MONDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 2019 ]

lnspired by Bangsamoro, Cqdillerans push for full autonomy anew

' - council meeting in nug#clty, IrB 5443 was rntrocluced by Ifugao Repr bu191ly -t-hle was not approved'
By Brenda Jocson gover-
-non-g;u""timent
. nors, private .J"torr, Teodoro Baguilat with Baac as then Regional "Sipat" is a local Mountain Province
TABUK CITY, Kalinga-The people agencils as wellas departmint regional Development Council chair, hoping'lo attain terjl foJ peace' : .,--,_-1.,^,-.^_.
total autonomy for the Cordillera region. - The Sipat Agre€ment paved the way tor
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of Corclillera are pushiig again for iu1l dlrectors agreed to poih fo. fu1l or,tono- "_
autonomy, including fiical brdg.tr.y my ofthe dordillera region. Then t-resident Corazon Aquino and the cessation ofhostilities between govem-
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management, as tlie nation has witnesseb kalinga Govemor Jocil Baac said there . the Cordillera Peoples Liberation Army
ment forces and the cordillera rebels' It was l
the pl;biscite in th; B*g.u-oro eoiJn-ol ir u t""iioi -iritr"i house measure after signed the SIPAi Agreement
where signed on Septemb€r 13' 1986 by then-Pres-
Cordillera ident Aquino in-Mt Data Hotel in barangay
mous Region in Muslim Mindanao. House Bill 5443 was a,\ed in the House th-e z6 points demand by the
Data, Bauco, Mountiin Province'
In thelecelt Regional Development Committee on Local Government. Peoplet Liberation Army was studied,

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