Members of the Bundestag, Germany’s Lower House of Parliament, paid a courtesy call to Office of the Presidential Adviser on the Peace Process (OPAPP) to be oriented on the peace and development initiatives of the Duterte Administration. German parliamentarian Dr. Thomas Gambke, Chair of the Parliamentary Friendship Group of Relations with the Association of Southeast Asian Nation (ASEAN), expressed confidence and support in the renewed peace processes in the Philippines.
Bundestag Members’ Courtesy Call to OPAPP
The Office of the Presidential Adviser on the Peace Process or OPAPP is the office mandated to oversee, coordinate, and integrate the implementation of the comprehensive peace process. The agency was created through executive order no. 125, s. 1993 which was later amended in 2001 with the signing of executive order no. 3, s. 2001 as a reaffirmation of the government’s commitment to achieving just and lasting peace through a comprehensive peace process.