Agresibong aksiyon ng China sa resupply mission ng Pilipinas sa West Phl Sea, tinalakay ng National Maritime Council

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00:00The government is now laying out solutions to avoid confrontation between China and the Philippines in the West Philippine Sea.

00:08The government also did not consider China's aggressive actions against the Philippine troops as an armed attack.

00:16And they decided to deal with it in a diplomatic manner.

00:19This is the center of the news of Kenneth Paciente.

00:22Following the latest incident in the West Philippine Sea, the National Maritime Council held a second meeting

00:31led by the Presidential Office for Maritime Concerns or PMOC.

00:36Executive Secretary Lucas Beresamin said that the Executive Order No. 57 signed by President Ferdinand R. Marcos, Jr. last March

00:46discussed the current situation in the maritime security and maritime domain of the country.

00:51The maritime challenges of the Philippines do not only concern our defense and foreign affairs institutions.

01:00They also affect different sectors such as agriculture, fisheries, environment, energy, local governance, transportation, and justice.

01:13Therefore, managing our maritime concerns requires effective cooperation among various government agencies.

01:23And to ensure the arrangement of the next Rotation and Reprovision or ROREMISSION in the BRP Sierra Madre in Ayungin Shoal,

01:30the Council agreed to the policy recommendations on the EU that are just waiting for the approval of the President.

01:37This includes the announcement of the next ROREMISSION, which, according to the Council, will continue regularly.

01:44We just don't know that if the reason for this is there was no prior knowledge on the part of China that we were resupplying.

01:57They knew that we had to resupply, that we were resupplying. It's just a normal, routinary matter.

02:04So, in the best interest of all parties, I think it was a wise decision for the President to accept our recommendation

02:14to publicize the schedule for activities without giving up anything.

02:20There's nothing wrong with that.

02:23They also expressed concern about the so-called incident as a reason for forming policy recommendations.

02:29Even so, the executive on this matter trusted the President.

02:34Immediately, he asked the concerned Cabinet Secretaries to discuss the matter with him.

02:44And that's also the imprimatur why we have this National Maritime Council convened today.

02:53The government still does not consider the issue brought to the higher international body

02:59and insisted that the country is always prepared to deal with it through diplomacy.

03:03But is it time to use the Mutual Defense Treaty of the country with the United States,

03:08especially when there is a record of being injured on the Philippine coast?

03:11To be accurate with the status of our soldiers, there was only one who got injured.

03:20As earlier reported, there were like seven, but actually there's only one,

03:25Sgt. Facundo of the Philippine Navy.

03:29And that has not been your question about the invocation of the Mutual Defense Treaty.

03:38It has not been considered in our discussions.

03:48No. Well, you know, this was probably a misunderstanding or an accident.

03:53We are not yet ready to classify this as an armed attack.

03:58I don't know if what we saw were bullets or axes.

04:08Nothing beyond that.

04:09Despite the alleged incident, the PMOC insisted that the morale of the troops is still high

04:15and affirmed their commitment to the incident that happened this Monday.

04:20Kenneth, be patient.

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