Mounting Scrap-VFA calls
“As one of the five senators who voted in 1998 against the Visiting Forces Agreement, I feel vindicated in my position that it is one-sided in favor of the US and that it compromises our sovereignty.
“For the sake of our national interest and self-respect as a nation, our government should now take this occasion to abrogate the agreement that is a humiliation to all of us Filipinos who are not treated equally even in our own homeland. At the same time, the VFA is contrary to the provisions of our Constitution prohibiting the permanent basing of foreign troops in our country.
“Unless our country stands up for our right of equality in international relations, we Filipinos shall be second-class citizens even in our land, and well shall not progress.”
LOREN LEGARDA
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