{"id":218646,"date":"2019-06-13T20:44:23","date_gmt":"2019-06-14T00:44:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=218646"},"modified":"2019-06-13T20:44:23","modified_gmt":"2019-06-14T00:44:23","slug":"malacanang-dismisses-call-to-recall-ph-envoys-to-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2019\/06\/13\/malacanang-dismisses-call-to-recall-ph-envoys-to-china\/","title":{"rendered":"Malaca\u00f1ang dismisses call to recall PH envoys to China"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\u201cWe don\u2019t need the advice of the good senator on that.\u00a0Bahala na si\u00a0(We\u2019ll leave it to) Secretary Locsin,\u201d Panelo said. (File Photo<\/a>: Office of the Presidential Spokesperson\/Facebook<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0— Malaca\u00f1ang on Thursday shrugged off calls made by a senator asking the Duterte administration to consider recalling Philippine ambassador and consuls to China after a Chinese fishing vessel crew allegedly abandoned a sinking Filipino fishing boat in a “collision” in Recto Bank (Reed Bank) in the West Philippine Sea.<\/p>\n

Presidential Spokesperson Salvador Panelo, however, said he will leave the decision to withdraw envoys to Foreign Affairs Secretary Teodoro Locsin Jr.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe don\u2019t need the advice of the good senator on that.\u00a0Bahala na si<\/em>\u00a0(We\u2019ll leave it to) Secretary Locsin,\u201d Panelo said.<\/p>\n

Senator Risa Hontiveros asked the government to withdraw Philippine envoys to China, condemning the acts of the China crew as \u201cdespicable\u201d and \u201cinhumane.\u201d<\/p>\n

Panelo said the government is considering \u201call options\u201d to resolve issues between the Philippines and China after the collision.<\/p>\n

He also rejected anew former Foreign Affairs Secretary Albert del Rosario\u2019s suggestion to consider multilateral talks with other parties to make China\u2019s leadership accountable.<\/p>\n

Panelo insisted that bilateral negotiations between the Philippines and China are currently the \u201cmost effective\u201d way to resolve the dispute over the contested waters.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe (del Rosario) doesn\u2019t have to tell us what to do. We know what to do,\u201d Panelo said.<\/p>\n

\u201cDapat ginawa nila \u2018yan noon, noong sila\u2019y nandiyan pa<\/em>\u00a0(They should have done it before when they were still in office),\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

On April, University of the Philippines\u2019 Institute for Maritime Affairs and Law of the Sea Director Jay Batongbacal suggested that it is time to go multilateral since the bilateral approach is ineffective.<\/p>\n

Panelo justified President Rodrigo Duterte\u2019s preference for bilateral negotiations over multilateral talks with other parties since the sea row is a problem the two countries should settle on their own.<\/p>\n

Panelo earlier asked Chinese authorities to sanction the crew of a Chinese fishing vessel, describing the abandonment of a sinking Filipino ship \u201coutrageous, barbaric, and uncivilized.\u201d<\/p>\n

Locsin, meanwhile, said his agency has already filed a diplomatic protest against China over the collision of its vessel with a Philippine vessel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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