President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. has said the enforcement of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) will be strengthened if the ASEAN and the European Union will join voices amid the tensions in the South China Sea. READ:
will be strengthened if the ASEAN and the European Union will join voices amid the tensions in the South China Sea.
“If the EU now with our strategic partnership is able to also join their voices to that, then that will be much stronger into terms of actually being able to enforce what UNCLOS is all about,” he added. Meanwhile, the Philippine Senate has referred to the Committees on National Defense and Foreign Relations the privilege speech made by Senator Francis Tolentino regarding a recent “bullying” by a Chinese vessel of the Philippine Navy in the West Philippine Sea.
They can also claim waters up to 200 nautical miles from the coast as an exclusive economic zone, where they have a sovereign right to the water column and sea floor as well as resources, but other countries still have the right to sail through or fly over the waters. He noted that the EU could act as a third party to “negotiate further these difficulties that we are all having to face with the problems in terms of territoriality in the South China Sea.”
President Marcos earlier said the Philippines would use the Hague ruling “to continue to assert our territorial rights.”
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