Defense Secretary Gilbert Teodoro Jr. has again clarified that there is no internal or gentleman’s agreement between the Philippines and China on the Ayungin Shoal, particularly on the fate of the BRP Sierra Madre.
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“The narrative that unnamed or unidentified Chinese officials are propagating is another crude attempt to advance a falsehood,” the DND chief said. “First, it was the alleged ‘promise’ which then became the ‘gentleman’s agreement’ and now the latest version, the ‘new model’ or ‘internal understanding’,” Malaya said.
“Moreover, the Philippines will never agree to any ‘internal understanding’ or ‘new model’ that can be deemed to be acquiescence or recognition of China’s control and administration over the Ayungin Shoal as China’s territory,” he said. Beijing and Manila have repeatedly clashed in recent months over the submerged reef, which is within the Philippines’ exclusive economic zone.
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