The Supreme Court declared the country’s 2005 Tripartite Agreement for Joint Marine Seismic Undertaking with China and Vietnam as unconstitutional. | T2TupasINQ
MANILA, Philippines – The Supreme Court on Tuesday declared the country’s 2005 Tripartite Agreement for Joint Marine Seismic Undertaking with China and Vietnam unconstitutional.
Under the undertaking, joint explorations will be conducted in the South China Sea, covering 142,886 square kilometers. The agreement covers six islands claimed and occupied by the Philippines in Spratly, such as Pag-Asa Island, Likas Island, Lawak Island, Kota Island, Patag Island, and Panata Island.But, up to 80 percent of the JMSU site is within the Philippines’ 200-mile exclusive economic zone, prompting the filing of petitions seeking to declare the agreement unconstitutional.
The SC, through Associate Justice Samuel Gaerlan, said that the term “exploration” pertained to a search or discovery of something in both its ordinary or technical sense and ruled that the JMSU involves the exploration of the country‟s natural resources, particularly petroleum. “That the Parties designated the joint research as a pre-exploration activity‟ is of no moment,” said the Court. “Such designation does not detract from the fact that the intent and aim of the agreement is to discover petroleum which is tantamount to exploration.”
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