{"id":66023,"date":"2015-12-01T00:31:51","date_gmt":"2015-12-01T06:31:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=66023"},"modified":"2015-12-01T00:40:19","modified_gmt":"2015-12-01T06:40:19","slug":"ph-delivers-final-arguments-in-the-hague","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2015\/12\/01\/ph-delivers-final-arguments-in-the-hague\/","title":{"rendered":"PH delivers final arguments in The Hague"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Philippines’ delegates to the Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague.
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MANILA\u2014The Philippines has delivered yesterday its final arguments on the disputed West Philippine Sea before the Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague.<\/p>\n

The country is entrusting its fate to the arbitration court that upholds the rule of law, Foreign Affairs Secretary Albert del Rosario told the tribunal.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe confidently entrust our fate, the fate of the region and, indeed, the fate of the Convention to you,\u201d del Rosario was quoted as saying in a Philippine Star report.<\/p>\n

The country branded China\u2019s claim to the West Philippine Sea as \u201cquaint aspiration of a time now past.\u201d China has earlier claimed sovereignty of the West Philippine Sea in the grounds of \u201chistorical fact\u201d and its nine-dash line imposed on the disputed sea. Aside from the Philippines, other Southeast Asian countries have appealed China\u2019s claim.<\/p>\n

Del Rosario told the tribunal that it must decide on the case using the United Nations Convention of the Laws of the Seas (UNCLOS) alone, or else, the decision \u201cwould leave the Philippines, and its ASEAN neighbors, in worse straits than when we embarked on this arbitral voyage.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThat said, your mandate to achieve justice is not carried out in a vacuum. Judges and arbitrators are not expected to be oblivious to the realities on the ground,\u201d Del Rosario added in the same report<\/p>\n

Del Rosario also said that if the tribunal would favor China, it would convert its nine-dash line into a \u201cBerlin Wall of the Sea\u201d, a \u201c\u201cgiant fence, owned by, and excluding everyone but, China itself.\u201d<\/p>\n

He also stressed the objective UNCLOS; to maintain and strengthen international peace and security.<\/p>\n

\u201cNothing would contribute more to these objectives than the tribunal\u2019s finding that China\u2019s rights and obligations are neither more nor less than those established by UNCLOS,\u201d del Rosario said the same report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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