The placement of navigational buoys in the West Philippine Sea is the country’s way of asserting sovereignty and ensuring safe navigation, National Security Adviser (NSA) Eduardo Año said.
The Philippines will send the two new Israel-made gunboats to the West Philippine Sea to boost patrols in the disputed region, according to President Ferdinand Marcos Jr.
Camarines Sur Rep. LRay Villafuerte on Sunday expressed optimism that the joint marine patrol between the Philippines and Australia in the West Philippine Sea will happen soon.
Having a different West Philippine Sea strategy with every administration, according to Senator Alan Peter Cayetano, is “a recipe for failure.”
Security cooperation with the United States would “just keep going,” President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. said.
Cagayan de Oro Rep. Rufus Rodriguez urged President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. to recall the Philippine ambassador to Beijing as a show of protest over the recent near-collision incident in Ayungin shoal.
Pinamamadali ni Senator Jinggoy Estrada ang modernisasyon ng PCG upang agad na makatugon sa mga maritime emergencies at security ng bansa.
Sa pagbisita ng senador sa lalawigan ng Mindoro, napuna nito ang kakulangan sa mga barkong nagbabantay sa West Philippine Sea at dapat itong bigyan ng agarang kaukulang pansin ng gobyerno.
President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. and Chinese Foreign Minister Qin Gang agreed “to establish more lines of communications” to immediately resolve any conflict in the West Philippine Sea.
Speaker Ferdinand Martin Romualdez said the late Foreign Affairs Secretary Albert del Rosario will be remembered for his strong and consistent defense of the West Philippine Sea.
The government is “very serious” in its efforts to modernize the Philippine Air Force, President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. said.
