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Santiago suggests termination of VFA

The Philippines should consider terminating its Visiting Forces Agreement (VFA) with the United States because US military forces are the actual sources of hazardous waste being dumped in local waters, Sen. Miriam Defensor-Santiago suggested Sunday.

 

Santiago offered the idea after noting that the new US military strategy of ?pivoting? to Asia would mean ?the marked frequency of the visits of US aircraft carriers, nuclear-powered submarines and increased presence of US naval forces in the Philippines.?

 

The way things would go, it could mean ?the VFA (is) on the way to becoming by itself, a toxic waste phenomenon,? she said.

 

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