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00:00 The National Security Council and several agencies have denied that the Marcos Junior administration has an agreement with China regarding the Ayungin Shoal.
00:09 If that's the case, we can expect another issue in the West Philippine Sea from NSC Assistant Director General Jonathan Malaya. Good morning.
00:18 Yes. Good morning, Igor and good morning to all our listeners.
00:23 What is the explanation of Chinese Ambassador Wang Xilian regarding the so-called agreement?
00:30 Well, they have a right not to negotiate with the Philippine government under this administration.
00:40 They have an agreement.
00:43 But the position of our government is clear that no official of the government can negotiate with the People's Republic of China
00:52 without authorization from our President.
00:55 What we are saying to the National Security Council is that whoever is negotiated by China, it is not authorized,
01:02 low-ranking most probably, and the position of the Philippines is that we cannot negotiate if we cannot fight our interests.
01:13 Whatever the case, it is against the interests of our country.
01:18 It is also mentioned that NSC approved this. What is the fake news here?
01:24 Well Igor, the difficult thing here is that only one side is speaking here.
01:31 It is just the version of one party.
01:35 For there to be an agreement, both sides must come to some sort of agreement.
01:40 If the one negotiating with China does not have authorization from our government,
01:46 it means that there is no agreement that was fought.
01:49 So for us, this discussion about these agreements, as mentioned by National Security Advisor Eduardo Año,
01:57 this is absurd, preposterous, and ludicrous.
02:00 Who initiated this new model of this agreement? China?
02:08 This is the embassy of China. They created a chat group with members of the media.
02:16 In that chat group, they are the ones asking questions and they are the ones answering.
02:21 Their questions are all leading questions.
02:24 On the basis of the leading questions, they will answer.
02:28 They will post in that chat group.
02:30 The members of the media there will react, will ask comments from the government.
02:35 This is their way to express their narrative.
02:40 But the media is not asking that. They are asking that and they are the ones answering.
02:44 Okay. But the first secret agreement during the Duterte administration,
02:51 the Senate will investigate this. It is the Gentleman's Agreement.
02:56 Are you doing an investigation on this?
03:00 It is hard for us in the National Security Council to investigate this because this has something to do with the previous administration.
03:10 We were just seated here last year when National Security Advisor Eduardo Año was appointed as National Security Advisor.
03:20 We cannot investigate this. Maybe it is the right of the legislature and the Congress if they want to investigate as an equal branch of government.
03:33 On the camera, you have a lighthouse in your inshore. What is the reaction of the NSC?
03:42 Well, I understand that the Congress has put a fund in the General Appropriations Act this year for the development of a young inshore.
03:57 So it means that it is a law. That is the will of Congress to have a structure there, aside from the BRP, Madam Chair.
04:08 Our government cannot do anything but follow whatever is in the General Appropriations Act.
04:17 On the issue of the broken corals that were planted in the Sandy Caves, is it possible to use this to reverse the 2016 arbitral ruling?
04:29 Yes. This is how it is. There was an arbitral ruling of definitive classification of the islands there.
04:41 The arbitral tribunal said that the islands, like the Pag-asa case, are not islands per se.
04:51 If I'm not mistaken, they are high tide elevations or features only. They are not entitled to maritime entitlements.
05:01 Now, what China is doing is changing the physical features of the Pag-asa Sandy Cave 1, 2 and 3.
05:09 It is making it an artificial island, like what it did to the other islands that it occupied, like Miss Chief Ip.
05:15 If you change the topography or physical features of these islands, it will have an entitlement that is not good for us because Pag-asa Island,
05:30 Pag-asa case 1, 2 and 3, is included in the 12 nautical miles territorial zone.
05:35 According to Justice Carpio, what China wants to do is to change the physical features to disturb the decision of the arbitral tribunal in favor of the Philippines
05:49 because it is changing the physical features of the islands there.
05:53 It looks like we are in the art of war.
05:56 Thank you very much National Security Council Assistant Director General Jonathan Malaya. Thank you.
06:03 Thank you very much. Long live to you.
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