SENATE Minority Leader Franklin Drilon said while Senate ratification was needed to make the Visiting Forces Agreement (VFA) valid, which the Senate did during the Estrada presidency, it could now be terminated without concurrence of the chamber.

Drilon over the weekend recalled that in 2017, he tried to pass a Senate resolution that required Senate concurrence in termination of treaties in  general.

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