Biazon seeks approval of sea lanes bill to address WPS issues

Biazon, vice chairman of the House Committee on National Defense, said that recent events that happened in the WPS area are vastly different than what the country experienced since the first time the bill was filed.

Hofer, chairperson of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, is reportedly planning to prioritize the measure which could help address many controversies that have emanated from the Philippines-China dispute over the WPS. “The law can require foreign ships exercising the right to archipelagic sea lane passage to turn on their Automatic Identification System and for submarines to surface and show their flag,” stated Carpio in reaction to the government’s decision to lodge a diplomatic protest over the passage of Chinese warships through the Sibutu Straits situated in the southern tip of the Philippines.

“Archipelagic sea lane passage refers to the exercise by foreign vessels or aircraft, in accordance with the provisions of UNCLOS, of the rights of navigation and overflight in the normal mode solely for the purpose of continuous, expeditious, and unobstructed transit between one part of the high sea or an exclusive economic zone to another part of the high sea or an EEZ through or over the Philippine archipelagic waters and its adjacent territorial sea,” explained Hofer in filing HB 4194.

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