WHEREAS , on 13 September 2021, Monday, the Cordillera Administrative Region will mark the commemoration of the 1986 Sipat Peace Talks; and

WHEREAS , it is but fitting and proper that the people of the Cordillera Administrative Region be given full opportunity to celebrate and participate in the occasion with appropriate ceremonies, subject to community quarantine, social distancing, and other public health measures;

NOW, THEREFORE, I, SALVADOR C. MEDIALDEA , Executive Secretary, by authority of the President, RODRIGO ROA DUTERTE, do hereby declare Monday, 13 September 2021, a special (non-working) day in the Cordillera Administrative Region.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF , I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the Republic of the Philippines to be affixed.

Done in the City of Manila, this 10th day of September in the year of Our Lord, Two Thousand and Twenty One.