Apart from asking for the public’s opinion on the country’s Visiting Forces Agreement (VFA) with the United States, President Duterte is also considering the views of the military in deciding the fate of the suspended 1999 pact, Foreign Secretary Teodoro Locsin Jr. said on Thursday.
“Important is [the] sense of the military from whose chiefs Cabinet gets a sense of hostility because of shabby treatment in among other things military exercises where, officers complain, they just drool looking at—maybe handling even—but never getting to keep superior weaponry,” Locsin said in a post on Twitter.
Locsin posted the remark after Mr. Duterte, at a televised public briefing, said he wa…
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