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关键词:arbitral ruling with China
概念:
“PRESIDENT RODRIGO DUTERTE IS READY TO SET ASIDE THE 2016 ARBITRAL RULING ON THE WEST PHILIPPINE SEA [SOUTH CHINA SEA] TO MAKE WAY FOR THE JOINT OIL AND GAS EXPLORATION WITH BEIJING,” THE MANILA TIMES REPORTED.
DEL ROSARIO CITED AS A BASIS THE PREVIOUS SUGGESTION OF SUPREME COURT SENIOR ASSOCIATE JUSTICE ANTONIO CARPIO THAT AN OIL AND GAS DEVELOPMENT IN THE WEST PHILIPPINE SEA WITH CHINA WOULD BE CONSTITUTIONAL AND CONSISTENT WITH THE ARBITRAL RULING IF CHINA PARTICIPATES “THROUGH A PHILIPPINE SERVICE CONTRACT—WHICH AFFIRMS PHILIPPINE SOVEREIGN RIGHTS.”
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“THE RECENT DECLARATION BY THE PRESIDENT THAT HE WILL ‘IGNORE’ THE ARBITRAL RULING UPHOLDING THE PHILIPPINE EXCLUSIVE ECONOMIC ZONE (EEZ) IN THE WEST PHILIPPINE SEA TO PAVE THE WAY FOR A JOINT OIL AND GAS EXPLORATION AGREEMENT WITH CHINA IS PROFOUNDLY DISAPPOINTING AND EXTREMELY IRRESPONSIBLE,” ROBREDO SAID.
ASKED WHAT HIS PLANS ARE FOLLOWING CHINA’S REJECTION OF THE ARBITRAL RULING, DUTERTE SAID: “QUO VADIS, PHILIPPINES?” (WHERE ARE YOU GOING, PHILIPPINES?)
WHILE DUTERTE DID NOT GO INTO GREAT DETAIL, HE SAID XI MADE THE OFFER AT THE RECENT MEETING BETWEEN THE TWO LEADERS IN BEIJING ON AUG. 29, DURING WHICH XI REPORTEDLY REJECTED DUTERTE'S DEMAND THAT CHINA ABIDE BY THE RULING. INSTEAD, XI ALLEGEDLY OFFERED THE PHILIPPINES A CONTROLLING SHARE OF A JOINT VENTURE PROJECT THAT WOULD TAKE PLACE WITHIN THE PHILIPPINE’S OWN EXCLUSIVE ECONOMIC ZONE (EEZ).
ANY AGREEMENT TO FORGET THE ARBITRAL AWARD AND TEAM UP WITH CHINA WOULD BE A MAJOR SETBACK TO OTHER CLAIMANTS, ESPECIALLY VIETNAM AND MALAYSIA, WHICH LIKE THE PHILIPPINES HAVE EXPERIENCED REPEATED CHALLENGES FROM CHINA’S COASTGUARD INSIDE THEIR EEZS.
PRESIDENTIAL SPOKESPERSON SALVADOR MADE THIS CLARIFICATION AFTER FORMER FOREIGN AFFAIRS SECRETARY ALBERT DEL ROSARIO SAID THERE WAS NO NEED FOR GOVERNMENT TO “IGNORE” THE ARBITRAL RULING TO GIVE WAY TO ECONOMIC ACTIVITY WITH CHINA.
DUTERTE MADE THE STATEMENT AS HE REVEALED THERE ARE PEOPLE PREVENTING HIM FROM TALKING ABOUT THE RULING OF THE 2016 UN ARBITRAL RULING TO XI, WHOSE ADMINISTRATION INVALIDATED CHINA’S EXPANSIVE CLAIMS IN THE SOUTH CHINA SEA.
VICE PRESIDENT LENI ROBREDO ON THURSDAY SLAMMED PRESIDENT DUTERTE’S RECENT DECLARATION THAT HE IS WILLING TO SET ASIDE THE ARBITRAL RULING UPHOLDING THE COUNTRY’S EXCLUSIVE ECONOMIC ZONE (EEZ) IN THE WEST PHILIPPINE SEA TO ALLOW PHILIPPINES’ JOINT OIL AND GAS EXPLORATION WITH CHINA TO PROCEED.
LOCSIN SAID THE ARBITRAL RULING, WHICH VOIDED CHINA’S NINE-DASH LINE BASIS FOR CLAIMING OWNERSHIP OF MOST OF THE SOUTH CHINA SEA, HAS TIED THE HANDS OF ANY PRESIDENT FROM GIVING AWAY THE COUNTRY’S TERRITORY.
DUTERTE HAS LONG BEEN CRITICIZED BY NATIONALISTS AND LEFT-WING GROUPS FOR NOT IMMEDIATELY DEMANDING CHINESE COMPLIANCE WITH THE RULING BY AN ARBITRATION TRIBUNAL IN THE HAGUE THAT DECLARED CHINA’S CLAIMS TO VIRTUALLY THE ENTIRE SOUTH CHINA SEA INVALID UNDER THE 1982 U.N. CONVENTION ON THE LAW OF THE SEA.

 

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