MANILA, Philippines -- The Senate committee on foreign
relations will conduct its own inquiries on the issue concerning the
West Philippine Sea particularly the Bajo de Masinloc (Scarborough
Shoal) and Kalayaan Group of Islands Friday.
“The hearing will focus on the legal and political
repercussions arising from the standstill between the Republic of the
Philippines and the People’s Republic of China brought about by their
opposing claims over said areas,” Senator Loren Legarda, head of the
Senate committee, said in a media advisory Thursday.
Maritime zones bills and proposed measures on archipelagic sea lanes will also be discussed in the hearing she added.
Invited to attend the hearing were Foreign Affairs
Undersecretary Laura Del Rosario, Assistant Secretary for legal affairs
Irene Susan Natividad, Asst. Secretary for Ocean Concerns Gilberto
Asuque, Special Concerns executive director Antonio Morales, Secretary
General of the Commission on Maritime and Ocean Affairs Secretariat
Atty. Henry Bensurto Jr., State Counsel Fretti Ganchoon;
Defense Secretary Voltaire Gazmin, AFP chief of Staff
Lt/Gen. Jessie D. Dellosa, Philippine Navy Vice Admiral Alexander P.
Pama, Philippine Coast Guard chief Vice Admiral Edmund Castor,
Philippine Institute for Peace, Violence and Terrorism Research head,
Prof. Rommel Banlaoi, Atty Jay Batongbacal, Prof. Merlin Magalonna, and
Atty. Harry Roque of UP College of Law; and Prof. Clarita Carlos of UP
Dept. of Political Science.
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