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By Efren L. Danao Senior
Reporter
Sen. Miriam Defensor Santiago,
recognizing the difficulty of getting
the Senate’s conditional concurrence in the ratification of the
Japan-Philippine Economic Partnership Agreement (JPEPA), deferred
Monday her sponsorship of the controversial agreement.
Santiago, chairman of the Senate
Committee on Foreign Relations, said that the deferment would allow
the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) to explore the exchange of
notes between the Philippines and Japan that would later be
presented as an integral part of JPEPA during the plenary debate on
its concurrence.
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