President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. on Thursday said the 1951 Mutual Defense Treaty (MDT) between the Philippines with the United States is “continuously under negotiation” and undergoing evolution because the conditions are changing. READ:
Mr. Marcos made this remark in an interview on the sidelines of the Kadiwa ng Pasko project in Quezon City.
“We covered that and many more subjects. But essentially, on security, what we looked upon were their proposals, the joint military exercises and EDCA, the use of our bases, all of these. We are in the middle of that,” the President said. The group, according to Carlos, is compos ed of officials from the National Security Council, the Department of National Defense and the Department of Foreign Affairs.
EDCA, signed under the administration of former President Benigno Aquino III, allows US forces access to five Philippine bases to help counterbalance the growing Chinese presence in the South China Sea.
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