National Government Stands by Legal and Diplomatic Action in Addressing the West Philippine Sea Issue

๐‘๐ž๐š๐ซ ๐€๐๐ฆ๐ข๐ซ๐š๐ฅ ๐‰๐š๐ฒ ๐“๐š๐ซ๐ซ๐ข๐ž๐ฅ๐š said on Monday that the ๐๐ก๐ข๐ฅ๐ข๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ข๐ง๐ž๐ฌ ๐œ๐จ๐ง๐ญ๐ข๐ง๐ฎ๐ž๐ฌ ๐ญ๐จ ๐ฉ๐ฎ๐ซ๐ฌ๐ฎ๐ž ๐ฅ๐ž๐ ๐š๐ฅ ๐š๐ง๐ ๐๐ข๐ฉ๐ฅ๐จ๐ฆ๐š๐ญ๐ข๐œ ๐ฆ๐ž๐š๐ง๐ฌ to address the issue in the ๐–๐ž๐ฌ๐ญ ๐๐ก๐ข๐ฅ๐ข๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ข๐ง๐ž ๐’๐ž๐š.

This follows ๐ ๐ซ๐จ๐ฐ๐ข๐ง๐  ๐œ๐š๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ฌ ๐ญ๐จ ๐ซ๐ž๐ฆ๐จ๐ฏ๐ž ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐‚๐ก๐ข๐ง๐ž๐ฌ๐ž ๐ฆ๐จ๐ฏ๐š๐›๐ฅ๐ž ๐Ÿ๐ฅ๐จ๐š๐ญ๐ข๐ง๐  ๐ฌ๐ญ๐ซ๐ฎ๐œ๐ญ๐ฎ๐ซ๐ž, ๐œ๐จ๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ฎ๐ง๐ข๐œ๐š๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง ๐ž๐ช๐ฎ๐ข๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ž๐ง๐ญ, ๐š๐ง๐ ๐›๐ฎ๐จ๐ฒ๐ฌ that were discovered in the lagoon of ๐๐š๐ฃ๐จ ๐๐ž ๐Œ๐š๐ฌ๐ข๐ง๐ฅ๐จ๐œ, also known as the Scarborough Shoal.

“As the NTF-WPS stated, anything that violates UNCLOS and undermines our sovereignty and sovereign rights is always a concern of the national government,โ€ Rear Admiral Tarriela said.

The ๐ƒ๐ž๐ฉ๐š๐ซ๐ญ๐ฆ๐ž๐ง๐ญ ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐…๐จ๐ซ๐ž๐ข๐ ๐ง ๐€๐Ÿ๐Ÿ๐š๐ข๐ซ๐ฌ (๐ƒ๐…๐€) has previously ๐Ÿ๐ข๐ฅ๐ž๐ ๐๐ข๐ฉ๐ฅ๐จ๐ฆ๐š๐ญ๐ข๐œ ๐ฉ๐ซ๐จ๐ญ๐ž๐ฌ๐ญ๐ฌ ๐จ๐ฏ๐ž๐ซ ๐‚๐ก๐ข๐ง๐šโ€™๐ฌ ๐š๐œ๐ญ๐ข๐ฏ๐ข๐ญ๐ข๐ž๐ฌ in Bajo de Masinloc and has called on Beijing to ๐ซ๐ž๐ฆ๐จ๐ฏ๐ž ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐ฌ๐ญ๐ซ๐ฎ๐œ๐ญ๐ฎ๐ซ๐ž๐ฌ placed in the area.

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