{"id":165571,"date":"2018-05-30T04:50:45","date_gmt":"2018-05-30T08:50:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=165571"},"modified":"2018-05-30T04:50:45","modified_gmt":"2018-05-30T08:50:45","slug":"govt-to-raise-south-china-sea-arbitration-ruling-at-proper-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/05\/30\/govt-to-raise-south-china-sea-arbitration-ruling-at-proper-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Gov\u2019t to raise South China Sea arbitration ruling \u2018at proper time\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"
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National Security Adviser Secretary Hermogenes Esperon Jr. said Duterte has decided to temporarily shelve the tribunal ruling \u201cin line with the efforts of government at promoting peace, stability, and cordial relations among claimant countries in the region\u201d. (PNA photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0— Despite China\u2019s refusal to recognize the arbitration ruling on the South China Sea, the Philippines will take full advantage of it \u201cat the proper time\u201d to assert its maritime claims in the West Philippine Sea (WPS).<\/p>\n

National Security Adviser Secretary Hermogenes Esperon Jr. made this assurance Wednesday amid criticisms that the Duterte administration has abandoned the 2016 United Nations-backed Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA)\u2019s decision nullifying China\u2019s 9-dash line map which covers nearly the whole of South China Sea (SCS).<\/p>\n

\u201cThis administration does not and will not abandon the ruling of the Permanent Court of Arbitration on the South China Sea disputes,\u201d Esperon said in a press statement.<\/p>\n

He said Duterte has decided to temporarily shelve the tribunal ruling \u201cin line with the efforts of government at promoting peace, stability, and cordial relations among claimant countries in the region\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cAt the proper time, we will take full advantage of the tribunal ruling, even as China refuses to recognize this, to serve as basis for the country\u2019s exercise of sovereignty and jurisdiction over features that are in the Philippine territorial waters,\u201d Esperon said.<\/p>\n

He said the government \u201ccontinuously\u201d monitors China\u2019s deployment of missiles in the three artificial islands within the Philippines\u2019 exclusive economic zone (EEZ).<\/p>\n

In a House briefing on Wednesday, Duterte’s top security adviser said filing a diplomatic protest against China for its landing of bombers on Woody Island in the Paracels being claimed by Vietnam, but not by the Philippines, was unnecessary.<\/p>\n

He said the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) had been raising China\u2019s militarization and other WPS concerns at the Bilateral Consultative Mechanism (BCM) between China and the Philippines.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Philippine government has not been remiss in undertaking diplomatic actions against any nation,\u201d Esperon said.<\/p>\n

Duterte had repeatedly said he won\u2019t take a \u201cviolent\u201d action in asserting the country\u2019s sovereignty in the WPS,
\nexplaining that war against China would mean great losses for Filipino soldiers and for the country.<\/p>\n

The Filipino leader, however, had told Chinese leader Xi Jingping in one of their previous bilateral meetings that he would bring up the PCA ruling again before he steps down in 2022.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Esperon confirmed that the Philippine government is presently upgrading port and airstrip facilities in Pag-asa Island to promote the welfare of Filipinos living in the 32.2-hectare island.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is necessary for trade, the preservation of the livelihood of the fisher folk, and the timely delivery of basic necessities of the community in the municipality of Pag-asa,\u201d Esperon said.<\/p>\n

He said lighthouses are being constructed as part of the country\u2019s responsibility under the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) to provide navigational safety for all international vessels transiting the WPS.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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