KIG and Scarborough out of the baseline, draft says

A draft baseline that excludes the Kalayaan Island Group (KIG) and Scarborough Shoal, treating them as “regime of islands” within Philippine territory, is the most likely submission of the Philippine government to UNCLOS in April next year, according to this collaborative report by veteran journalists. (click to see link)

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2 Responses to “KIG and Scarborough out of the baseline, draft says”

  1. quarryman Says:
    March 30, 2008 at 12:19 pm

    inside or part of the extended baseline or whatever don’t matter anymore. we were sold by judas for 40 pieces of silver. but we have a different kind of judas in this transaction. our judas here doesn’t have a conscience. if we can’t deal with the borneo/sabah problem with the malaysians how much more kalayaan? we can already feel the chinese’s arm-twisting of our leaders and it’s only a matter of time before we hear bones breaking and render us disabled.

  2. Jose Samilin Says:
    February 5, 2009 at 5:10 am

    The quarryman is right, in fact, by history, the Philippines own the KIG. The patriotism of our government leaders was overshadowed by their personal conflict of interest, so they mess up in dealing with the international community who set their claims. Long before their claims was lodged, actual and physical ownership already belong to Philippines with the existence Filipino families already inhabited the Islands. I strongly suspect that the failure to fully document the the Philippine ownership by past leaders is about their prevaling personal interest believing that Filipinos are ignorant of the truth about this islands, with personal agenda to own it that excludes the Philipines. What is this idea now to eclude KIG and merely treat it as “regime of Islands”? Can we trust anyone now about this?

    What we need to do is to put together and strengthen our proof of Philippine owneship, in what ever forms it may come, whether, paperworks, testimonies, historical records, foresic evidence, artifacts, photos, activeties of people, poems and songs created there, traditions of people who lived their dances, past times, jokes, events or equipment, like remnants of boats and tools, pottery, kitchenwares, wood curvings and et cetera, et cetera all other things that can has relivants, that may bring recollection of joy, sadness, anger, celebrations and all anything man could imagine.
    The KIG is undoubtedly belog to the Philippines.

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