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The decision of the Department of National Defense to end its agreement with the University of the Philippines as regards prohibition on the entry of police and military was clearly an aim to sow terror and fear, the Communist Party of the Philippines said Tuesday.
President Rodrigo Duterte supports the decision of Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana to terminate the UP-DND accord of 1989, says Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque, an alumnus of the university.
“unilateral” abrogation of the Defense department’s accord with the State University. Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana’s move to end an agreement with UP which prohibits state forces from entering UP campuses was not welcomed by the community as shouts of “Defend, Defend, Defend UP” filled the Quezon Hall. UP Student Regent Renee Co led scores of students and other members of progressive groups that pushed to “uphold UP-DND accord,” which she said, was the product of many sacrifices and works of university leaders. The abrogation, Co said, was alarming to the members of the ...
endIndex: 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 prote...
Senate Minority Leader Franklin Drilon said he would ask Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana to review the agency’s decision to end the agreement with the University of the Philippines that bars the entry of state forces in its campuses.