{"id":166736,"date":"2018-06-10T05:29:23","date_gmt":"2018-06-10T09:29:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=166736"},"modified":"2018-06-10T05:29:23","modified_gmt":"2018-06-10T09:29:23","slug":"no-truth-on-duterte-order-to-stop-wps-patrols-afp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/06\/10\/no-truth-on-duterte-order-to-stop-wps-patrols-afp\/","title":{"rendered":"No truth on Duterte order to stop WPS patrols: AFP"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_164195\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-164195\" style=\"width: 415px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Col.-Edgard-Arevalo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-164195\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Col.-Edgard-Arevalo.jpg\" alt=\"Arevalo added that military air and sea patrols are ongoing as it is part of its mandate of protecting the country's sovereignty and territorial integrity. (PNA photo)\" width=\"415\" height=\"260\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Col.-Edgard-Arevalo.jpg 415w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Col.-Edgard-Arevalo-300x188.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 415px) 100vw, 415px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-164195\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Arevalo added that military air and sea patrols are ongoing as it is part of its mandate of protecting the country&#8217;s sovereignty and territorial integrity. (PNA photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0&#8212; There are no orders coming from President Rodrigo Duterte directing the military to stop patrolling the West Philippine Sea.<\/p>\n<p>This was the remark of Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) spokesperson Col. Edgard Arevalo in an interview with DZBB radio on Sunday, after opposition lawmaker Magdalo party-list Rep. Gary Alejano claimed that Duterte ordered the AFP to stop patrolling the disputed West Philippine Sea.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We did not receive such information, we have contacted our AFP chief (Gen. Carlito Galvez, Jr.) and our Western Command in Palawan, and all of them said that the Commander-in-Chief did not issue such an order,&#8221; he said in Filipino.<\/p>\n<p>Arevalo added that military air and sea patrols are ongoing as it is part of its mandate of protecting the country&#8217;s sovereignty and territorial integrity.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Your AFP is continuing to perform its mandate,&#8221; he stressed.<\/p>\n<p>Special Assistant to the President Christopher Lawrence &#8220;Bong&#8221; Go had earlier clarified that Duterte did not order the AFP to stop guarding the disputed area.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe president will not order that. First of all, what\u2019s ours is ours. We will patrol in those areas,\u201d Go said on Saturday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u00a0&#8212; There are no orders coming from President Rodrigo Duterte directing the military to stop patrolling the West Philippine Sea. &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":164195,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1145,16,95],"tags":[3244,13339,2444,3370],"class_list":["post-166736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headline","category-news","category-news-ph","tag-armed-forces-of-the-philippines","tag-edgard-arevalo","tag-rodrigo-duterte","tag-west-philippine-sea","mauthors-priam-nepomuceno","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166736","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=166736"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166736\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/164195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}