{"id":93758,"date":"2017-03-13T19:06:10","date_gmt":"2017-03-13T23:06:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=93758"},"modified":"2017-03-13T19:06:10","modified_gmt":"2017-03-13T23:06:10","slug":"dfa-phl-government-will-protect-its-sovereign-rights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/03\/13\/dfa-phl-government-will-protect-its-sovereign-rights\/","title":{"rendered":"DFA: PHL government will protect its sovereign rights"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_93268\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-93268\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/13179310_789765451159351_8232564273061419151_n.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-93268\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/13179310_789765451159351_8232564273061419151_n.png\" alt=\"The Philippines' claim to Benham Rise, a 13-million-hectare area is located east of Luzon island believed to be gas-rich, was approved by the United Nations in 2012.(Photo: Benham Rise\/Facebook)\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/13179310_789765451159351_8232564273061419151_n.png 640w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/13179310_789765451159351_8232564273061419151_n-300x169.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-93268\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Philippines&#8217; claim to Benham Rise, a 13-million-hectare area is located east of Luzon island believed to be gas-rich, was approved by the United Nations in 2012.(Photo: Benham Rise\/Facebook)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA \u2013The Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) on Monday said the Philippine government will protect the country&#8217;s sovereign rights like the Benham Rise off east of Luzon.<\/p>\n<p>DFA Spokesman and Assistant Secretary Charles Jose said every nation needs to protect their territory against any aggressor.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cStrengthening our capability is our way to assert and protect our sovereign rights and jurisdiction over our maritime entitlements,\u201d Jose told reporters covering DFA in a text message.<\/p>\n<p>He did not elaborate how and what form to protect our sovereign rights.<\/p>\n<p>The Philippines&#8217; claim to Benham Rise, a 13-million-hectare area is located east of Luzon island believed to be gas-rich, was approved by the United Nations in 2012.<\/p>\n<p>China&#8217;s foreign ministry spokesperson Geng Shuang had acknowledged the 2012 ruling of the United Nations but said \u201cit does not mean that the Philippines can take it as its own territory.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Geng confirmed Chinese vessels for \u201cmarine research\u201d passed through Benham Rise, but insisted this was only in exercise of the principle of \u201cfreedom of navigation\u201d and \u201cright to innocent passage.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA \u2013The Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) on Monday said the Philippine government will protect the country&#8217;s sovereign rights like &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":93268,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1145,16,95],"tags":[204,4790,16547],"class_list":["post-93758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headline","category-news","category-news-ph","tag-dfa","tag-philippine-government","tag-sovereignty","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93758","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=93758"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93758\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/93268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}