00:00President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. has made himself unmistakably clear since the get-go
00:05he will not cede an inch of Philippine territory to anyone.
00:09And despite all the harassing encounters against Philippine security forces patrolling and
00:13protecting the country's sovereignty, there will be no let-up in such efforts with the
00:18Philippine Coast Guard and the AFP vowing to fulfill their mandates and the orders of
00:22their commander-in-chief.
00:24Even more, Philippine security forces will time and again join forces with like-minded
00:29nations who share common values in maritime exercises for defensive and interoperability
00:35purposes in the WPS.
00:37Thus the Philippine Coast Guard has rotated vessels in its fleet for monitoring patrols
00:42in the country's EEZ and documents incidents of illegal encroaching in Philippine waters
00:47and its EEZ.
00:48We don't have the means to evacuate.
00:50We don't have the means to evacuate.
00:53It's not good if we have an aircraft carrier with a destroyer, frigate, and submarine.
01:00We will send them there so they can push them far away.
01:04We don't have that.
01:06If it's a large and numerous ship, we are far from China.
01:12But our policy is that we will just continue to defend our sovereign territory and our
01:21territorial rights in the EEZ.
01:23What is the mission of the Coast Guard?
01:25What is the mission of the Navy?
01:27To protect the territorial integrity of the Philippines.
01:30So that's what they will do.
01:31This is the reason why President Bongbong Marcos last year approved the acquisition of five
01:38from Japan and 40 more vessels that will be coming from France as well.
01:43I think the silver lining of the statement is, again, to inform the Filipino people that
01:50we are committed in carrying out our patriotic duty in the West Philippine Sea.
