Appeasing HK, China no interest to me — Noy
By Aytch S. de la Cruz 10/15/2010Appeasing Hong Kong or China would be a flimsy reason to again revise the recommended Palace actions in the hostage fiasco report, according to President Aquino yesterday even as the Hong Kong and Chinese government protested the watering down by Aquino’s legal advisers of the original recom-mendations contained in the Incident Investigation and Review Committee (IIRC) which it was able to draw up with the help of Chinese authorities.
Aquino said he is standing by the revised Palace version of the IIRC recommend-ations that freed a close buddy and two of his allies of any accountability in the Aug. 23 botched hostage rescue even if it entails risking the country’s diplomatic relations with China and its Special Administrative Region.
Aquino even mockingly said he has no interest in continuously ap-peasing his Chinese counterparts and the
least he can do is simply explain to them why he arrived on the decision to revise the proposed charges on the accountable officials.
He added that the explaining to the Chinese government will be left up to a high-level delegation he previously formed led by Vice President Jejomar Binay and Foreign Affairs Secretary Alberto Romulo..... MORE
Source: The Daily Tribune
URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/headlines/20101015hed2.html
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