FILE: Zata in September 2018. (PNA photo by Joey O. Razon) MANILA –The military on Saturday clarified that the illegal structures earlier spotted during a maritime patrol at the West Philippine Sea on March 30 are not new constructions. “Except for five past recorded constructions in the Union Banks – two of which were by the Chinese and three by the Vietnamese – we have observed no new constructions,” Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) Public Affairs Office chief, Navy Capt. Jonathan Zata, said in a statement Saturday, He added that the AFP will remain unrelenting in providing pertinent data to the Department of National Defense and the National Task Force for the West Philippine Sea (NTF WPS) on “the situation that impinges on our sovereignty and our enjoyment of our sovereign rights.”