By Junex Doronio
MANILA — Aside from China, Vietnam is also causing headaches for the Philippines, as the Philippine Navy (PN) said on Monday (10 June 2024) it is monitoring Vietnam’s dredging and landfill work within the Kalayaan Island Group.
PN spokesperson for the West Philippine Sea (WPS) Commodore Roy Vincent Trinidad disclosed that the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) is also taking action.
“Nakatutok naman tayo doon [we’re monitoring that], but I believe the more appropriate agency to give the details of that would be DFA. May action naman ang DFA doon [the DFA is doing actions regarding that],” Trinidad said in a Super Radyo dzBB interview.
These territories are being claimed by Manila which maintains these are part of the Kalayaan Island Group.
Vietnam has been conducting dredging operations of reefs it occupies in the South China Sea.
It was learned that Vietnam has been able to reclaim a total of 692 acres or 280 hectares in the last six months.
(el Amigo/MNM)
