The Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) is confident that it will be able to submit its arguments before the March 30 deadline to the United Nations-backed International Tribunal of the Law of the Sea (Itlos) regarding its disputes with China over the West Philippine Sea (South China Sea).

In an interview, Foreign Affairs spokesman Raul Hernandez said the Philippines was given on or before March 30 to submit its Memorial, which will contain the legal basis of its arbitration case against China, to the five-member arbitral tribunal in The Hague.

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