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‘No arbitration’ occurred, says Duterte despite PCA ruling favoring PH
MANILA - Despite the landmark ruling five years ago by an intergovernmental court favoring the Philippines’ maritime claims in the South China Sea, President...
“What will I do with a document that does not bind China because they were never a part of that arbitration?
- Ronron Calunsod
- ABS-CBN News
There was really no arbitration at all because it was only the Philippines side who was heard,” Duterte said in his last State of the Nation Address (SONA).
The Philippines elevated in 2013 its maritime disputes with China in the South China Sea to the intergovernmental Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA), as provided by the 1982 United Nations Convention…