DND Sec. Teodoro, iginiit na hindi gulo pero kapayapaan ang nais ng Pilipinas hinggil sa usapin ng West Phl Sea
DND Sec. Teodoro, iginiit na hindi gulo pero kapayapaan ang nais ng Pilipinas hinggil sa usapin ng West Phl Sea;
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00:00 "We are just protecting our rights in our territories."
00:04 This is what Defense Secretary Guilbo Choloro said in front of the meeting in West Philippine Sea.
00:10 According to the media, the country does not want to fight, but it needs to do what is right.
00:16 Patrick De Jesus was at the center of the news.
00:19 If there are speed over effects, we are not to blame.
00:24 We do not want to fight, we want peace.
00:30 This is what Defense Secretary Gilberto Teodoro Jr. gave as a statement
00:34 to the country's commitment to our rights in the West Philippine Sea.
00:38 At the Manila Overseas Press Club defense night last night,
00:41 the Secretary-General said that this is in accordance with the law
00:45 that was supported by the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea or UNCLOS.
00:50 He said that there is nothing to blame the Philippines for because the country is just doing what is right.
00:56 We are not the ones encroaching on the exclusive economic zone of another country.
01:04 The encroacher has a vast area of sea.
01:10 And if they ask us to meet them halfway when they have already eaten three-fourths of the way
01:17 to our exclusive economic zone, where is the fairness in that?
01:21 Just this month, at a bilateral consultation meeting in Shanghai,
01:25 the Philippines and China agreed to ease tensions in the West Philippine Sea
01:30 and to plant the seeds in a peaceful way.
01:33 But recently, the fishermen in Baudemarsin Loc, where the China Coast Guard returned,
01:42 caught a seashell and fish that they hoped to be used as food.
01:46 It cannot be based on formless dialogue where one party does not cease to expand its area of influence illegally
01:57 to the detriment of this smaller country.
02:00 In addition, Teodoro, any country must take advantage of our rights in our territory.
02:06 The bottom line is that the Philippine law, which is consistent with the full-blown, irrespective of culture,
02:16 that is the bottom line.
02:18 We cannot meet halfway with China in that because it is forcing us, without our choice,
02:25 to be its sole partner in developing those resources which rightly belong to Filipino citizens.
02:33 This is not China's property at all. The resources belong to us.
02:39 In modernization of the armed forces, Teodoro said that the purchase of new equipment,
02:46 the adaptation to domain awareness and intelligence,
02:50 to strengthen our area denial and deterrence capability in the sea and in the coastal areas.
02:57 Patrick de Azuz for the Bayan.
02:59 Parasabaya.