00:00 The former President and now Deputy House Speaker Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo
00:04 did not promise to China or any country to remove the BRP Sierra Madre from the island.
00:10 Arroyo made a statement after China said that the Philippines had a leader
00:15 who promised to remove the BRP Sierra Madre that had crossed the island in 1999.
00:21 Arroyo also did not give any authorization to any official of the government to promise that to China.
00:28 The former Presidential Spokesperson Arroyo, Rigoberto Tiglau,
00:33 who was the administration of former President Joseph Estrada,
00:36 first announced that he had an agreement with China.
00:38 Estrada's camp denied that he had no such promise to China.
00:44 The Department of Foreign Affairs said that there is no record of an agreement with China.
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