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The Reciprocal Access Agreement (RAA) between Japan and the Philippines would help maintain peace in the South China Sea, President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. told Japanese Prime Minister Kishida Fumio on Sunday.
At the sidelines of the 50th Commemorative Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean)-Japan Friendship and Cooperation Summit, Marcos and Kishida held a bilateral meeting.
“This reciprocal access agreement that will give us a greater capability in terms of not only security, but also in terms of disaster preparedness and alleviation, adjustment and that is something that really is very, very significant to us and will bring to us a greater capacity to maintain the peace in the South China Sea,” Marcos told Kishida.
