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“We need to develop Pag-asa Island so the civilians will stay there,” Padilla said in Filipino during his visit to the island on Friday. Instead of decreasing, the population there should be increasing, he added.Fishers in Pag-asa Island were reportedly anxious about sailing farther out to sea as Chinese vessels could block their boats.“Pag-asa is ours,” Padilla later said on Facebook. “I believe Pag-asa Island will play a big role in the Philippines’ history. This is ours.
The move was triggered by the latest incidents of Chinese aggression in the West Philippine Sea, including the firing of water cannons at Filipino boats seeking to resupply the BRP Sierra Madre on Ayungin Shoal, which is within the country’s exclusive economic zone. He noted that existing laws already aligned the country’s archipelagic baseline system with the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea , to which the Philippines is a signatory.
If enacted into law, the proposed measure will prohibit foreign ships or aircraft from conducting unauthorized research and survey activities as well as fishing, marine bioprospecting, loading, and unloading of persons, goods, or currency.
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