Friday, July 30, 2021

President Duterte Restores Philippines’s Key Military Agreement With US

Duterte's office said the Philippine president and Austin 'had an open and frank discussion of the status and future direction' of the Philippines-US ties [Robinson Ninal/Malacanang Handout Photo via Reuters] 

 

The Hill: Duterte restores pact allowing US war exercises 

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte recommitted his country to a key military agreement with the U.S. during a visit by Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin after repeatedly threatening to terminate the pact. 

Austin, along with Philippine Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana, announced the restoration of the Visiting Forces Agreement (VFA) during a joint press briefing from Manila on Friday. 

Austin thanked Duterte for the renewal, adding, “A strong, resilient US-Philippines alliance will remain vital to the security, stability and prosperity of the Indo-Pacific," according to CNN. 

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More News On President Duterte Restoring Philippines’s Key Military Agreement With The US  

Philippine leader retains pact allowing US war exercises -- AP 

Philippines renews key military agreement with the United States -- CNN  

The Philippine President Says Long-Standing Security Pact With The U.S. Can Continue -- NPR  

Philippine President fully restores key U.S. troop pact -- NBC  

Duterte restores Philippines’s key military agreement with US -- Al Jazeera

2 comments:

RussInSoCal said...

First Vietnam. Now Philippines. Next stop should be RoK.

Anonymous said...

There seems to be movement with the vote audits... the Republicans seem very confident that they can now prove the election theft. On the corporate media and big tech side, who colluded in the takeover, we now see full on denial these audits exist, more people nabbed including from fox...

It's getting hot.
I don't see Republicans backing down ice watched this now for months and they went throug the audit and did the work and it seems what some here believed, that several interest groups, not just Democrats, colluded for the election coup seems to be true

That also means we will see some people hang this or next year, because this is as treasonous behaviour as it gets in a democracy. A true coup.

Not sure about the hangings, maybe your military puts them in front of a wall, but there will be capital punishment for sure if it's all true...