Defense Secretary Lauds Cebu City’s West Philippine Sea Victory Day Resolution

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๐ƒ๐ž๐Ÿ๐ž๐ง๐ฌ๐ž ๐’๐ž๐œ๐ซ๐ž๐ญ๐š๐ซ๐ฒ ๐†๐ข๐ฅ๐›๐ž๐ซ๐ญ๐จ “๐†๐ข๐›๐จ” ๐“๐ž๐จ๐๐จ๐ซ๐จ ๐‰๐ซ. warmly welcomed the ๐๐ž๐œ๐ฅ๐š๐ซ๐š๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐‚๐ž๐›๐ฎ ๐‚๐ข๐ญ๐ฒ ๐‚๐จ๐ฎ๐ง๐œ๐ข๐ฅ to unanimously approve a resolution declaring ๐‰๐ฎ๐ฅ๐ฒ 12 ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐ž๐ฏ๐ž๐ซ๐ฒ ๐ฒ๐ž๐š๐ซ ๐š๐ฌ โ€œ๐–๐ž๐ฌ๐ญ ๐๐ก๐ข๐ฅ๐ข๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ข๐ง๐ž ๐’๐ž๐š ๐•๐ข๐œ๐ญ๐จ๐ซ๐ฒ ๐ƒ๐š๐ฒ.โ€

โ€œWe laud the Cebu City Councilโ€™s unanimous approval of a resolution declaring July 12 of every year as โ€˜West Philippine Sea Victory Day.โ€™ The 2016 Arbitral Award was indeed a victory which our country should embrace and fight to enforce,โ€ Sec. Teodoro said.

The resolution, authored by ๐’๐จ๐ฎ๐ญ๐ก ๐ƒ๐ข๐ฌ๐ญ๐ซ๐ข๐œ๐ญ ๐‚๐จ๐ฎ๐ง๐œ๐ข๐ฅ๐จ๐ซ ๐๐š๐ฎ๐ฅ ๐‹๐š๐›๐ซ๐š, underscores ๐‚๐ž๐›๐ฎ ๐‚๐ข๐ญ๐ฒโ€™๐ฌ ๐œ๐จ๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ข๐ญ๐ฆ๐ž๐ง๐ญ ๐ญ๐จ ๐๐ž๐Ÿ๐ž๐ง๐๐ข๐ง๐  ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐œ๐จ๐ฎ๐ง๐ญ๐ซ๐ฒโ€™๐ฌ ๐ซ๐ข๐ ๐ก๐ญ๐ฌ ๐ข๐ง ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐–๐ž๐ฌ๐ญ ๐๐ก๐ข๐ฅ๐ข๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ข๐ง๐ž ๐’๐ž๐š (๐–๐๐’).

The announcement coincides with the 10๐ญ๐ก ๐š๐ง๐ง๐ข๐ฏ๐ž๐ซ๐ฌ๐š๐ซ๐ฒ ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐ฅ๐š๐ง๐๐ฆ๐š๐ซ๐ค ๐ฅ๐ž๐ ๐š๐ฅ ๐ฏ๐ข๐œ๐ญ๐จ๐ซ๐ฒ ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐๐ก๐ข๐ฅ๐ข๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ข๐ง๐ž๐ฌ through the issuance of the ๐š๐ซ๐›๐ข๐ญ๐ซ๐š๐ฅ ๐š๐ฐ๐š๐ซ๐ ๐จ๐ง ๐‰๐ฎ๐ฅ๐ฒ 12, 2016, which ๐ข๐ง๐ฏ๐š๐ฅ๐ข๐๐š๐ญ๐ž๐ ๐‚๐ก๐ข๐ง๐š’๐ฌ ‘๐ง๐ข๐ง๐ž-๐๐š๐ฌ๐ก ๐ฅ๐ข๐ง๐ž’ ๐š๐ฌ๐ฌ๐ž๐ซ๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง and recognized the Philippines’ sovereign rights within its exclusive economic zone under the ๐”๐ง๐ข๐ญ๐ž๐ ๐๐š๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง๐ฌ ๐‚๐จ๐ง๐ฏ๐ž๐ง๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง ๐จ๐ง ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐‹๐š๐ฐ ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐’๐ž๐š (๐”๐๐‚๐‹๐Ž๐’).

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