President Ferdinand 'Bongbong' Marcos Jr. said Thursday (Washington time) that the Philippines would continue to talk to China about the Malampaya natural gas fields.
WASHINGTON — President Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr. said Thursday that the Philippines would continue to talk to China about the Malampaya natural gas fields.
"It is not an easy process but the Malampaya fields, natural gas fields that lie in our, within our baselines and within our exclusive economic zone and that again is being questioned in certain cases, in certain areas by China and we continue to negotiate with them,” he added. Marcos said China has been claiming particular areas where the Malampaya fields are located but are already recognized by the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea as part of the Philippines' exclusive economic zone.
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