Palace warned vs invoking MDT 06/12/2011

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Palace warned vs invoking MDT

06/12/2011
Malacañang was cautioned yesterday against invoking the US-Philippine Mutual Defense Treaty (MDT) in a heated territorial dispute with the Beijing government without carefully studying its provisions in light of a statement by a Palace aide who said Washington will help the country should the row over the Spratly Islands worsen.

The Philippines has been engaged in a word war with Chinese officials for the past months over several confrontations with Filipinos in the potentially oil-rich group of islands which is also being claimed in part by Brunei, Malaysia, Vietnam and Taiwan..... MORE

Source:  The Daily Tribune

URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/headlines/20110612hed1.html