It stays!!! Visiting Forces of Agreement (VFA) extended for another 6 months

 

The Visiting Forces Agreement (VFA) between the United States and the Philippines stays unless it is abrogated by the President.

President Rodrigo Roa Duterte has decided to extend for another six months the Visiting Forces Agreement (VFA), according to Department of Foreign Affairs Secretary Teodoro Locsin, Jr.

It might be remembered that the VFA was first suspended in June.

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“The past four years have changed the South China Sea from one of uncertainty about great powers’ intentions to one of predictability and resulting stability with regard to what can and cannot be done, what will and will not be acceptable with regard to the conduct of any protagonist in the South China Sea,” Secretary Locsin said in a letter to White House National Security Adviser Robert O’Brien.

The letter was posted on Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA)’s website.

“Clarity and strength have never posed a risk.  It is confusion and indecision that aggravate risk,” Locsin added. “A great deal of credit for the renewal of stability and security goes to deft diplomacy, unequivocal expressions of policy, sturdy postures of strength combined with unfailing tact, and pragmatic national security advice exhibited by both our governments in the same period. “

“In appreciative recognition thereof, my President, Rodrigo Roa Duterte,  has instructed me to convey with the appropriate formality  his decision to extend the suspension of the abrogation of the Visiting Forces Agreement  by yet another 6 months, to enable us to find a more enhanced, mutually beneficial,  mutually agreeable, and more effective and lasting arrangement  on how to move forward  in our  mutual defense,” the foreign affairs secretary said.

 

 

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