Foreign Secretary Teodoro Locsin Jr. on Friday rejected a proposal by his colleagues in the Cabinet for a joint investigation with China of the June 9 sinking of a Philippine fishing boat and the abandonment of its 22-man crew by a Chinese trawler near Recto Bank in the South China Sea. Locsin said Malacañang, through Executive Secretary Salvador Medialdea, supported his position against a joint marine inquiry, which he dismissed as an infringement on the country’s sovereignty.

Pazzibugan, D. Z. (2019, June 22). Locsin nixes joint probe of Recto Bank hit-and-run. Philippine Daily Inquirer, pp. A1, A2.