Marcos: US-Japan-PH trilateral agreement ‘not directed against anyone’
By HANA BORDEY, GMA Integrated News Published April 15, 2024 2:58pm President Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. on Monday said that the cooperation agreement by the Philippines, the United States, and Japan is not directed against anyone and not a direct response to “incidents” that are happening against the Philippines. “It is not a response to […]
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By HANA BORDEY, GMA Integrated News
President Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. on Monday said that the cooperation agreement by the Philippines, the United States, and Japan is not directed against anyone and not a direct response to “incidents” that are happening against the Philippines.
“It is not a response to the immediate occurrences, incidents that are happening to us, with us, around us,” Marcos said at Foreign Correspondents Association of the Philippines’ 50th Anniversary Presidential Forum.
“It is not directed against anyone. It is merely a strengthening or formalization and execution of supposedly the relationship of the US, Japan and the Philippines,” he added.
A day after meeting President Joe Biden and Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, Marcos told a press conference in Washington that “the trilateral agreement is extremely important.”
“It is going to change the dynamic, the dynamic that we see in the region, in ASEAN in Asia, around the South China Sea,” Marcos said, referring to the Association of Southeast Asian Nations.—AOL. GMA Integrated News
