peace Process Jesus Dureza and MILF chair Al Haj Murad Ebrahim said | MindaNews
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Top officials of the ARMM and mayors of three pilot towns in Sulu have signed a Memorandum of Agreement for the implementation of the “Apat Dapat” program, a poverty-alleviation initiative focusing on the region’s 600 poorest families | Manila Bulletin
The political arena for the Bangsamoro will now shift from the 17th Congress to the 2017 Constitutional Convention following President Duterte’s announcement that his peace roadmap would be to push first for the change of political system to federalism by incorporating provisions of the proposed BBL into the new Constitution | MindaNews