IN THE NEWS: Bayan Muna Representative Carlos Zarate criticized the administration’s stand on foreign affairs, specifically United States forces in the country. Zarate, in a statement, said the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) admitted during budget deliberations that the US was operating at least three military facilities in the country even without a new bases treaty. “While many suspected the US military of maintaining military facilities in the Philippines, the admission of the DFA during plenary deliberations of its existence came as a complete surprise, especially the one in Camp Bautista in Sulu which they admit was constructed ‘in early 2002,’” he said as Aquino left for Indonesia. The lawmaker said the Aquino administration has become “complicit in [the] duplicity and lack of transparency” of the US in its negotiations for the use of Philippine facilities.
Posted on: Wed, 09 Oct 2013 02:30:31 +0000
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