Robredo: PH sovereign rights in sea row 'not debatable'

VICE President Maria Leonor "Leni" Robredo and Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenza maintained on Thursday that the Philippines' sovereign rights over the Ayungin Shoal was "not debatable" and that China was "trespassing".

Robredo and Lorenzana issued their statements separately but on the same day that political experts proposed that there may be a need for the two countries to go back to the negotiating table to resolve the territorial dispute over a portion of the South China Sea which the Philippines has claimed lay within its exclusive economic zone or EEZ.