Petitioners
challenging Malacañang’s latest agreement with the United States for military
cooperation in the country have asked the Supreme Court (SC) to reconsider its
decision upholding the pact known as the Enhanced Defense Cooperation Agreement
(EDCA).
In their
82-page motion for reconsideration the petitioners led by the left leaning
Bagong Alyansang Makabayan (Bayan), among other things, said the
agreement,contrary to popular belief, does not provide a counter balance to the
encroachment by mainland China on Philippine territorial waters.
“EDCA will not defend the
Quoting news reports on Goldberg, Bayan’s lawyers cited that Goldberg has clarified that the disputes in the
“EDCA isn’t directly related to the
“Certainly, this is so because there is nothing in EDCA that assures automatic
according to the
US Department of Treasury, adding that under such a scenario it would make it
very unlikely for the US to
go to war against China .
The group added that an agreement like EDCA that derogates the Constitution and various laws and international law principles should be struck down for being unconstitutional.
The petitioners cited EDCA’s silence on its compliance on the Philippine constitution’s ban on nuclear weapons.
The group said that Article IV, par. 6 of the EDCA does not prohibit nuclear weapons. It merely provides that nuclear weapons will not be among the prepositioned materiel and that nowhere in the EDCA is it provided that warships and aircrafts carrying nuclear weapons are absolutely barred from Philippine territory.
http://www.tribune.net.ph/nation/groups-appeal-sc-ruling-on-edca
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