Speaker: House to probe 'gentleman's agreement' with China

Speaker and Leyte Representative Martin Romualdez on Monday said the House of Representatives would investigate the alleged "gentleman's agreement" former President Rodrigo Duterte had with China, saying such a deal unlawfully prevented the Philippines from repairing and resupplying the BRP Sierra Madre at the Ayungin Shoal .“We support President Ferdinand Marcos Jr.

He also cited Article 56 of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea or UNCLOS, which provides that a coastal state, in this case the Philippines, had the right to build and maintain structures within its Exclusive Economic Zone ."Ayungin Shoal is part of the country’s as reaffirmed by the 2016 arbitral ruling on the South China Sea arbitration case.

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