MANILA, Philippines - The United States is resolved to safeguard the Philippines against outside assault, US Ambassador Philip Goldberg emphasized yesterday. In a meeting on ANC, Goldberg was pressed for an unmitigated articulation that his administration might safeguard the Philippines in the event of an assault in the South China Sea. Goldberg said US President Barack Obama has pronounced their legislature's "ironclad duty" to shield the Philippines under the two nations' Mutual Defense Treaty (MDT).
"I don't realize what more we can say," Goldberg told ANC host Karen Davila.
He urged Filipinos to propel respective relations as he guaranteed the nation that the recently consented to Enhanced Defense Cooperation Arrangement might regard the Philippine Constitution and laws. Goldberg said he was mindful that the past formed occasions in the present, yet he said individuals can't live previously.
'South China Sea some piece of Pacific'
Remote Affairs Secretary Albert del Rosario, in the mean time, said yesterday that the South China Sea is some piece of the Pacific range where the United States is prepared to wander into to help safeguard the Philippines from outer strike. "In 1999, in a discretionary letter, the United States confirmed that the South China Sea is acknowledged as a component of the Pacific range," Del Rosario said in an explanation. The DFA boss underlined that "under the Mutual Defense Treaty, the United States will provide some much needed help the Philippines if our metropolitan region is struck or if our Armed Forces are assaulted in the Pacific range."
Obama on Tuesday reaffirmed his nation's dedication to help guard the Philippines against remote animosity under the 1951 MDT. He said the bargain spoke to the two nations' "normal determination" to help one another militarily "so that no potential attacker could be under the fantasy that either of them remains solitary." Obama gave the affirmation in a discourse conveyed before in the range of 500 Filipino and US servicemen at Fort Bonifacio in Taguig City quickly before he came back to the US. His comments on the first day of his state visit were seen to be watched and implied not to offend China, which is forcefully staking its claim over practically the whole South China Sea.
On March 30, the Philippines submitted to the arbitral tribunal in The Hague a dedication or composed contention of its position on the West Philippine Sea. The US has pronounced its backing for the Philippine activity, however Beijing said it is just ready to arrange with the Philippines reciprocally.
"I don't realize what more we can say," Goldberg told ANC host Karen Davila.
He urged Filipinos to propel respective relations as he guaranteed the nation that the recently consented to Enhanced Defense Cooperation Arrangement might regard the Philippine Constitution and laws. Goldberg said he was mindful that the past formed occasions in the present, yet he said individuals can't live previously.
'South China Sea some piece of Pacific'
Remote Affairs Secretary Albert del Rosario, in the mean time, said yesterday that the South China Sea is some piece of the Pacific range where the United States is prepared to wander into to help safeguard the Philippines from outer strike. "In 1999, in a discretionary letter, the United States confirmed that the South China Sea is acknowledged as a component of the Pacific range," Del Rosario said in an explanation. The DFA boss underlined that "under the Mutual Defense Treaty, the United States will provide some much needed help the Philippines if our metropolitan region is struck or if our Armed Forces are assaulted in the Pacific range."
Obama on Tuesday reaffirmed his nation's dedication to help guard the Philippines against remote animosity under the 1951 MDT. He said the bargain spoke to the two nations' "normal determination" to help one another militarily "so that no potential attacker could be under the fantasy that either of them remains solitary." Obama gave the affirmation in a discourse conveyed before in the range of 500 Filipino and US servicemen at Fort Bonifacio in Taguig City quickly before he came back to the US. His comments on the first day of his state visit were seen to be watched and implied not to offend China, which is forcefully staking its claim over practically the whole South China Sea.
On March 30, the Philippines submitted to the arbitral tribunal in The Hague a dedication or composed contention of its position on the West Philippine Sea. The US has pronounced its backing for the Philippine activity, however Beijing said it is just ready to arrange with the Philippines reciprocally.
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