Termination of Australia-RP VFA sought
By Gerry Baldo 11/12/2010Amid the presidential move to review the RP-US Visiting Forces Agreement (VFA), a lawmaker yesterday said that a similar agreement with the Australian government should be terminated on the grounds that it violates Philippine sovereignty and the Philippine Constitution.
Bayan Muna Rep. Neri Colmenares said that the agreements called the Status of Visiting Forces Agreement was secretly sealed by the Philippine government through then Defense Secretary Hermogenes Ebdane in Australia on May 31, 2007 in Canberra, Australia.
“The Philippine government should also terminate the Visiting Forces Agreement between the Philippines and Australia for violation of our sovereignty and the Philippine Constitution,” Colmenares said yesterday.
“While the review of the US-RP VFA has been in the media, the Australia-RP VFA has escaped attention even if it contains similarly dangerous provisions,” Colmenares added..... MORE
Source: The Daily Tribune
URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/nation/20101112nat2.html
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