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The Senate on Monday ratified the bicameral conference committee report on the proposed Philippine Maritime Zones Act, which China says will only make “the situation in the South China Sea more complex.”
“Once the bill becomes the Maritime Zones Act after the President signs it into law, the Philippines shall exercise all other maritime rights and jurisdictions per United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, the 2016 South China Sea arbitral award, international law, and other pertinent laws and regulations of the Philippines,” he pointed out.
China’s Foreign Ministry spokesperson Mao Ning has said the Philippines is attempting “to put a legal veneer on its illegal claims and actions in the South China Sea” through the proposed law. “Let this be the product of our independent thinking, planning and analysis. If that’s the result, then let’s discuss it extensively,” Pimentel said.
“Defense Secretary Gibo Teodoro and the AFP’s move to build a naval detachment in Casiguran, Aurora province was laudable as this would play a role in protecting and guarding the country’s eastern seaboard,” he said.
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