Philippine government, Moro Islamic Liberation Front talks in "final stages".

(From BBC Monitoring International Reports)

Text of report by Inquirer wires with Edwin O. Fernandez, Jeoffrey Maitem, Charlie C. Senase, PDI Mindanao Bureau entitled: "Most issues between gov't, MILF settled", published in English by Philippine newspaper Philippine Daily Inquirer website on 1 June

Sultan Kudarat, Maguindanao: Negotiations to end the decades-old Muslim insurgency have reached their final stages, officials from the government and the separatist Moro Islamic Liberation Front said yesterday. Government and rebel negotiators had settled about 80 per cent of the issues relating to "ancestral domain", or the Muslim minority's right to profit from …