00:00Six countries, including the Philippines, will conduct a military exercise in Northern Luzon.
00:05Their warships have already arrived in the country.
00:09But what is this for?
00:11Chino Gaston is on the scene.
00:15The warships from America, Australia, Japan, Canada, and the Philippines are already in Subic Bay
00:22to participate in the 2024 exercises.
00:26Observers from the UK have also sent in
00:29interoperability or the ability to sail at the same time
00:33to the military exercise that will end in a joint sail in Northern Luzon.
00:39This includes providing sufficient supply to the ships and people
00:44whenever there is a military operation or a time of emergency.
00:47Will training be used in resupply missions?
00:50In BRP Sierra Madre, in Ayungin Shoal, which was blocked by China several times.
00:55So we'll execute that as much as possible.
00:58So some of the assets that we had hoped to send here, we couldn't,
01:02but we can still have the training.
01:05China has long called for the Philippines to invite its allies to the exercises.
01:14In response to the Northern Luzon Command of the AFP,
01:16the country has not been allowed to conduct any joint exercises.
01:21The joint sail in Scarborough Shoal, which was approved by China, will also not be near.
01:26This is actually a six-nation exercise to develop skills,
01:32to develop different logistic systems so that we could help each other.
01:40Everybody's maritime interests are protected.
01:42We might not be going out of the territorial seas,
01:46but we will conduct it mostly in the northern part of Luzon.
01:51Deterrence or cessation of any kind of clashes or attacks
01:55is the main message of the simultaneous deployment of the country's allies
01:59under the 2024 Joint Military Exercises.
02:04For GMA Integrated News,
02:06Chino Gaston, Akatutok, 24 Hours.
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