President Marcos convened yesterday his security and defense officials for a command conference at Malacañang where they discussed the disruption by the Chinese of a resupply mission to the BRP Sierra Madre, wherein one of its ships slightly hit a Philippine Coast Guard vessel during a “dangerous and provocative” maneuver.
At the command conference, Marcos was reported to have expressed very serious concern about the incident last Sunday, as he ordered a swift probe while the Department of Foreign Affairs lodged a diplomatic protest and summoned Beijing’s ambassador.
“But we are here to really decry in the strongest possible terms this egregious violation and illegal act within the 200-nautical mile exclusive economic zone and the obfuscation of the truth by China’s distorting the story to fit its own ends and the duplicity in claiming to be peaceful and friendly while resorting to these aggressive acts,” he said.
DFA spokesperson Teresita Daza said the country has filed a fresh diplomatic protest against China over the latest incident in Ayungin Shoal. Ayungin Shoal is located about 105 nautical miles from Palawan. China is also claiming the shoal, which it calls Ren’ai Jiao. In the same resupply mission, Chinese Maritime Militia vessel 00003 jolted the port side of the PCG vessel MRRV 4409 while it was hovering 6.4 nautical miles northeast of Ayungin Shoal.Malaya said the task force finds the development alarming enough for the DFA to summon the Chinese ambassador, stressing that the Philippines intends to send a “clear and unequivocal message” that what China did was unacceptable.
“What the Chinese vessels did was illegal and irresponsible. Illegal in the sense that their presence in our EEZ is not authorized based on UNCLOS and the arbitral award,” AFP spokesman Col. Medel Aguilar said.
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