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| RP-France relations; agreements, military exercise, news | |
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| Tweet Topic Started: Sat May 3, 2014 10:53 am (118 Views) | |
| Flipzi | Sat May 3, 2014 10:53 am Post #1 |
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PH, France may sign new cooperation deal By Alexis Romero, The Philippine Star Posted at 05/03/2014 9:27 AM | Updated as of 05/03/2014 9:27 AM MANILA, Philippines - France sees the Philippines as a key partner in Southeast Asia. French Navy Cmdr. Frederic Daumas said they are looking forward to signing a new cooperation agreement with the Philippine Navy. “We hope that in the future, we will increase our partnership and maybe sign a new agreement reinforcing our cooperation,” he said. “We need to be interoperable. We need to know each other’s procedure, each other’s material and that’s why we need to train more together.” The Philippine Navy and the French Navy formally started their partnership when they signed an agreement in 1999, he added. Daumas is commanding officer of the 93.5-meter French Navy ship Prairial, which ended its five-day goodwill visit yesterday. The Prairial has 93 crew members comprised of military and civilians. It has visited the Philippines seven times. Philippine Navy officials led by Capt. Benito Ante sent off the French contingent in simple ceremonies at South Harbor in Manila. Daumas said they are seeking to boost the relationship with the Philippine Navy as every nation must uphold freedom of navigation and the rules governing the sea. “It is a very important partner because every country has its own responsibility, regionally to protect the rule of the sea, the freedom of navigation, protect the environment and be able to secure its own area,” he said. “France as a permanent member of United Nations Security Council, of course, is really concerned with global security and we want every partner and every friend to contribute in securing the world’s future for the coming generations.” Daumas said they are enhancing their ties with other countries, especially those in the Asia Pacific, which he believes is the center of strategic views in the 21st century. “We all need to participate in securing this area and building friendly relationships with as many partners as we can,” he said. Daumas said they are also planning to visit South Korea, Japan and China to uphold freedom of navigation. “We need to establish links with everybody and we need to be sure that everybody works in the same way in protecting the interest of the freedom of navigation,” he said. “And the high sea belongs to everybody and should not be taken by one country.” Navy ready for Chinese The Navy is ready to protect Philippine territory in the West Philippine Sea against Chinese claims. Speaking to reporters at Naval Forces Western Mindanao (NFWM) Thursday, new Navy chief Rear Adm. Jesus Millan said equipment and surface assets are dedicated in every unified command, including the Armed Forces Western Command (Wescom), which oversees Palawan and Ayungin Shoal. “We take guidance from our national leadership and we are sustaining what is already there,” he said. “What we are doing is prepare our units to be able to provide the necessary response to what is needed. We are preparing our men and equipment.” Marines stationed in the grounded BRP Sierra Madre are guarding Ayungin Shoal within the country’s 200-nautical mile exclusive economic zone (EEZ). Navy officials accompanying Millan asked the local government in the area to show a strong Philippine presence. http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/nation/05/03/14/ph-france-may-sign-new-cooperation-deal |
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Alfred Alexander L. Marasigan Manila, Philippines getflipzi@yahoo.com http://z6.invisionfree.com/flipzi " Sovereignty resides in the people and all government authority emanates from them!" " People don't care what we know until they know we care." | |
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| Flipzi | Sat May 3, 2014 3:05 pm Post #2 |
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France to PH: you don’t need to only have one ally French Navy Commander Frédéric Daumas, commanding officer of the visiting Prairial – a French multi-purpose frigate, said It will be a good idea to have procurements from other countries, not just from the United States. “It’s not to say that they are not our best ally, because they are the best ally of everybody. But you don’t need to have only one ally, and you don’t need to put all your eggs in the same basket.” “I think you already have a lot of American equipment. Most of your ships are coming from the American Navy, second-hand ships. I think it is good to have different ways of working, different procedures, different organizations, and if you have only one major partner, probably you deprive yourself of having a variety of points of view, a variety of partnerships,” Daumas added. Daumas said France is upholding the common goal of protecting freedom of navigation in the Pacific. “We want to reaffirm that we apply the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea and that with all our partners, we have a common understanding on what needs to be done.” http://www.angmalaya.net/nation/2014/05/02/203-france-to-ph-you-dont-need-to-only-have-one-ally Viva la France! That's true, France. We need your Exocets, Mirage jets and stealth ships too to help bolster our defense. ![]() Edited by Flipzi, Sat May 3, 2014 3:11 pm.
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Alfred Alexander L. Marasigan Manila, Philippines getflipzi@yahoo.com http://z6.invisionfree.com/flipzi " Sovereignty resides in the people and all government authority emanates from them!" " People don't care what we know until they know we care." | |
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| Flipzi | Mon May 5, 2014 11:18 am Post #3 |
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France has always seen PH as a potential key partner in SEA from Anne De Bretagne (Philippine Sabah Claim Forum); France has always seen PH as a potential key partner in SEA. In fact, France was the first country in the world to recognise the 'revolutionary govt' of Cory Aquino immediately after the fall of Marcos, ahead of the US. As proof how high France valued the new PH Republic then, France invited Mrs Aquino to grace the historic bicentennial French 1789 Celebration as the nation's only guest of honour, an honour reserved for another country's official whom France held in great esteem. In fact, during Cory's guesting in France, the French Govt accorded a singular request by the Cory Aquino Govt to sell missiles to PH, something which the US has always denied PH. In 1994, France signed a defence cooperation agreement during the visit of FVR. The French-PH defence assistance and cooperation agreement was signed by the defence ministers of both countries and witnessed by several officials, one of them being a PH Navy commander who graduated from France's Ecole de Guerre (and who later on became FOIC, PN). But Ph, sadly, has not deemed it important to take advantage of the said defence assistance and cooperation agreement. Truth is that PH has many potential strong allies, potential key partners, not only in trade but also in defence, but as ever, PH officials have failed to grasp the incredible potentials they could forge with these countries, preferring instead to turn to showbiz politics all the time and only to use the various agreements it had signed to show off at home (meant most likely just for local entertainment) with no real follow up after the agreements are signed. PH must take a close look at its reservoir of agreements, treaties, etc etc it has signed with various nations and begin to seriously -- and I mean seriously, take steps to renew and rebuild alliances that are only waiting to be reinvigorated. NB: Ph could have gotten everything it virtually wanted from France back then, particularly in defence (when Cory Aquino was the darling of France, especially that Mrs Aquino spoke French fluently) but the Cory Aquino Govt failed to take advantage of the new alliance. I've always wondered why PH was do lally. Incidentally, Cory Aquino's press secretary then was French-speaking Teddy Benigno, who was the Agence France Presse bureau chief in Manila at the time. https://www.facebook.com/groups/philippinesabahclaimforum/?fref=nf Edited by Flipzi, Mon May 5, 2014 11:19 am.
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Alfred Alexander L. Marasigan Manila, Philippines getflipzi@yahoo.com http://z6.invisionfree.com/flipzi " Sovereignty resides in the people and all government authority emanates from them!" " People don't care what we know until they know we care." | |
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