{"id":218563,"date":"2019-06-12T21:07:22","date_gmt":"2019-06-13T01:07:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=218563"},"modified":"2019-06-12T21:07:22","modified_gmt":"2019-06-13T01:07:22","slug":"dfa-awaits-wps-task-force-report-on-chinese-ph-boats-collision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2019\/06\/12\/dfa-awaits-wps-task-force-report-on-chinese-ph-boats-collision\/","title":{"rendered":"DFA awaits WPS task force report on Chinese, PH boats collision"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_216809\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-216809\" style=\"width: 1350px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/SFA_ASEM7.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-216809\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/SFA_ASEM7.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1350\" height=\"900\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/SFA_ASEM7.jpg 1350w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/SFA_ASEM7-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1350px) 100vw, 1350px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-216809\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">&#8220;Let us wait for the West Philippine (Sea) Task Force to give the sort of facts on the basis of which I fire off diplomatic protests,&#8221; he wrote on his official Twitter (PCOO file photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>MANILA<\/strong>&#8212; The Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) is waiting for an official report from the National Task Force for the West Philippine Sea (NTF-WPS) on the collision of a Chinese vessel and a Filipino fishing boat in the South China Sea last Sunday, Foreign Affairs Secretary Teodoro Locsin, Jr. said Wednesday night.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Let us wait for the West Philippine (Sea) Task Force to give the sort of facts on the basis of which I fire off diplomatic protests,&#8221; he wrote on his official Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana earlier reported that a collision between the two vessels near Recto Bank on June 9 has resulted in the sinking of the Filipino fishing boat.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement, Lorenzana denounced the actions of the Chinese fishing vessel &#8220;for immediately leaving the scene of the incident, abandoning the 22 Filipino crewmen to the mercy of the elements.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Filipino fishing boat GIMVER was anchored at the time when it was hit by the Chinese vessel. The Filipinos were later rescued by a Vietnamese ship within the vicinity.<\/p>\n<p>The DND has already ordered a formal investigation on the incident.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA&#8212; The Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) is waiting for an official report from the National Task Force for the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":216809,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-218563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-news-ph","mauthors-joyce-ann-l-rocamora","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218563","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=218563"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218563\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":218565,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218563\/revisions\/218565"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/216809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}