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VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Sa pagtatanggol sa desisyon ni Duterte na ibasura ang VFA, dating Palace spox Harry Roque gumawa ng dalawang maling pahayag

By VERA Files | Feb 07, 2020 11:46 PM

Mali si dating Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque nang sinabi niyang walang pakinabang ang bansa sa Visiting Forces Agreement (VFA) sa United States, at ang mga sundalong Pilipino, “batay” sa Guinness World Records, ang nakikipaglaban sa “pinakamatagal na paghihimagsik” sa buong mundo.

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VERA FILES FACT CHECK: In defending Duterte’s decision to scrap the VFA, ex-Palace spox Harry Roque makes two false claims

By VERA Files | Feb 07, 2020 8:11 PM

Former Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque is wrong when he said the country does not benefit at all from its Visiting Forces Agreement (VFA) with the United States, and that Filipino soldiers, “based” on the Guinness World Records, are fighting the world’s “longest-running insurgency.”

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VERA FILES FACT SHEET: Visiting Forces Agreement, ipinapaliwanag

By VERA Files | Feb 06, 2020 3:09 PM

Sinabi ni Foreign Affairs Secretary Teodoro Locsin Jr. sa mga senador noong Peb. 6 na hindi pa naipapadala ng gobyerno ang notice of termination ng Visiting Forces Agreement (VFA) sa United States.

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VERA FILES FACT SHEET: The Visiting Forces Agreement, explained

By VERA Files | Feb 06, 2020 2:51 PM

Foreign Affairs Secretary Teodoro Locsin Jr. told senators on Feb. 6 that the government has yet to send its notice of termination of the Visiting Forces Agreement (VFA) to the United States.

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VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Pahayag ni Pimentel na maaaring kanselahin ni Duterte ang VFA nangangailangan ng konteksto

By VERA Files | Jan 29, 2020 4:22 PM

Ang sinabi ni Sen. Aquilino “Koko” Pimentel III na maaaring kanselahin ni Pangulong Rodrigo Duterte ang Visiting Forces Agreement (VFA) “mayroon man o walang” dahilan ay kailangang isaalang-alang ang kaso na nakabinbin sa Supreme Court (SC).

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VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Pimentel’s claim that Duterte may unilaterally cancel VFA needs context

By VERA Files | Jan 29, 2020 3:49 PM

Sen. Aquilino “Koko” Pimentel III’s claim that President Rodrigo Duterte may cancel the Visiting Forces Agreement (VFA) “with or without” reason needs to consider the case pending before the Supreme Court (SC).

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The bigger picture in Duterte’s VFA outburst

By Romel Regalado Bagares | Jan 24, 2020 4:01 PM

May President Duterte unilaterally abrogate the Visiting Forces Agreement without the consent of the Senate?
The question arose yesterday after Mr. Duterte angrily warned he will do precisely that if the Americans do not “correct” the cancellation of the US visa earlier issued to a close ally, Senator Ronald “Bato” de la Rosa.

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The perils of pivot

Jul 03, 2013 2:22 PM

By LAURO BAJA, JR. THE proposal for “increased” access to facilities in Subic and other places to US forces and those of other “allies” is a byproduct of US desire to upgrade their pivot in Asia and of the Philippines necessity to arrest the rampaging actions of China in the West Philippine Sea. The […]

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SC can compel DFA to renegotiate custody provisions in VFA, group insists

May 26, 2013 2:06 PM

By JONATHAN DE SANTOS A non-government organization (NGO) has asked the Supreme Court (SC) to reconsider its decision to keep its hands off the issue of the controversial Visiting Forces Agreement (VFA), and help make U.S. military personnel in the Philippines answerable for their misdeeds under Philippine laws. The NGO Center for International Law (Centerlaw) […]

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