{"id":236778,"date":"2019-11-06T19:23:16","date_gmt":"2019-11-07T00:23:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=236778"},"modified":"2019-11-06T19:23:16","modified_gmt":"2019-11-07T00:23:16","slug":"palace-backs-dfa-plan-to-protest-chinas-warning-flares-in-wps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2019\/11\/06\/palace-backs-dfa-plan-to-protest-chinas-warning-flares-in-wps\/","title":{"rendered":"Palace backs DFA plan to protest China’s warning flares in WPS"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\u201cIf that\u2019s true then we have to object to that. As the Secretary of Foreign Affairs says, we will have to file a diplomatic protest,\u201d Presidential Spokesman Salvador Panelo said in a Palace press briefing. (File Photo:<\/a> Office of the Presidential Spokesperson\/Facebook<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0— Malaca\u00f1ang on Wednesday supported the plan of Foreign Affairs Secretary Teodoro Locsin Jr. to file a diplomatic protest against China over the alleged firing of warning flares at a Philippine military aircraft patrolling the West Philippine Sea.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf that\u2019s true then we have to object to that. As the Secretary of Foreign Affairs says, we will have to file a diplomatic protest,\u201d Presidential Spokesman Salvador Panelo said in a Palace press briefing.<\/p>\n

On Tuesday, Armed Forces of the Philippines Deputy Chief of Staff for Intelligence, Maj. Gen. Reuben Basiao bared to a House panel that there have been six flare warnings against Philippine military aircraft this year.<\/p>\n

Locsin, on his official Twitter account, said he will file a diplomatic protest against China when the National Intelligence Coordinating Agency confirms the report.<\/p>\n

Panelo said Palace will adopt the stand of both Locsin and Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana, who said China\u2019s flares do not prevent their vessels and aircraft from patrolling.<\/p>\n

Asked if he agreed with Basiao\u2019s remark that China is seen as \u201cthe most aggressive\u201d among the claimants in the South China Sea, Panelo noted the importance of practicing self-restraint.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you\u2019re doing things that will aggravate the situation there, there is already a tension there,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

\u201cPrecisely that is the common stand of the Asean members. That there should be an exercise of self-restraint among those who are claimants so that it will not aggravate the situation there,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

Besides China, other countries with overlapping claims in the resource-rich South China Sea are the Philippines, Vietnam, Malaysia, and Brunei.<\/p>\n

On July 12, 2016, the Philippines won its arbitration case filed against China in 2013, nullifying China\u2019s nine-dash line claims of nearly the entire South China Sea, including part of the Philippines\u2019 exclusive economic zone.<\/p>\n

The Hague-based Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA) found \u201cno legal basis\u201d for China to claim historic rights to resources within the sea areas falling within the \u2018nine-dash line\u201d but China refused to recognize this.<\/p>\n

Leaders of Asean and China target to have completed a Code of Conduct (COC) on the South China Sea by 2021 to provide a set of guidelines to follow to avoid any conflict in those waters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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