A maritime expert told a Senate panel Friday there is no need for the Philippines to enact a maritime zone
“I would argue and I suspect that the attorneys here at the table would say that the Philippine claims are already well-fortified under international law,” Gregory Poling, director of the Southeast Asia Program and Asia Maritime Transparency Initiative, said.
The committee seeks to draw up its own Philippine map to counter China’s expansive 10-dash line map that lays claim to the exclusive economic zones of several countries, including the Philippines.“They are immutable just as they are for every other nation under UNCLOS ,” he said. Neil Simon Silva of the UP Institute for Maritime Affairs and Law of the Sea said if the Philippines wants the international community to support its claims, it will need a law that will be in consonance with the existing international laws.
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