Locsin says PH won't take up China Coast Guard law at UN

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Locsin dismissed the idea, citing the risk of reopening the Philippines' 2016 landmark victory against China at the Permanent Court of Arbitration.

Foreign Secretary Teodoro Locsin Jr on Monday, February 8, rejected retired Supreme Court senior associate justice Antonio Carpio's proposal for the Philippines to raise China's new Coast Guard law with other Southeast Asian states at the United Nations .

On Monday, Locsin once again cited China's influence at the UN as he shut down the idea of having the body tackle China's controversial law. "You cannot go to war and acquire maritime areas by force, and China has flipped this over," Carpio said in a recent RapplerStill, Locsin said on Monday that he would not allow for the possibility of relitigating the Philippines' victory.

 

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