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Last week, you said that you were horrified at the prospect of a gentleman's agreement between former President Duterte and China.
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I think we all should, right?
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And you said as well, Mr. President, that he should be held accountable.
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And since then, experts have said that any such agreement compromising PH's sovereignty or territory
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would be a violation of not just the 2016 arbitral ruling, but Philippine law.
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So my question for you, sir, is how do you intend to hold former President Duterte accountable?
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Are there any actions being taken on this front?
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Well, we still have to find out what it is all about.
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I've tried to get in touch with former officials of the previous administration
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who could possibly have been involved in these discussions.
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And I have to tell you, I haven't got it.
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I haven't gotten a straight answer out of anyone.
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One person says there's no agreement.
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Another person says, no, there was talk, but it's only status quo.
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No, there wasn't.
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Another one will say there was an agreement.
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So I'll go back to the three questions that I asked when this subject came up.
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Number one, the first question I want answered is, was there an agreement in fact?
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I think by now we can see that, in fact, there was a secret agreement.
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And what verifies that and what I think for me at least convinces me that there was in fact a secret agreement
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is the insistence of the Chinese government that there was a secret agreement.
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I do not think the Chinese government, I don't think Beijing will just make up and just out of nowhere say
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there was a secret agreement when there was no such thing.
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So I think, to my mind, that is sufficient to me to prove to me that there was,
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that there was such an agreement.
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The second question I need answered is, what is contained in that secret agreement?
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What did we agree to?
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And why did we agree to that?
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What exactly is it that we compromised?
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Number three, and this is a critical question, why did you keep it secret?
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Why is that not, why is there not,
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why is there not one single document that contains that agreement?
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Why is there not one shred of evidence that can show that this agreement exists?
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Why when we, the transition period between the previous administration to this administration,
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did no one mention a secret agreement?
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Why was it kept secret?
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That's, these are very simple questions.
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I'm finding a great deal of difficulty finding answers for them.
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Because I hear one thing and another thing and another thing and another thing.
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It's all, it's all very,
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maraming palusot, in other words.
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I don't know how to translate that in English, but maraming palusot.
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Let me add, um, a fourth question to that, Mr. President.
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What happens if you find out that there might be a legal liability on the part of former President Trump?
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I cannot see how there could possibly be a legal liability.
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There is no evidence.
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I don't have any agreement.
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Um, another, yes.
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I want, what, what, what, what did we, what, is there a document that is signed?
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I'd love to see it.
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You know, some, it, it, it, it, it does not affect the Philippines.
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And, if there is, I, I have said that before.
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When this first came up a few months ago.
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And, they said, they said, it turns out that the, the Chinese are insisting that there's a secret agreement.
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And, perhaps there is.
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And, I said, I didn't, I don't.
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I don't know anything about the secret agreement.
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Should there be such a secret agreement, I am now rescinding it.
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So, I've rescinded it.
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If, indeed, it exists.
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And, it's, we are so far from getting to the truth, to the nub of the thing.
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We are so far away from it yet.
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That it's very hard to give a reaction to that, to, to those questions.
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Let's get those three questions answered.
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We've answered the first one.
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Now, what is, what is contained in that secret agreement?
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And, why was it kept secret?
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Those are the two questions left.
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Once we get those three answers, real answers, then we will know what to do.
