Noynoy opposes Vietnam’s bilateral deal with China on Spratlys issue
By Virgilio J. Bugaoisan 10/13/2011President Aquino opposed with the decision of the Vietnamese government to enter into a bilateral agreement with the Republic of China in relation to their territorial disputes over the South China Sea and insisted that the best solution to end the conflict arising from the territorial claims of various countries should be resolved multilaterally.
Aquino said that the Philippine proposal for the adoption of the Zone of Peace, Freedom, Friendship and Cooperation (ZoPFFC) to resolve the Spratly Islands dispute has been an effective way of maintaining peace in the controversial regime of islands. He maintained that discussions over the Spratlys should be done multilaterally and not bilaterally as done by Vietnam.
“At the minimum, it should be also with the other countries in dispute. Our position is (that) a multilateral solution is best in that a dispute not settled wholly will not be a settlement,” Aquino told members of the Foreign Correspondents Association of the Philippines (Focap)..... MORE
Source: The Daily Tribune
URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/nation/20111013nat1.html
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ayaw isama ng vietnam at tsina ang pinas kasi raw tuta lang tayo ng kalbong agila.
"“At the minimum, it should be also with the other countries in dispute. Our position is (that) a multilateral solution is best in that a dispute not settled wholly will not be a settlement,” Aquino told members of the Foreign Correspondents Association of the Philippines (Focap)."
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