Senator Panfilo M. Lacson on Wednesday said he is confident that Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana has strong basis in unilaterally abrogating the 1989 University of the Philippines (UP)-Department of National Defense (DND) accord.
The Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) and NLEX Corporation are speeding up building the first 5-kilometer section of the P23-billion NLEX Connector from Caloocan Interchange, C3 to España, Manila so it will be finished by the end of this year.
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At least 18 University of the Philippines students who joined the New People's Army have been killed in clashes with government forces, Armed Forces of the Philippines chief of staff General Gilbert Gapay said on Wednesday.
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Metro Manila (CNN Philippines, January 19) As the Defense Department unilaterally moved to terminate a 1989 pact that prohibits the unauthorized entry of police and military personnel in University of the Philippines’ campuses, another deal has consistently been mentioned as its basis the Soto-Enrile agreement.
In an Oct. 29, 1981 letter, then Defense Minister Juan Ponce Enrile told student groups that the police would not enter any campus nationwide unless requested by students or school authorities, and that the military would not interfere in “peaceful student protest actions.” In return, student protesters should notify the police ahead of any demonstration, the letter stated.
Duterte Youth urges DND to scrap pact with PUP banning soldiers, cops By ERWIN COLCOL, GMA News
Published January 19, 2021 7:07pm The Duterte Youth party-list is calling on the Department of National Defense (DND) to terminate as well its agreement with the Polytechnic University of the Philippines (PUP) which bars the entry of state forces in its campuses without prior notice. This, after the defense department unilaterally abrogated its pact with the University of the Philippines (UP) forged as early as 1989. In a statement, Duterte Youth party-list Representative Ducielle Cardema, herself a UP graduate, claimed that radical leftists groups have abused the UP-DND Accord in order to escape arrest for their seditious acts.