Senate Minority Leader Aquilino Pimentel III said the Philippines and China are expected to be fully transparent in their discussions about the exploration of oil and gas in the West Philippine Sea. | DFernandezINQ
“It is key to gain the support and confidence of the Filipino people and erase any doubts that the government is compromising and giving up our rights over the West Philippine Sea,” Pimentel pointed out.
Last year, then president Rodrigo Duterte ordered the termination of negotiations for the planned joint oil and gas exploration by the Philippines and China.Former Philippine Foreign Affairs Secretary Teodoro Locsin noted that the talks spanned for three years yet they “had not achieved our objective of developing oil and gas resources so critical for the Philippines.”
The Philippines has exclusive sovereign rights over the West Philippine Sea in the South China Sea while Beijing’s nine-dash line claim in the entire South China Sea was declared invalid by the 2016 ruling of the Permanent Court of Arbitration.
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