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Solon bats for bigger PH defense spending at par with ASEAN standards

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Congress has been urged to allot a budget equivalent to two percent of the country's Gross Domestic Product (GDP) to effectively increase the country's defense spending at make it at par with the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) regional standards.

Congress has been urged to allot a budget equivalent to two percent of the country’s Gross Domestic Product to effectively increase the country’s defense spending at make it at par with the Association of Southeast Asian Nations regional standards.Magdalo Para sa Pilipino partylist Rep. Manuel Cabochan III batted for a bigger defense spending as an expression of support to the Armed Forces of the Philippines as the protector of the people and the State.

The neophyte lawmaker filed House Joint Resolution No. 23 urging the Senate and House of Representatives to make the Philippines’ defense spending at par with the ASEAN regional standards. In 2012, former President Benigno S. Aquino III signed into law RA 10349, the Revised AFP Modernization Act, which extended the military modernization program anew for 15 years to boost the AFP’s capacity as it shifts from internal security operations to external defense, Cabochan noted.

 

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