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MANILA, Philippines – US National Security Adviser Robert O’Brien has reiterated the United States ‘support for the Philippines’ fight for control of the Western Philippine Sea (WPS) by witnessing Washington’s donation $ 18 million worth of military equipment) to the Armed Forces of the Philippines.
O’Brien was received in the country by Foreign Minister Teodoro Locsin Jr. and other top government officials on Monday, more than a week after President Duterte suspended for another six months the repeal of the Visiting Forces Agreement between the two countries. .
US President Donald Trump’s top security adviser led the rotation of “smart bombs” and other weapons systems during a ceremony held at the main office of the Department of Foreign Relations in Pasay City.
“We support the Philippines in protecting its sovereign rights, its offshore resources and all those rights. [that] they are consistent with international law, ”O’Brien said in his speech.
“I just want to say that those resources belong to the children and grandchildren of the people here. They belong to the [Filipino] people, ”he said.
“They don’t belong to any other country that just because they can be bigger than the Philippines, they can take and convert the resources of the Filipino people. That’s wrong, ”he said.
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