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Philippines-U.S. Cooperation in the West Philippine Sea

      A file photo taken at sea in the Philippines depicts a water cannon fired by a Chinese Coast Guard ship (top) and a Philippine supply boat as the latter tries to approach the Second Thomas Shoal, a remote West Philippine Sea shoal that is claimed by both nations. - AFP


The US remains with our Philippine partners notwithstanding dangerous activities by the Coast Guard and the oceanic state army of Individuals of the Republic of China (PRC) to deter an August 5 Philippine resupply mission to Second Thomas Reef in the West Philippine Sea. Terminating water guns and utilizing dangerous obstructing moves, PRC ships impeded the Philippines' legitimate activity of high oceans freedom of route and risked the security of the Philippine vessels and group.



Such activities by the PRC are conflicting with global regulation and are the furthest down the line in rehashed dangers to the norm in the West Philippine Sea, straightforwardly compromising territorial harmony and solidness. By hindering important arrangements from arriving at the Filipino servicemembers positioned at Second Thomas Reef, the PRC has likewise embraced unjustifiable impedance in legal Philippine sea tasks.


As clarified by a global council's legitimately restricting choice given in July 2016, the PRC has no legitimate case to the oceanic region around Second Thomas Reef, which is found well inside the Philippines’ exclusive economic zone


    The US repeats, as per the 1982 Law of the Sea Convention, the arbitral choice is conclusive and      legitimately binding on the PRC and the Philippines. The US calls upon the PRC to comply with the arbitral decision as well as to regard the freedom of navigation to which all states are entitled.


The US reaffirms an assault on Philippine public vessels, airplanes, and military — including those of its Coast Guard in the West Philippine Sea — would summon U.S. mutual defense responsibilities under Article IV of the 1951 U.S. Philippines Mutual Defense Treaty.


Source: US Dept. of  State


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