• 7 months ago
Former Pres. Duterte denies his administration entered into gentleman's agreement with China
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00:00 The alleged gentleman's agreement a former spokesperson of previous administration
00:05 Claims to have transpired back then is being vehemently denied by the former president
00:11 But the Chinese foreign ministry insists otherwise
00:14 Hence a probe on the matter is in order to ascertain the truth as our Patrick de Jesus reports
00:21 Former president Rodrigo Duterte denied his
00:27 Administration entered into a gentleman's agreement with China on the issue of West Philippine Sea
00:33 But he admits to agreeing to keep the status quo to maintain peace
00:37 But China insists having such agreement under the Duterte administration
00:42 And now they claim the Philippines is the one violating it by sending construction
00:49 materials to be a pishera madre in a human soul
00:53 President Ferdinand R. Marcos jr. Has maintained not seeing a document pertaining to what he called a
00:59 Horrifying agreement and if there is such a thing in existence
01:04 It will not be recognized for an expert any agreement on our territory can be considered illegal
01:11 that agreement
01:13 Agreement
01:18 That is in violation of the Philippine Constitution and the value a violation of the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea and a
01:25 violation of the 2016 Arbitral Award
01:27 What is our claim there?
01:29 Our claim there is the fact that
01:31 Second Thamas Shoal is located within our 200 nautical mile EEZ
01:36 meaning we have the exclusive rights to exploit and explore for resources and also the exclusive right to
01:43 build artificial structures, so
01:48 Whom my decide man on Filipinas now we reinforce that vessel and maybe build a structure on top of it
01:55 That's within our rights under international law
01:57 Meanwhile or Daniel said the trilateral summit between the Philippines US and Japan and benefit us
02:04 Particularly in the tension in West Philippine Sea the three countries have also released joint statement
02:11 Which expressed serious concern on the continued harassment by China before this the three countries?
02:18 including Australia took part in the first
02:20 multilateral maritime cooperative activity in the West Philippine Sea
02:25 According to or Daniel similar activities should be held with other allied countries
02:31 Amidst what he called gray coercion by China. We maintain our presence and effective jurisdiction
02:37 some areas night or height name a monga ganong monga
02:41 activities on China in other words the time of a so-called by default dahil na
02:47 Cool and I don't know cool on sabar call and cool on sub fuel or not cool on the result. So I think more
02:52 Maritime cooperative activities like what happened recently should be done
02:56 With the United States and our other important partners like Japan and Australia the trilateral meeting also addressed
03:03 Investments and climate change which is proof of recognition by the countries on their strong relationship
03:10 Patrick the Azuz from the national TV for a new and better Philippines

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