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Published April 9, 2021, 1:45 PM
Surigao del Sur Rep. Johnny Pimentel on Friday called for joint naval war games between the Philippines and the United States, and the signing of a new “Manila Declaration”, strongly renewing the allegiance of the two countries to the 1951 RP-US Mutual Defense Treaty (MDT).
“We should have another Manila Declaration, considering China’s plan to occupy more areas in the West Philippine Sea that are clearly within our 200-nautical mile exclusive economic zone,” Pimentel, House Strategic Intelligence Committee chairperson, said on Friday, April 8, which was also ‘’Araw ng Kagitingan’’.
In the Senate, the MDT is an untapped weapon in the arsenal of the Philippines to prevent our fish within the RP Exclusive Economic Zone (EZZ) from being stolen, Senator Panfilo M. Lacson, chairman of the Senate Committee on National Defense, said.
Published April 7, 2021, 11:40 AM
Opposition Senator Risa Hontiveros on Wednesday renewed her call for the Senate to look into the possible collaboration and collusion of some Filipino entities in the construction of China’s artificial islands and military installations in the West Philippine Sea (WPS).
Sen. Risa Hontiveros
(Senate of the Philippines / FILE PHOTO)
Hontiveros said it is imperative that the Upper Chamber investigates the issue as China brazenly takes over parts of the Philippine’s exclusive economic zone (EEZ).
“Sino ang nang-traydor sa mga Pilipino? May nagbenta ba ng mga teritoryo natin? (Who was the traitor among the Filipinos? Did somebody sell our territories?) We need to find out,” Hontiveros said in a statement on April 7.
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