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MALACAÑAN PALACE
MANILA

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE PHILIPPINES

[ EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 289, February 10, 1971 ]

CREATING THE COTABATO PEACE COMMISSION

By virtue of the powers vested in me by law, I, FERDINAND E. MARCOS, President of the Philippines, do hereby create the Cotabato Peace Commission composed of the following:

Governor Simeon Datumanong	Chairman
Lt. Col. Carlos Cajelo	Co-Chairman
Bishop Gerard Mongeau	Member
Bishop Manguramas	Member
Mr. Pablo Mangulabnan	Member
President, Cotabato Mayors League	Member

The Commission shall have the following functions:

1. Conduct a conciliation and pacification campaign among the various warring or feuding groups in Cotabato;

2. Look into the root causes of the conflicts, including those relating to land problems; and

3. Recommend to the President solutions to problems it cannot immediately work out.ℒαwρhi৷

The Commission is empowered to call upon any department, bureau, office, agency or instrumentality of the Government for such assistance as it may need for the accomplishment of its task.

Done in the City of Manila, this 10th day of February, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and seventy-one.

(SGD.) FERDINAND E. MARCOS
President of the Philippines

By the President:

(SGD.) ALEJANDRO MELCHOR
Executive Secretary

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