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“It has far reaching implications… Based on the Supreme Court decision, other countries can now go [into] cooperative endeavors and exclude us, and the irony there is it is because of that decision,” said DFA Undersecretary Carlos Sorreta during the Senate committee on Government Corporations and Public Enterprises hearing.
The deal was signed 18 years ago involving an area in the South China Sea covering 142,886 square kilometers. But Sorreta said the SC’s interpretation of “national territory” under the Constitution will negatively impact the Philippines’ exploration activities.
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