Entering office in June 2010, the new Benigno Aquino III administration signaled an intent to forge peace in the resource-rich region in order to attract more foreign investment to the country. In their primary document submitted to the Aquino peace panel in February 2011, the MILF scaled back their land claims -- they want a sub-state in which they remain Filipino citizens but keep their Muslim identity. They are no longer considered as a separatist movement because the agenda on the table no longer included independence. On August 04, 2011 Philippine President Benigno Aquino met with the chairman of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF), amid peace negotiations between the two sides. It was the first time a Filipino president met with the head of the country’s largest Muslim rebel group. The Muslim group came to the meeting not as separatists but as Filipinos.