The Enhanced Defense Cooperation Agreement must be reviewed to ensure transparency in United States’ use of Philippine military bases, Senate Minority Leader Aquilino “Koko” Pimentel III said Monday.
Pimentel, former chairperson of the Senate committee on foreign relations, said the sites being used by the US military should not be treated as “restricted areas” which the Filipino military officers cannot inspect. “So i-improve natin in that way and then, of course, we can also improve it by emphasizing that aside from defense, the disaster preparedness,” he said.
The lawmaker pointed out that the US is still considered as the biggest economy in the world and the Philippines can supply products and materials that it needs. “I think this Code of Conduct which has been mentioned for decades already must be seriously and in good faith pursued by all the claimants…All of the countries using the West Philippine Sea and the South China Sea,” Pimentel said.
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