MANILA - Foreign Affairs Secretary Teodoro Locsin Jr. on Thursday rejected the proposal of the Philippine Coast Guard to designate a Coast Guard attaché in the Philippine Embassy in Washington, DC.
MANILA - Foreign Affairs Secretary Teodoro Locsin Jr. on Thursday rejected the proposal of the Philippine Coast Guard to designate a Coast Guard attaché in the Philippine Embassy in Washington, DC.
@DFAPHL The Philippine Coast Guard applied for a Coast Guard attache IN Washington after I flatly rejected one FOR Beijing. The Washington request is likewise rejected and don't ever go behind my back. We don't share a coastline with the US like Canada does. So no, nunca, never.
“No law enjoins, no power compels free foreign passage through sovereign waters. Custom allows but courtesy requires repeated permission. We may declare a few archipelagic sea lanes but never so many as to turn over our maritime space to the nearest great naval power,” he said.
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