President Rodrigo Duterte has vowed proper compensation to the kin of the two Vietnamese fishermen who were killed last month while allegedly poaching in the South China Sea (West Philippine Sea), according to Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana.

The commitment was made after Lorenzana held a dialogue with his Vietnamese counterpart, Ngo Xuan Lich, in Camp Aguinaldo in Quezon City on Thursday, or two days after the Association of Southeast Asian Nations Defense Ministers’ Meeting concluded.

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