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Miriam: Renegotiate or abrogate VFA.

Philippine Daily Inquirer

| August 31, 2009 | COPYRIGHT 2001 Philippine Daily Inquirer Inc. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

Byline: Christine O. Avendano

LIFE WILL GO ON IN THE EVENT THE COUNtry junks the Visiting Forces Agreement (VFA) with the United States, Sen. Miriam Defensor-Santiago said yesterday.

Santiago said in a dzBB radio interview yesterday that she would seek the scrapping of the pact altogether should the US reject proposals to renegotiate the VFA.

Santiago, who chairs the Senate foreign relations committee, said she would have its members sign on Tuesday the committee report containing the findings and recommendations of the just-concluded Senate hearing into the VFA.

She said she would then sponsor a resolution on the floor expressing the sense of the …

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