{"id":65060,"date":"2015-11-18T02:23:19","date_gmt":"2015-11-18T08:23:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=65060"},"modified":"2015-11-18T23:29:17","modified_gmt":"2015-11-19T05:29:17","slug":"aquino-thanks-obama-for-military-assistance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2015\/11\/18\/aquino-thanks-obama-for-military-assistance\/","title":{"rendered":"Aquino thanks Obama for military assistance"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_7049\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7049\" style=\"width: 604px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/ph4-041014_RV2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-7049\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/ph4-041014_RV2-1024x670.jpg\" alt=\"President Benigno &quot;Noynoy&quot; Aquino III (Photo from the Malaca\u00f1ang Photo Bureau\/Roberto Vi\u00f1as)\" width=\"604\" height=\"395\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/ph4-041014_RV2-1024x670.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/ph4-041014_RV2-300x196.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/ph4-041014_RV2.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 604px) 100vw, 604px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7049\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">President Benigno &#8220;Noynoy&#8221; Aquino III (Photo from the Malaca\u00f1ang Photo Bureau\/Roberto Vi\u00f1as)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA \u2013 President Benigno \u201cNoynoy\u201d Aquino III thanked the United States (US) for its military assistance to the Philippines amid continuing territorial disputes in the South China Sea.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe recognize, with the deepest appreciation, the significant contribution to our efforts by the United States\u2014contributions that help us ensure that we can ably respond to current security challenges, particularly in the area of maritime security and maritime domain awareness,\u201d Aquino said in a press briefing in Manila.<\/p>\n<p>Aquino mentioned that the US provided \u2018significant assistance,\u2019 which reports claimed to be around $20 million, in the construction of the National Coast Watch Center completed last year.<\/p>\n<p>With regards to the continued tension in the contested waters, both the US and the Philippines called on claimants to follow the international law and to resolve the issue in a diplomatic way.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI take this opportunity to reiterate the Philippines\u2019 view that the freedom of navigation and overflight in the South China Sea must be continuously upheld, consistent with international law,\u201d Aquino said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA \u2013 President Benigno \u201cNoynoy\u201d Aquino III thanked the United States (US) for its military assistance to the Philippines amid &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":7049,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,95],"tags":[249],"class_list":["post-65060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-news-ph","tag-rewrite","mauthors-cyra-moraleda","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65060","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=65060"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65060\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}