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MALACAÑAN PALACE
MANILA

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE PHILIPPINES

[ Memorandum Order No. 163, August 25, 1993 ]

DEFINING THE FUNCTIONS AND RESPONSIBILITIES OF THE PRESIDENTIAL ADVISER ON THE PEACE PROCESS.

The Presidential Adviser on the Peace Process shall have the following functions and responsibilities:

1. Recommend to the President policies and programs to ensure the implementation of the comprehensive peace process;

2. Advice and assist the President in the management and direction of the comprehensive peace process;

3. Coordinate the functions and activities of bodies which may be created to implement the various components of the comprehensive peace process, including a National Amnesty Commission, the National Reconciliation and Development Council and the Government Peace Negotiating Panels;

4. Report to the President on the progress of the implementation of the recommendations of the National Unification Commission;

5. Request the assistance of the departments, agencies, including government-owned and controlled corporations in the efficient and effective implementation of the comprehensive peace process; and

6. Perform such other functions, as well as exercise such powers as may be delegated or assigned to him by the President.

This Memorandum Order shall take effect immediately.

DONE, in the City of Manila, Philippines, this 25th day of August, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and ninety-three.1aшphi1

(Sgd.) FIDEL V. RAMOS

By the President:

(Sgd.)  TEOFISTO T. GUINGONA, JR.
Executive Secretary

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