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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,...

'Instead of instilling confidence in our police and military, your decision can only sow more confusion and mistrust, given that you have not specified what it is that you exactly aim to do,' University of the Philippines President Danilo Concepcion says.

The Department of Justice (DOJ) might end up deciding on the termination of the agreement between the University of the Philippines (UP) and the Department of National Defense (DND) that has for decades prevented state forces from entering the institution’s campuses, Justice Secretary Menardo Guevar

After the Department of National Defense unilaterally terminated an agreement with the University of the Philippines that prohibited the entry of state security forces in campuses, several senators on Tuesday filed a resolution that opposed the DND's action.

President Rodrigo Duterte supports the decision of the Department of National Defense (DND) to unilaterally terminate its agreement with the University of the Philippines (UP) on the entry of state forces in its campuses.