WHILE the Philippine government's alleged promise to tow away the BRP Sierra Madre from Ayungin Shoal has become a hot topic only in the past few days, the claim had already been exposed and became controversial way back in 2014.
Indeed so much so that the DFA issued a statement on it, which I quote verbatim from the Official Gazette's website:'The Department of Foreign Affairs' statement on China's allegation that the Philippines agreed to pull out of the Ayungin ShoalThe BRP Sierra Madre, a commissioned Philippine Naval Vessel, was placed in Ayungin Shoal in 1999 to serve as a permanent Philippine government installation in response to China's illegal occupation of Mischief Reef in 1995.
The Chinese started harassing Philippine resupplying missions to the BRP Sierra Madre, and invoking Estrada's promise that it would be towed away, only after Aquino's government first informed China on January 2013 that it would be filing the suit on the basis of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea .
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