Iris Gonzales, Alexis Romero
MANILA, Philippines - The United States is not building any weapons depot in the Philippines.
US Ambassador Sung Kim made the clarification a day after President Duterte accused the US of building permanent arms storage facilities in the country.
“The US is not building any weapons depot anywhere in the Philippines,” Kim said in a forum organized by the Makati Business Club.
Kim said Duterte may have been mis- informed.
“I think some misinformation was given to the President and that’s why he gave that statement expressing concerns about a possible weapons depot,” he said.
Duterte, in yet another tirade against the US, said Washington was bringing weapons into three provinces in the coun- try, risking regional stability.
He said this was a dangerous breach of a defense deal between the US and the Philippines.
“They’re unloading arms in the Phil- ippines now ... I’m serving notice to the armed forces of the United States. Do not do it, I will not allow it,” Duterte said in a televised news conference.
However, Kim stressed that there is nothing planned that “even closely re- sembles a weapons depot.”
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