MALACAÑANG
MANILA

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE PHILIPPINES

MEMORANDUM ORDER NO. 397

CREATING A SPECIAL MONITORING GROUP TO OVERSEE THAT THE GRP-
MNLF PEACE AGREEMENT IS SUSTAINED

In order to attain sustainable peace agreement in Mindanao, there is hereby created a Special Monitoring Group to conduct the following:

a. Identify all ranking MNLF Officers and Field Commanders involved in the Peace Process and categorize them into combatants and non-combatants;

b. Compile their individual profiles taking into account the size of their respective armed following; and

c. Tap qualified key officials and/or members of the MNLF for appointment to government posts.

The Special Monitoring Group shall be composed of the following:

Chairman: Executive Secretary
Vice-Chairman: Presidential Adviser, Peace Process
Members: Secretary, Department of National Defense
Secretary, Department of Interior and Local Government
Executive Director, National Program for Unification and Development

DONE in the City of Manila, this 13th day of Sept. in the year of Our Lord, Nineteen Hundred and Ninety-Six.

(Sgd.) FIDEL V. RAMOS

By the President:
(Sgd.) RUBEN D. TORRES
Executive Secretary