PRESIDENTIAL Peace Adviser Teresita Quintos Deles said the 1996 peace agreement with the Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF) was a “failed experiment,” a statement that could incite dissent among the remaining members of what used to be the largest Muslim front in Mindanao.

Deles, in a statement issued at the Oslo Forum in Norway, also said President Benigno Aquino 3rd fixed that failure by forging peace with the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) whose leader, Al Haj Murad, joined the same gathering for the first time.