Former Foreign Affairs Secretary and now Senator Alan Peter Cayetano on Friday said that not bringing up China’s aggression in the West Philippine Sea (WPS) at the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) was a sign of maturity and not weakness.
Former Foreign Affairs Secretary and now Senator Alan Peter Cayetano on Friday said that not bringing up China’s aggression in the West Philippine Sea at the United Nations General Assembly was a sign of maturity and not weakness.
“As elected leaders of the nation, it is our duty to get things done the right way. For this, we need wisdom and circumspection. In formulating a national strategy, we have to look honestly into the past and make every effort to learn from history,” he added.in the plenary, which Cayetano blocked, arguing that apart from China, other states claimed ownership over several parts of the WPS.
Heeding his appeal, Senate President Juan Miguel Zubiri said there would be an all-member caucus about the resolution to discuss the matter with Foreign Affairs Secretary Enrique Manalo, Presidential Adviser to the WPS retired General Andres Centino, the National Intelligence Coordinating Agency, and the National Task Force for the West Philippine Sea.
“The UNGA is not a venue of enforcement. The Philippine government’s problem has never been who is ‘right,’ rather it is who has the ‘might’ to enforce ‘the right,’” he said.
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