manila philippine communist guerrillas are willing to resume peace talks with the government after president rodrigo duterte revived the idea but reject any preconditions their leader said on thursdayduterte campaigned in 2016 on a promise to end the nearly 50year maoist rebellion which has killed more than 40000 people by finding a political solution but he abandoned peace efforts in november complaining of repeated rebel attackson wednesday he ordered his cabinet to work on a truce to enable talks it was not immediately clear what prompted the change of heartjose maria sison founder and leader of the communist party of the philippines cpp who has been living in exile in the netherlands since the late 1980s said the two sides can resolve any differences during negotiationsthere should be no preconditions on the resumption of peace talks sison said in a radio interview adding both sides should bring different positions on issues to the table in order to thresh out the differences and arrive at agreementsjesus dureza a presidential adviser said in a radio interview there should be no attacks from either side before talks resume and the rebels had to stop their practice of extortionthese were not conditions he said only moves to create an enabling environmentthe new peoples army has attacked mines plantations construction and other businesses and collected revolutionary taxation to finance its rebelliondutertes spokesman harry roque said the president also wanted the rebels to drop their plan to join a coalition government because that is absolutely not on the bargaining tablesison said both sides must comply with previous agreements and remove all obstacles and hindrances to the peace negotiations without identifying any issuesthe government and the communists political wing the national democratic front have been in onagain offagain negotiations since 1986 previous agreements have fallen apart when the government rearrested rebels who served as consultants in the talksthe mainly roman catholic philippines is also fighting several muslim insurgencies in the southa military spokesman brigadiergeneral bienvenido datuin said the army would support the governments peace initiative but will continue performing our mission and mandate of protecting the people and security the statedefence and military officials also doubt how much control political leaders abroad have on their fighters at home after attacks during peace negotiations last year