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MANILA, Philippines – Senator Panfilo Lacson praised President Rodrigo Duterte on Wednesday for affirming the Philippines’ arbitration victory over China over the South China Sea and said he should now eradicate doubts about the CEO’s position in the Manila land dispute. with Beijing.
“Alipin no more!” Lacson said in a tweet.
No more slave!
Hearing the president invoke the award before the UN General Assembly while firmly rejecting any attempt to undermine it should erase any doubts about his position on the issue of the WPS.– PING LACSON (@iampinglacson) September 23, 2020
Hearing the president invoke the award before the UN General Assembly while firmly rejecting any attempt to undermine it should erase doubts about his position on the CM. [West Philippine Sea] problem, “added the senator.
Manila and Beijing have long been mired in a maritime dispute and in 2013, the Philippines filed a case before the Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA) in The Hague challenging China’s broad claim over almost the entire South China Sea, including parts of the Philippines. Western. Sea.
In July 2016, the Hague-based court ruled in favor of the Philippines invalidating China’s nine-line claim, but Beijing has repeatedly refused to acknowledge the ruling.
Duterte has been criticized for overturning the landmark 2016 arbitration ruling and also received criticism for saying it was “useless” and “can do nothing” to counter China’s aggression in the South China Sea.
But the president, during the UN General Assembly, said that the Manila victory is “now part of international law, beyond compromise and beyond the reach of passing governments to dilute, diminish or abandon.”
/ MUF
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