THE coronavirus pandemic was among the reasons behind President Rodrigo Duterte’s decision to call off the scrapping of the Visiting Forces Agreement (VFA) with the United States, Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana said on Wednesday.

Lorenzana said the President considered terminating the decades-old military accord would

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