Press Release
March 15, 2009

Press statement of Senator Loren Legarda

ON OBAMA CALL

Our government must uphold the national interest. While US President Barrack Obama has called by phone on President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo to congratulate her on the anti-terrorism drive, and plugged for continued implementation of the Visiting Forces Agreement, we must consider as supreme our national interest.

The fact is that the VFA is subjecting our people to constant danger because of the continuous war exercises conducted by US armed forces on our soil. While the exercises are supposed to be joint operations with our own military, the truth is that our military is being relegated to a subordinate position. Despite the termination of the RP-US bases agreement by the Senate, American troops are apparently already being permanently based on Philippine territory, in violation of our Constitution.

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