PBBM, handang makipag-usap kay dating Pangulong Duterte kaugnay sa nilalaman ng umano'y 'secret agreement' sa Ayungin Shoal
PBBM, handang makipag-usap kay dating Pangulong Duterte kaugnay sa nilalaman ng umano'y 'secret agreement' sa Ayungin Shoal
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00:00 President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. has questions regarding the so-called secret agreement
00:06 between former President Rodrigo Duterte and China
00:08 regarding the Ayungin Shoal.
00:10 That's why he's ready to talk to the former president
00:13 to discuss this.
00:14 This is what Alan Francisco wrote.
00:16 So, now, with the confirmation of the Chinese embassy,
00:24 we now know that there was a secret agreement.
00:27 That's what President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. gave
00:31 in connection with the so-called secret agreement
00:33 between the administration of former President Rodrigo Duterte and China
00:37 to the Ayungin Shoal in the West Philippine Sea.
00:40 In an interview with President Marcos here in Washington, D.C.,
00:43 he said that he has questions regarding the Omanoy Gentlemen's Agreement.
00:47 First, if there's really a agreement,
00:50 what does it contain, and why is it secret?
00:54 What was the promise of the Duterte administration to China?
00:59 Because we don't know yet.
01:01 We just now realized that there's really an agreement.
01:08 They call it the Gentlemen's Agreement.
01:10 I call it the secret agreement.
01:12 The president is wondering why, like former President Duterte,
01:16 a lawyer, decided not to document, record, or announce the agreement.
01:22 We don't know. There's no document.
01:25 I don't understand.
01:27 President Duterte is a very experienced lawyer.
01:31 All lawyers want to document everything.
01:35 Why is there no document, not even a single paper?
01:38 Why is there no video?
01:40 Why is there no announcement? Nothing.
01:43 Now, President Marcos is ready to talk to Duterte to discuss this.
01:49 Send it to me, and then we'll sit down.
01:52 Send those documents to me, and then we'll sit down and discuss it.
01:56 I'll do my homework first.
01:59 That's the way I work.
02:01 I read all the material first so that when I'm actually in the meeting conference,
02:08 I can ask intelligent questions.
02:10 So send me the material personally to me.
02:14 Not to DOJ or DFA, but to me.
02:19 We have a lot of common friends.
02:22 Send them to me. I'll study.
02:25 Then we'll talk.
02:27 President Duterte also disagreed with the idea of entering into a secret agreement in China
02:32 that could put a threat to the country.
02:35 It should be known by all the local officials.
02:38 It should be known by everyone.
02:40 Because that way, you're accountable.
02:45 If it's a bad decision, you're accountable.
02:48 They'll say, "You did it wrong."
02:51 What are you hiding?
02:54 Why didn't you say, "What are you hiding? Why was it secret?"
03:00 And in this suggestion, President Marcos should ask his cabinet,
03:05 in particular, National Secretary Advisor Eduardo Año,
03:10 who was the former Secretary of the Duterte Administration,
03:12 to answer the President.
03:14 We've talked about it.
03:16 He's not included in the discussion.
03:20 He was part of the cabinet, but he wasn't part of the discussion.
03:26 So he said that he had some vague knowledge that we were talking to China.
03:34 The President also did not allow the former President Duterte to attack him personally.
03:39 Yeah, I saw that.
03:41 You know, to be a crybaby, you have to cry.
03:43 Did you see me cry?
03:45 [laughs]
03:47 I don't pay any attention to that.
03:51 I really don't.
03:53 That means absolutely nothing to me.
03:57 And, you know, again, the former President is a highly experienced lawyer.
04:03 He should know that ad hominem attacks like that
04:07 really have no place in this kind of very important and very precarious discussions.
04:19 President Marcos defended Vice President and Education Secretary Sara Duterte
04:24 in favor of the silence on the South China Sea issue.
04:28 According to President Marcos, the government is a part of VP Sara,
04:32 but it has no place in the opposition's opinion as the secretarygeneral of the DEPED
04:37 to discuss China.
04:39 That's not the role of a Vice President or a Secretary of Education to talk about China.
04:44 So I think we are all in line because I'm very sure that if Inday Sara
04:52 had some very serious misgivings about what we are doing in terms of foreign policy,
04:57 she will bring them to me.
04:59 And she, when we were talking, she said, "I'm just doing my job."
05:06 I said, "Well, that's a good policy."
05:08 So I don't think that it's something that we need to be concerned with.
05:13 The President also supported the speculation that the trilateral agreement between the Philippines,
05:18 the United States, and Japan could affect the influential economy of China in the country.
05:23 This is separate from any proposed or potential Chinese investments in the Philippines.
05:32 How do I see how it will affect? I don't see that it will affect one way or the other.
05:39 President Marcos strengthened his alliance with the United States and Japan
05:42 that he will give importance to the future of the Indo-Pacific region.
05:47 From Washington, D.C., Alan Francisco.
05:50 for Pambansang TV in Bagong, Philippines.