This was highlighted by Foreign Affairs Secretary Teodoro Locsin Jr. during the European Union Ministerial Forum for Cooperation in the Indo-Pacific as he affirmed the Philippines’ commitment to deepen its engagement with the EU on security and defense.
“We therefore welcomed the EU’s principled statement on the 5th Anniversary of the Award, that ‘what happens in the South China Sea matters to the EU, ASEAN and the whole world.’ Finally, we are not alone in what we alone fought for and won,” Locsin added. He said that the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea is the anchor of that rules-based regional security architecture.
“But we want to see the COC as what it has to be: an agreement to act in a certain manner that does not give prominence or special status to any of its parties nor carves out a special regime apart from UNCLOS; and respects the rights of all powers in the world, including freedom of navigation. Otherwise we will reject it as a self-serving Code of Exclusion,” Locsin said.
Source: Law Daily Report (lawdailyreport.net)
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