By TESSA JAMANDREINTERNATIONAL law and constitutional law experts are set to ask the Supreme Court on Wednesday to nullify the three-week-old Archipelagic Baselines Law, barely a month before the May 13 deadline for the Philippine government to submit to the United Nations its claim over its extended continental shelf under the UN Convention on the
MALACANANG got its way in drawing the country’s archepelagic baseline after all. Both the Senate and the House of Representatives agreed in Monday’s bicameral conference to adopt the Palace position to treat the disputed Kalayaan Island Group (KIG) and the Scarborough Shoal as “regimes of islands of the Republic of the Philippines” instead of enclosing
FORMER Cabinet members are asking Congress to pass immediately a law that would define the country’s baseline in keeping with the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea or UNCLOS. The Former Senior Government Officials (FSGO), in a statement issued on July 11, cited the need to enact a baseline law in
TWO more bills recommending that the Kalayaan Island Groups (KIG) in the disputed Spratlys group be declared a “regime of islands” have been filed in Congress. The proposals, introduced in the Senate by Sen. Rodolfo Biazon and in the House of Representatives by Ilocos Norte Rep. Ferdinand Marcos Jr., bring to five the number of baseline