Press conference at 11:30 am on the need to hold a plebiscite to determine which of the 13 provinces wanted to be included in the Muslim Regional government. Tanggapan ng Pangulo ng Pilipinas (OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE PHILIPPINES)

I have misgivings, still about Minister Ali Treki. He changed some of the provisions of the agreement when we were not looking. I hope these are only instances of oversight not malicious attempts at foisting a humiliating and one sided agreement on us. It may be...

Another project that I have started is getting close to Chief Minister Harris Saleh of Sabah. I have assigned Engineer Rodolfo Cuenca of CDCP [Construction and Development Corporation of the Philippines] to this. Last night he attended the dinner at Malacañan and...

At 3:00 AM this morning when we called up Pres. [Muammar] Ghaddafy, Minister Ali Treki answered Imelda and confirmed that a final agreement in principle along my proposed compromise according to the constitutional processes of the Philippines had been adopted. Pres....

USec. [Carmelo] Barbero called me up at 5:00 AM Manila time to inform me they have signed the ceasefire communique and are about to initial the agreement in general. I told him to befriend Nur Misuari and to establish a line of communication with him so that we can...

4:40 PM At 4:00 PM upon arrival from the airport departure of Thai Prime Minister Thanin Kraivichien, I was able to push through a telephone call through the unreliable Libyan communications system. USec. [Carmelo] Barbero jubilantly told me that last night at 8:00 PM...

Thai Prime Minster Thanin Kraivichien tried to revive the Seato [Southeast Asia Treaty Organization] as well as establish some kind of a bilateral military arrangement with the Philippines outside ASEAN [Association of Southeast Asian Nations]. I convinced him this is...

Tuesday 3:00 AM I have just talked to President [Muammar] Ghaddafy, Dr. Ali Al Treki and Under Secretary [Carmelo] Barbero by long distance telephone for about fifty minutes—from 2:00 AM to 2:50 AM. Dr. Ali Al Treki, Libya’s Foreign Minister is again the voice of the...

Monday 6:20 AM I have been up since USec. [Carmelo] Barbero called up from Tripoli to tell me they have agreed on all the points that I cleared before he left except for the area. [Nur] Misuari supported by Ali Treki insist on all of Mindanao, Sulu and Palawan to be...

Saturday After a one-hour and a half caucus last night (7:00-8:30) while the Batasang Bayan was willing to pass some kind of enabling act on elections of my choice, I decided that we should sleep on the problem of how and when to hold elections although I was as of...