00:00In front of the foreign ministers in Germany,
00:03Foreign Affairs Secretary Enrique Manalo denied
00:07the allegation of China that promised the Philippines
00:10to remove the BRP Sierra Madre from the Union Shoal.
00:15J.P. Soriano was the one who pointed it out.
00:21In a panel discussion at the Munich Security Conference in Germany,
00:25the allegation of China that promised the Philippines
00:30to remove the BRP Sierra Madre from the Union Shoal was pointed out.
00:35Foreign Affairs Secretary Enrique Manalo denied it.
00:39There was never any promise to take off the ship, take out the ship.
00:43But what we should really take account of is,
00:46why is there such a huge presence of Chinese Coast Guard vessels
00:51around the Union Shoal?
00:52Manalo also confirmed the question of the moderator, D.O. Mano.
00:56Some countries are saying that the Philippines is pushing
01:00the issue of the West Philippine Sea to China too much.
01:04I've never heard that discussed.
01:05That's something that's being, I think, floated around.
01:08Many countries in the region have come out in support of the Philippines.
01:12And I haven't heard any country really come out against
01:15what we've been doing, except for one.
01:17China has yet to address the allegations of Manalo in Munich,
01:20but it has previously denied that they are the part of the West Philippine Sea
01:25that is part of their Nine-Dash Line,
01:27a line that was destroyed by the International Arbitral Tribunal in 2016.
01:33For GMA Integrated News,
01:35I'm JP Soriano,
01:36for 24 Hours.
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