President Marcos has signed Republic Act (RA) No. 12174, or the Chemical Weapons Prohibition Act, banning the development, production, stockpiling, and use of chemical weapons.File photosThe new law, signed on April 15, aligns with the Philippines' commitments under the Chemical Weapons Convention,...
The Senate on Monday, December 9, approved on third and final reading Senate Bill No. 2871 or the bill banning the production, financing and use of chemical weapons. Twenty-two (22) senators voted in favor of the proposed “Chemical Weapons Prohibition Act”; there were no negative...
Senate President Pro Tempore Jinggoy Ejercito Estrada has urged lawmakers to ensure there is sufficient funds to address possible mass casualty events involving chemical, biological, radioactive, and nuclear incidents (CBRN) and countering operations that utilizes weapons of mass...
Some senators are now pushing for bipartisan support on the measure that seeks to ban and criminalize the use and production of chemical weapons. Senate President Pro Tempore Jinggoy Ejercito Estrada, chairperson of the Senate Committee on National Defense and Security, said the enactment into...
President Marcos has called on China and the United States of America (USA) to engage in meaningful discussions to limit any nuclear arms build-up in the Indo-Pacific, reminding them of the horrors nuclear weapons brought to the people in the region.President Ferdinand ‘Bongbong’ Marcos Jr....
The House plenary. (Speaker’s office) With 197 "yes" votes, the House of Representatives approved on third and final reading on Tuesday, Jan. 23 the measure that prohibits the development, production, acquisition, stockpiling, or retention of any chemical...
The Philippines is helping pursue diplomatic talks among various nations in a bid to eventually establish a mechanism facilitating international cooperation and assistance under the Biological Weapons Convention (BWC).That's through Philippine Permanent Mission in Geneva's second secretary, Jonelle...
What happened to the decommissioning of weapons in the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM)?
Basilan lone district Rep. Mujiv Hataman (center) (Facebook)
House Deputy Minority Leader and Basilan lone district Rep. Mujiv Hataman had this question in mind amid the spate of...
Department of National Defense (DND) Secretary Carlito Galvez Jr. on Saturday, Feb. 4, quelled fears of possible development or test of nuclear weapons to be allegedly conducted by the United States in military facilities of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) as part of the implementation of...
Rescuers carry a body taken from the rubble of a residential building destroyed after a missile strike, in Dnipro on January 15, 2023, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine. The death toll rose to at least 20 on January 15 after a strike on a residential building in Dnipro on January 14, a city in...
SEOUL, South Korea -- North Korea's Kim Jong Un has called for a major increase in the country's nuclear arsenal, including mass producing tactical nuclear weapons and developing new missiles for nuclear counterstrikes, state media said Sunday.
In a report at the end of a key party meeting in...
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres (Front) speaks at a Security Council open debate on integrating effective resilience-building in peace operations for sustainable peace at the UN headquarters in New York, on Nov. 3, 2022. (Eskinder Debebe/UN Photo/Handout via Xinhua)
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