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UN arbitration was “last resort” to resolve South China Sea conflict – PH foreign secretary

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Raissa Robles in Manila

Manila is determined to pursue arbitration through the United Nations in the dispute over maritime territory in the South China Sea because it is “the last resort”, the Philippine foreign minister said yesterday.

China formally rejected the UN arbitration on February 19. A Chinese diplomat had told the South China Morning Post that Manila was making a mistake by resorting to arbitration because “we are not afraid of UNCLOS (the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Seas). Manila underestimates our knowledge at its peril.”

Yesterday, Philippine Foreign Secretary Albert del Rosario said during a media briefing: “As far as we are concerned, the train has left the station. Either China is on board or they are not. But as I said [of] the compulsory arbitration, the word will come down whether China is there [or not].”

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Comments

  1. Off topic muna mga mam & sir, paalala lang this ongoing election,…..”NO TO POLITICAL DYNASTY, VOTE BUYERS, TRAPOS, HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATORS and CRIMINAL POLITICIANS !!!!!!!!!!!! Ang ating KINABUKASAN ay nakasalalay sa gagawin nating desisyon sa makasaysayang ngayon.

  2. @LI HE HE HE HE YOU THINK YOU ARE SOMETHING BUT YOU ARE JUST A FLY…

    F**K YOU LI, you are just a fly, you cant scare Pinoy with your twisted rubbish english he he he he

    LI, can you make a pingpong ball float in the air like the Great Sun and rotate 9 more pingpong balls around it just like the planets???? Well off course you cannot because you are just a f**king fly….

    Filipinos knows the Philippine terretories, the philippines has 7000 plus plus islands and that includes the islands that china flies has occupied.

    There are so many chinese that are good and with brain, they will not join flies like you ass hole!!!

  3. Tama ba ang pagkaiintindi ko sa balitang ito na may 4 coastguard ships at isang navy vessel na ngayon duon sa balintang channel?

    http://www.rappler.com/nation/28906-ph-evading-responsibility-shooting-taiwan

    Bakit pinababayaan ng palasyo na labas pasok ang mga ito sa loob ng ating bansa? Tapos sa iba pang mga balita tayo pa ang ginigipit at pinipilit na pumirma sa isang kasunduan na naglalaman nito:

    – fisheries talks between the Philippines and Taiwan as soon as possible.

    Paano na yung mga kababayan nating ivatan. Inalagaan nila yung karagatan natin sa norte tapos iba ang aani tulad ng mga taiwanese? hindi ako agree sa kasunduan na yan na pati ang patay ay ginagamit upang gipitin at pilitin tayong lumagda sa isang kasunduan.

    Kung tama ang pagkakaintindi ko dahil sa “One China Policy” hindi sakop ang taiwan sa EEZ kasi hindi naman nila maiproklama na sila ay isang independent na bansa. SO EEZ does not apply to them.

    • Parang yung ginawa dati ng kapatid nilang taga mainland. Pumasok sa teritoryo ng Japan tapos may lakas pa ng loob na mang bangga ng coastguard.

      http://www.youtube.com/v/lv031K_lV4I&hl=en_US&fs=1&

      Hirap kasi akala nila pagmamay-ari nila ang buong karagatan. Lat year 2012, pinaulanan ng bala ng russia yung mga barko ng instik tapos hinuli pa.

      By the way ang daming trolls sa ibat ibang news site sa comment section at umabot hanggang sa blog ni Raissa namely si Li. Ayos na sana so we can have a good discourse kaso walang alam yung self-proclaimed na instik kundi ang salitang war :)

      • these chinese claimers (excluding the good chinese) are greedy and brainless, mga panget pa at sarap sapakin. They are like insects such as flies, no boundaries, eat all they can. They will only succeed for their aspirations via war, by legal means, they are DEAD!!! ZERO!!! Brain of an insect do not understand boundaries but they are God’s creation as well he he he we need to understand….

        One Filipino trailer driver routing from Makkah to Al Khobar approximately 1500kms said he never got sleep during driving and no accident, his secret??? He park on a pile of rubbish and allow several flies inside truck enclosure, while driving, some flies fly on his nose, face and ears, he keep them away by movements of his arms and shouting etc he he he off course, he sleep after some bogtsi or meryenda he he he

        These flies will awaken the nationalism of our country for its long golden slumber somehow….

  4. Good News

    – UN peacekeepers kidnapped in Golan released
    Yarmouk Martyrs Brigade, a Syrian rebel group, set free four Philippine peacekeepers captured earlier this week. Source: Al Jazeera

    – Also read it from ‘Filipino peacekeepers released – report’
    BY KD SUAREZ (www rappler com/nation/28899-filipino-peacekeepers-released-report)

  5. Listen all your people! Ur government and ur people did a huge huge mistake , ok, seems like we have dispute for the South China Sea. But ! U guys killed a fishman from Taiwan. U guys made a huge trouble . All Chinese around the world are angry ,angry and angry! 1.4 billion Chinese are angry, and for ur government , u don’t know yet how serious this case. I appreciated that ur government made all Chinese work together to hit u back . We ll see what happened ,if china mainland and Taiwan government gonna do stag . U guys just take it ! All Chinese ready for the war ! We are serious , u guys don’t laughing , this time u made all Chinese around world together !

    • First of all, we have to establish whether or not the Taiwan fishing vessel indeed rammed the Philippine Coast Guard ship.

      And second, the incident happened in Philippine waters.

      • Listen , this time, we will do our best to make ur country pooooooooorrrrrrre, I tho u should know this word! This is the nickname for ur country ! We gonna throw all ur people out from china mainland , Hong Kong and Taiwan . I hope u guys can save some food , because we will see u later in the war . We r ready , u? HahahHHhA fucking monkey!

        • We are about to hold elections.

          So I don’t have time to answer you right now.

          I’m not done with you yet.

        • “All Chinese ready for the war ! We are serious…”

          Are you now the self proclaimed leader of mainland China and Taiwan?

          Ranting doesn’t make you respectable nor courageous. Go piss somewhere else.

          Stay out of Philippine waters.

          —

          I move to censor this pea brain, foul-mouth & low-life embecile.

        • ha ha haa,

          baka instik pa iyong tenant ni LL.

          sa atin binuntungan ang galit sa landlord.

          Lol

        • @LI HE HE HE YOU CAN FOOL SOME BUT YOU CANT FOOL ALL
          ASS HOLE

          F**K YOU LI, you are just a fly, you cant scare Pinoy with your twisted rubbish english he he he he

          LI, can you make a pingpong ball float in the air like the Great Sun and rotate 9 more pingpong balls around it just like the planets???? Well off course you cannot because you are just a f**king fly….

          Filipinos knows the Philippine terretories, the philippines has 7000 plus plus islands and that includes the islands that china flies has occupied.

          There are so many chinese that are good and with brain, they will not join flies like you ass hole!!!

        • Li, are you sure you’re Chinese? You sure don’t sound handsome enough to be Chinese

        • F**K YOU LI, you are just a fly, you cant scare Pinoy with your twisted rubbish english he he he he

          LI, can you make a pingpong ball float in the air like the Great Sun and rotate 9 more pingpong balls around it just like the planets???? Well off course you cannot because you are just a f**king fly….

          Filipinos knows the Philippine terretories, the philippines has 7000 plus plus islands and that includes the islands that china flies has occupied.

          There are so many chinese that are good and with brain, they will not join flies like you ass hole!!!

        • he he he he you think you can fool me??
          F**K YOU LI, you are just a fly, you cant scare Pinoy with your twisted rubbish english he he he he

          LI, can you make a pingpong ball float in the air like the Great Sun and rotate 9 more pingpong balls around it just like the planets???? Well off course you cannot because you are just a f**king fly….

          Filipinos knows the Philippine terretories, the philippines has 7000 plus plus islands and that includes the islands that china flies has occupied.

          There are so many chinese that are good and with brain, they will not join flies like you ass hole!!!

        • FUNNY…. I have about 10 Chinese friends and they are not angry at our country. In fact, they are mad at people like you who is raving mad… maaaaaadddd…. so that’s about 10 Chinese away from your 1.4 billion around the world.

          You believe all Cinese have the same mental capacity like you do? I have been to your country and I saw that the poor people in your country are poorer, in a worse situation than we Filipinos….. :)

      • Haha, interesting, found my IP address and try to kill Chinese ? No doubt , I m Chinese. U can kill Chinese in ur country , and do whatever u want to , please ! I m waiting for my government destroy ur banana country . By the way , give ur boss more blowjob , and see if he can give ur some weapons which built after ww2! Haha . Interesting , seems like no one been to china , and I thk u guys have no money to go , haha. Go to the YouTube , check your bastard president video and he said proud of Chinese blood ! Ur people so foolish!

        • @LI, can you make your balls float in the air? if you can do that, i will praise you he he he but you see, you are acting like a fly, the chinese wisdom are far far from your insect like thingking

        • The chinese from the mainland as well as taiwan are finally shedding their true colors – descendants of the barbarous mongol hordes who conquered the whole of china and most of eastern europe in the 12th century.

          You can squeese our banana export, OFWs, and send your missile-guided destroyers and frigates near our Northern tips but you’ll never cow us to humiliation. Through the years, we’ve already learned to prepare siopao and – if push comes to shove – we’ll have abundant supply of kinky-eyed meat.

          Remember Tirad Pass, Lapu-lapu, Diego Silang and many others.

    • @Li one angry bastard, my Chinese friends are not that mad – they even say give them what they deserve. Go fish somewhere not on somebody’s territory ..idiot!

    • Li hates Filipinos, speaks broken Englisches and is clearly demented. Sounds like Don Mariano all right

  6. What else does China want for this matter to move forward? Isn’t it obvious that after 45 bilateral negotiations with the Phils. that the problem is not getting resolved and that a (third) internationally recognized body needs to be called in to arbitrate? Seems to me China does not want the problem resolved at all. They just want to bully their way into owning the disputed area and the Phils. should just take that sitting down.

    • har, har, har, ahoy, there matey! clearly, computer al is not under liquour ban. he’s getting his supplies on line, har, har, har. skol!

    • …Jan Adobo’s ‘Plastik Intelligence’ …Pi…program…was asked “Y all the coalitions?” and it answered “Kuha-eniksyons?”…and hollered too HAW HAW ‘all d carabaos!

      • TECAJFY hasn’t peaked yet.

        As the election day comes to a draw tomorrow and the field data arrives for processing after closing, many are keen to hear or listen to TECAJFY.

        Who knows, the COMELEC might be interested for side entertainment if many of its predictions come to pass.

        Nag wang wang kaya? (for or against Team PInoy?)

    • @Alan,

      If TECAJFY emits a crying or wailing sound, it must be for ‘Team Patay’!

      —

      TECAJFY, if Nancy Binay had 20 years On the Job TRAINING (apprentice) with her father and at UNA, how long will it take for her to do a similar TRAINING at the Senate (that is if she wins a seat)?

      • TECAJFY must be pro Catholic, it kept on wailing because of more plus votes for ‘Team Patay’.

        Kuha niyo?

        • rumors of Honasan’s premature withdrawal trigger ejaculation from candidate #COUPAL

        • It would have been the wisest decision Gringo could have made, via email.

          But alas, he gave credit to a hacker to his email account. Turn Turtle – a publicity stunt to keep the voters musing what’s left of it. Zip it up!

          heh, he he

        • On another matter (totally different), why not grab the MVP feeler err plate?

          Don’t ask me what? End, Period.

  8. “because “we are not afraid of UNCLOS (the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Seas). Manila underestimates our knowledge at its peril.”

    China’s is saying “We are not afraid.” In short, it does not follow the rule of law. It speaks of force in it’s actions, bullying other countries. Afraid? Why, is the UNCLOS an agency of the UN created to instill fear rather than by rule of law? Are the Chinese leaders studying Hung Fei Chun, on the Rules of War?

    Bully & Arrogance! I just hope that ‘bird flu’ will shake-flu Chinese leaders away for good! Asian nations need to unite against this very bad attitude of China…’we are not afraid.’

  9. “As far as we are concerned, the train has left the station. Either China is on board or they are not. But as I said [of] the compulsory arbitration, the word will come down whether China is there [or not].” – Philippine Foreign Secretary Albert del Rosario

    China snubbed the chance and rubbed it’s nose of a monumental opportunity to assert its rights over Huangyan Island and to all of the South China Sea (or West Philippine Sea) before an international body of which it is a UN charter member and one of five permanent members of the Security Council.

    That alone is a clear advantage over the Philippines (1 of 193 UN member states). Yet, China refuses to participate in the arbitration.

    China repeatedly says a bilateral (one to one) approach. There were 45 bilateral consultations so far. Yet during these ‘consultations’, it continues to intrude (as an example) into the Scarborough Shoal (Bajo de Masinloc or Huangyan Island). Exemplified BAD FAITH even for that many bilateral consultation.

    “… we are not afraid of UNCLOS (the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Seas). Manila underestimates our knowledge at its peril.” – Chinese diplomat (unnamed).

    And what ‘knowledge’ would that be that is for Manila’s peril?

    —

    The arbitration (ITLOS) would be able to ascertain the maritime entitlements of China and the Philippines. UNCLOS thru its panel can independently study, analyze and decide each country’s area of responsibility based on international laws. It can formally determine and officially decide on each country’s area of territory (ex. Exclusive Economic Zone, sea and continental shelf boundaries).

    “It’s good for all countries, … for China we are finally able to clarify with this arbitration China’s maritime entitlements. So that they can say to their constituents this is what international law entitles us to.” – Philippine Foreign Secretary Albert del Rosario

    • And what ‘knowledge’ would that be that which is for Manila’s peril?

      1 of _ nth. Which is which? And how successful;

      – As a UN Security Council member, China Won’t Be a ‘Responsible Stakeholder’?

      – Another number to its Statistics of Failures? Current sample; Press Release: UN Fails to Accommodate Lakota Genocide Complaint

      – Or simply just, A failure to lead at the U.N.

      The UNCLOS needs to step up on this one to avoid a regional full-on confrontation between Asian nations, or international maritime dispute over a strategic commercial sea lane passage.

      OR other nations may jump on board (follow) with this ‘last resort’ initiated by The Phils. who have ongoing disputes with China over the nine dash line covering almost all of South China Sea (West Philippine Sea).

      Way to go Pinoy!

  10. Secretary Del Rosario has a tough job and does it well, no matter what Senator “Loose Cannon” Trillanes says about him. I was just opining about China yesterday in my own blog, and it seems to me that China is simply playing games. The “divide and conquer” strategy forms the backdrop of all they do. They say they want bilateral negotiations, but do absolutely nothing to advance them. They do all they can to create friction within and between other Asian states. The UN track by the Philippines is the correct one, and will likely confirm China’s disregard of Philippine well-being. It is time to start drawing up plans for economic punishments to match Chinese intrusions into Philippine commercial space. Only when China recognizes all of Asia will turn against her commercial interests will she back down to middle ground, a reasonable negotiation and respect for the interests of other states. The Philippines can lead in this “attack back”, representing economic punishments as “fines” for Chinese disregard for Philippine economic space..

      • i started 3 yrs ago not to buy anything made in china,its the only way we can fight back

      • china is much like north korea, recalcitrant. norway once went head to head with china, something about economic dispute. and china responded by withholding supplying norway with rare earth, crippling norway’s supply of rare earth, the mineral best suited for high tech conduction. china never play fair, its understanding of bilateral negotiations is not the chop chop we think it is.

        • let us minimize consuming china-made until such time we stopped patronizing theirs and established our manufacturing industry…

        • U r such a poor country , u have nothing , but u can. Eat bananas ! Hahahah, good food for ur people !

        • We sent aid (rice) to China when your leaders failed your farmers and rural folks to provide when you had famine and natural disasters in the 60s & 70s.

          Back when many of your hungry and dying were eating their dead.

        • Fxxking yellow monkey ! This is my American friends told me this nickname for u guys . Listen philipp was a part of china, and all ur guys are asshole , do u think we r like North Korea ? Ok, guys, u should say North Korea likes china, and ur country is poor , dirty , crazy people. All the things u can do is be a babysitter or nurse….that’s all things u guys can do . This time china mainland and Taiwan will work together, and ur country will lose ur water ! I m serious , we want to kill ur guys . Fuck u Philippine !

        • And now you have American friends. Soon, you’ll include your American friends to go against their allies.

          Wait until your GI friends raise their bazookas and fire power to your dumb-wit head.

          Last reply to this warmongering troll.

        • How can we be even sure you’re Chinese Li? For all you know you’re just the lonely Don Mariano disguised in drag. Do you have an identity document?

        • sya ba uli yung taong walang magawa kundi laitin ang mga pilipino dati dito?
          pero ng makita natin ang pictures nya eh, kahit ano sabihin nya di nya maitatago na pilipino sya (sa hitsura at kulay nya)
          ngayon ito at iba na naman ang katauhan nya. teka ano ka ba talaga?

        • ha ha ha ha si MRP itong si LI???? hayyy ano ba yan, he he he
          kala ko pa naman intsik na talaga…