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Sale of war reparations turned down

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Senate President Vicente Sotto III said Friday it’s impractical to sell the Philippines’s four war- reparation properties in Japan to raise money for the fight against COVID-19.

He said those properties were symbols of the Philippines’ diplomatic ties with Japan, and that there were many other government properties in the Philippines that it could sell instead.

Senator Aquilino Pimentel III said the properties in Japan, being war reparations, belonged to the Filipino people.

“Do not sell. Anyway, there is no clamor or even sentiment from the people to sell these,” he said.

Foreign Secretary Teodoro Locsin Jr. also objected to the sale, saying “corrupt and incompetent health officials” should be sold instead

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“To raise funds to fight COVID, don’t sell Japan properties,” Locsin posted on his Twitter account.

Sell corrupt and incompetent health officials in the slave markets of North Africa. Although nearly worthless, if we sell them all we’ll raise a bit.”

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