Excerpt from The Daily Tribune 

A party-list congressman from Mindanao and a professor from the University of the Philippines are set to leave tomorrow to join an inter-parliamentary mission from at least 10 countries to press a truce between Israel and the Lebanon-based Hezbollah.

Rep. Mujiv Hataman of the party-list Anak Mindanao said he and Prof. Walden Bello are scheduled to leave for Lebanon tomorrow to join other countries’ representatives in seeking for a ceasefire between the two camps.

Hataman recently filed House Resolution 1315, urging Congress to join the call of international and regional organizations for a halt to the hostilities between Israel and Lebanon which has killed mostly civilians, including children.

Hataman said the peace mission is being organized by Focus, an international, non-government, anti-war organization which has members from Asia, Europe, Latin America and other continents.

He said members of the delegation will by themselves shoulder the expenses for the trip, which he expects will take “more or less one week.”

From Manila, Hataman said he and Bello would proceed to Tokyo, Japan to link up with other members of the delegation who will include parliamentarians and members of various non-government organizations from India, Indonesia, Korea, Japan and other countries from Europe.

From there, the group will leave for Damascus, Syria en route to the Lebanese capital of Beirut.