{"id":165588,"date":"2018-05-30T06:42:28","date_gmt":"2018-05-30T10:42:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=165588"},"modified":"2018-05-30T06:42:28","modified_gmt":"2018-05-30T10:42:28","slug":"cayetano-says-that-ph-filed-several-dozens-of-diplomatic-protests-vs-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/05\/30\/cayetano-says-that-ph-filed-several-dozens-of-diplomatic-protests-vs-china\/","title":{"rendered":"Cayetano says that PH filed \u2018several dozens\u2019 of diplomatic protests vs China"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Cayetano assured that the government is doing its job by conducting diplomatic actions and giving assurances (Photo<\/a>: Alan Peter Cayetano\/Facebook<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Amid critics slamming the administration\u2019s stance on the West Philippine Sea (WPS), Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) Secretary Alan Peter Cayetano stressed that the Philippine government filed diplomatic protests against China for the past two years but chose to not publicize it.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have been filing a diplomatic protest. But the critics want us to announce it loudly and to confront China each and every time to the media. That is not conducive through the ongoing talks,\u201d Cayetano said during the briefing by the National Task Force for the West Philippine Sea on May 30, Wednesday.<\/p>\n

\u201cSeveral dozens. Maybe 50, 100. I have to count it over the past two years,\u201d he said, referring to the number of the said protests filed.<\/p>\n

Cayetano assured that the government is doing its job by conducting diplomatic actions and giving assurances. He said that the government, through its involved agencies, has been consistent by saying that it is taking matters through diplomacy; however, not everything has to be announced through the media.<\/p>\n

Earlier on May 21, the DFA issued a statement saying that it closely monitors the developments in the WPS, but is not required to \u201cpublicize every action.\u201d<\/p>\n

(Read: PH closely monitors WPS, South China Sea developments<\/a>)<\/p>\n

\u201cWhile appropriate language, whether expressions of condemnation or concern, over certain developments are clearly conveyed through diplomatic channels, it is not our policy to publicize every action taken by the Philippine Government whenever there are reported developments taking place in the West Philippine Sea and the South China Sea,\u201d it said.<\/p>\n

During the briefing, Magdalo party-list Representative Gary Alejano who slammed Cayetano, saying that the Philippines lost control over Sandy Cay, also confronted the Foreign Affairs Secretary.<\/p>\n

According to Alejano, he understands Cayetano\u2019s point and the DFA policy that the government\u2019s moves cannot be discussed in detail. However, he said that there are still pieces of information that are for public consumption\u00a0\u2013\u00a0 which includes national security and national interest \u2013\u00a0for the people to understand the direction that the country is taking.<\/p>\n

Cayetano replied by reassuring that the administration has the national interest at heart, however, said that critics want the government to \u2018loudly protest.\u2019<\/p>\n

\u201cBy not loudly protesting, we are losing out, or pumapayag tayo<\/em> (we are allowing),\u201d the DFA secretary cited an example of some reasons by critics, but added that this mentality or reasoning has \u201cno basis on the law.\u201d<\/p>\n

He also emphasized that diplomatic actions take time and planning, but with the media reporting the developments, conflict occurs when it comes to the timing of the actions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Amid critics slamming the administration\u2019s stance on the West Philippine Sea (WPS), Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) Secretary Alan Peter …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":92307,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1145,16,95],"tags":[3374,420,16707,3370],"class_list":["post-165588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headline","category-news","category-news-ph","tag-alan-peter-cayetano","tag-china","tag-gary-alejano","tag-west-philippine-sea","mauthors-bea-kirstein-t-manalaysay","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165588","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=165588"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165588\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/92307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}