Senate President Juan Miguel Zubiri has thrown his support behind a proposal for the Philippines to elevate to the UNGA China’s repeated violations of the landmark 2016 arbitral ruling that invalidated its territorial claim over the West Philippine Sea.
Zubiri pointed out that Beijing had been conducting similar activities in international waters “that hamper the freedom of navigation.”He issued the remarks after Beijing again disregarded Manila’s historic legal victory as the country marked the seventh year of the Permanent Court of Arbitration’s ruling on July 12, 2016, invalidating China’s nine-dash-line claim and affirming the Philippines’ sovereign rights within its EEZ.
Zubiri said it was high time for UN members to be made officially aware of China’s daily “illegal incursions” in Philippine territory. “For the life of me, I do not understand how they could say that those areas are theirs and not ours when our country is very near while their country is very far away from those waters,” Zubiri said.He noted further that 16 member states of the European Union recently spoke out in support of the Philippines’ legal victory over China.
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