Former Pres. Duterte denies his administration entered into gentleman's agreement with China

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00:00 The alleged gentleman's agreement a former spokesperson of previous administration

00:05 Claims to have transpired back then is being vehemently denied by the former president

00:11 But the Chinese foreign ministry insists otherwise

00:14 Hence a probe on the matter is in order to ascertain the truth as our Patrick de Jesus reports

00:21 Former president Rodrigo Duterte denied his

00:27 Administration entered into a gentleman's agreement with China on the issue of West Philippine Sea

00:33 But he admits to agreeing to keep the status quo to maintain peace

00:37 But China insists having such agreement under the Duterte administration

00:42 And now they claim the Philippines is the one violating it by sending construction

00:49 materials to be a pishera madre in a human soul

00:53 President Ferdinand R. Marcos jr. Has maintained not seeing a document pertaining to what he called a

00:59 Horrifying agreement and if there is such a thing in existence

01:04 It will not be recognized for an expert any agreement on our territory can be considered illegal

01:11 that agreement

01:13 Agreement

01:18 That is in violation of the Philippine Constitution and the value a violation of the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea and a

01:25 violation of the 2016 Arbitral Award

01:27 What is our claim there?

01:29 Our claim there is the fact that

01:31 Second Thamas Shoal is located within our 200 nautical mile EEZ

01:36 meaning we have the exclusive rights to exploit and explore for resources and also the exclusive right to

01:43 build artificial structures, so

01:48 Whom my decide man on Filipinas now we reinforce that vessel and maybe build a structure on top of it

01:55 That's within our rights under international law

01:57 Meanwhile or Daniel said the trilateral summit between the Philippines US and Japan and benefit us

02:04 Particularly in the tension in West Philippine Sea the three countries have also released joint statement

02:11 Which expressed serious concern on the continued harassment by China before this the three countries?

02:18 including Australia took part in the first

02:20 multilateral maritime cooperative activity in the West Philippine Sea

02:25 According to or Daniel similar activities should be held with other allied countries

02:31 Amidst what he called gray coercion by China. We maintain our presence and effective jurisdiction

02:37 some areas night or height name a monga ganong monga

02:41 activities on China in other words the time of a so-called by default dahil na

02:47 Cool and I don't know cool on sabar call and cool on sub fuel or not cool on the result. So I think more

02:52 Maritime cooperative activities like what happened recently should be done

02:56 With the United States and our other important partners like Japan and Australia the trilateral meeting also addressed

03:03 Investments and climate change which is proof of recognition by the countries on their strong relationship

03:10 Patrick the Azuz from the national TV for a new and better Philippines