MANILA (Reuters) - Philippine President-elect Rodrigo Duterte has agreed to resume formal peace negotiations with Maoist-led rebels in Oslo next month, one of Duterte's senior advisers said on Thursday, after the talks stalled four years ago.
The Philippines began talks with the communist National Democratic Front in 1986 to resolve one of the world's longest-running insurgencies, which has killed more than 40,000 and stunted growth in the Philippines over almost 50 years.
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