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PRESIDENT Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. stood firm on Monday that the Philippines will not resort into equipping the Philippine vessels with water cannons similar to how the China Coast Guard (CCG) is doing against the Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) vessels in the West Philippine Sea (WPS).<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n In an ambush interview on the sidelines of the Government-Owned or -Controlled Corporations (GOCCs) Day in Pasay City, President Marcos said the Philippine Navy and the Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) will continue to lower tensions in the WPS.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u201cWe will not follow the Chinese Coast Guard (CCG) and the Chinese vessels down that road because it is not the mission of Navy, our Coast Guard to start, or to increase tensions,\u201d President Marcos told reporters.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u201cTheir mission is precisely the opposite, it\u2019s to lower tensions,\u201d he added.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n President Marcos made the remarks when asked if he will approve proposals to equip Philippine vessels with water cannon in response to the aggressive attacks by the CCG against the country\u2019s vessels.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n The President stood firm that the Philippines will continue defending the sovereign rights and its sovereignty in all diplomatic forms.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u201cNo. We are, what we are doing is defending our sovereign rights and our sovereignty in the West Philippine Sea. And we have no intention of attacking anyone with water cannons or any other such offensive\u2026I would have to call them weapon dahil nakaka-damage na,\u201d President Marcos said.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u201cAll we do is pagka-nangyayari wina-water cannon \u2018yung mga barko natin ay nagpapadala tayo ng d\u00e9marche, nagpapadala tayo ng sulat sa China and the other stakeholders,\u201d he added.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n A d\u00e9marche is a diplomatic gesture to state a government\u2019s position on an issue or subject.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n The CCG recently used a \u201cjet stream pressure\u201d water cannon against the Philippine vessels on routine humanitarian mission to Bajo de Masinloc.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n While President Marcos emphasized that the Philippines will not use any \u201coffensive weapon\u201d against anyone, he said \u201cthe last thing\u201d that the government would do \u201cis to raise the tensions in the West Philippine Sea.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" PRESIDENT Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. stood firm on Monday that the Philippines will not resort into equipping the Philippine vessels with water cannons similar to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5626,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5625"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5625"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5625\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5627,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5625\/revisions\/5627"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}