Retired
Supreme Court (SC) Senior Associate Justice Antonio Carpio has no kind words
for the President of the Republic when he uttered the words “Inutil ako” as
regards the issue in the West Philippine Sea as against China.
“A country does not
need to go to war to assert its sovereign rights,” he said in a statement.
“There are lawful
and peaceful means of asserting sovereign rights,” he added.
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| Retired Supreme Court (SC) Senior Associate Justice Antonio Carpio (photo credit to owner) |
Carpio
reaction was provoked by the pronouncement of President Rodrigo Roa Duterte
that he is not prepared to go to war to China in asserting the Philippines’
rights in the West Philippine Sea (WPS).
The
retired magistrate reminded the President “Vietnam, Malaysia and Indonesia are
asserting their sovereign rights to their maritime zones against China’s
claims.”
“These countries do
not go to war against China, and neither does China go to war against these countries,”
he said.
Carpio also cited
that “the UN Charter outlaws resort to war to settle territorial or maritime
disputes.”
“Moreover, the
Philippine Constitution renounces war as an instrument of national policy,
which means the Philippines cannot go to war to enforce the arbitral ruling,”
he added.
Carpio stressed
“China does not possess Philippine exclusive economic zone (EEZ) which is
beyond the 12-nautical mile territorial seas of disputed islands or high-tide
geologic features.”
“Naval powers like
the US, UK, France, Australia, Japan, and Canada regularly sail in our EEZ in
the West Philippine Sea, proving that China is not in possession of our EEZ in
the West Philippine Sea,” he said.
“The President
should not say that China is in possession of our EEZ in the West Philippine
Sea because factually China is not in possession,” the retired SC Justice corrected the President.
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