A senior lawmaker on Thursday urged China to withdraw all its ships from the West Philippine Sea (WPS) to show good faith in its offer to resolve territorial disputes with the Philippines in the area.
A senior lawmaker on Thursday urged China to withdraw all its ships from the West Philippine Sea to show good faith in its offer to resolve territorial disputes with the Philippines in the area.
For his part, President Marcos said he received President Xi’s promise for a compromise and solution that could allow Filipino fishermen to operate in their historic fishing grounds. Days before President Marcos flew to Beijing, the Philippine military reported a “swarming” of Chinese vessels in the WPS. Rodriguez welcomed President Xi’s statement, saying, “It’s a good starting point for talks.”
Before stepping down in June last year, then President Duterte ended talks with Beijing due to what then Foreign Affairs Secretary Teodoro Tocsin Jr. described as unresolved sovereignty and territorial issues.Meanwhile, House Deputy Minority Leader and ACT Teachers Party-list Rep. France Castro called on Marcos to be transparent on all the deals he and his delegation signed with China so that the public can scrutinize these agreements.
Castro also noted that there is a provision in the 1987 Constitution and a Constitutional Commission transcript stating that loan agreements must be submitted to Congress before they are executed, and “we hope that the recently signed loan agreements with China would be forwarded to Congress for scrutiny.
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