PH asserts sovereignty over 11 islands in northern Luzon
– Personnel of the Northern Luzon Command and Naval Forces Northern Luzon have completed the construction and installation of sovereign markers in 11 uninhabited islands in the northern part of the Philippines.
“The sovereign marker symbolizes the assertion of our country’s absolute sovereignty over the 11 uninhabited islands and over the surrounding territorial waters. This also signifies actual physical occupation and development efforts that remove any doubt on the Philippines’ ownership of these islands,” he said.
The 11 islands were selected based on their strategic relevance. These islands are conspicuously located at the fringes of the island clusters of the Babuyan Group of Islands and the Batanes Island Group , making the sovereign markers clearly visible to ships transiting the waterways connecting the West Philippine Sea and the Pacific Ocean.
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