President Rodrigo Duterte has not ordered the military to stop patrolling the West Philippine Sea, Malacañang and Armed Forces officials said. Opposition lawmaker Gary Alejano, a Magdalo party-list representative, claimed that Duterte directed the Armed Forces to halt patrol activities in the disputed body of water. Colonel Edgard Arevalo, Armed Forces spokesperson, disputed this in a radio interview on Sunday.

'Duterte didn't order halt in WPS patrol'. (2018, June 11). Panay News, pp. 8, 14.