Fresh from his official visit to Japan, President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. says, ‘We’ll talk to the embassy of Japan and then we’ll start.’
ABOARD THE PRESIDENTIAL PLANE – After concluding his first official visit to Japan, President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. said he would support entering into a reciprocal military access agreement with Tokyo if it would help protect Filipino fishermen and the Philippines’ maritime territory.
The statement comes after Marcos held a 45-minute bilateral summit with Japanese Prime Minster Fumio Kishida in Tokyo, where the two leaders agreed to commit to “economic security” and deepen defense ties between their two countries.Marcos said Kishida raised the prospect of a potential reciprocal access or status of forces agreement during their meeting “very briefly,” to which he replied that the agreement was under study by the Philippines.
While focused on disaster relief, regional analysts and observers see the effort as moving one step closer to a reciprocal military access agreement because it involves elements that a similar military access deal would cover.
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