The United States has sent a list of aid for the Philippine military, and the country’s Ambassador to the United States Jose Manuel Romualdez hopes this would be enough to satisfy the President’s concerns in connection with the Visiting Forces Agreement (VFA).
Romualdez said he considered President Rodrigo Duterte’s demand for payment from the United States in exchange for retaining the VFA to be connected to the need to modernize the Armed Forces of the Philippines.
“Regarding President Duterte’s statement about payment, our interpretation is because there is already a need to modernize our armed forces,” Romualdez said at an online briefing.
He said the Pentagon had since prov…
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