No definite plan to rehabilitate RP facilities in Spratly — DND
09/22/2010
The Department of National Defense (DND) yesterday maintained that it has no definite plan to rehabilitate government facilities at the Philippine-held territories on the disputed Spratly group of islands on South China Sea.
At a press briefing in Camp Aguinaldo DND spokesman Eduardo Batac said the planned visit of defense officials at the Philippine-held Kalayaan Island Group (KIG) is part of the tradition of new leaderships both of the DND and the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP).
“We are not even discussing this… KIG is part of traditional visits of the new leadership whether in AFP or the department to visit outlying outpost. In fact, the trip might be just a side trip to the visit to Wescom (Western Command). Remember the SND (secretary of National Defense) and the chief of staff are doing the rounds to visit these major commands,” said Batac.
Batac stressed there is no solid plan to rehabilitate government facilities at the disputed islands.
“As far as I know, there is none (on the department level) maybe at the level of the AFP,” said Batac.
The DND spokesman, however, said that if there would be rehabilitation, it would only be on a need basis..... MORESource: The Daily Tribune
URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/nation/20100922nat4.html
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