US vaccine aid may have helped save VFA

US vaccine aid may have helped save VFA – Roque

By Currie Cator

Aug 03, 2021 12:35 am

THE vaccine donation from the United States may be one of the reasons President Rodrigo Duterte lost interest in abolishing the Visiting Forces Agreement (VFA), his spokesman Harry Roque Jr. said on Monday.

'Consider the totality of circumstances. There's a good possibility that [it] was part of the equation,' Roque said in explaining the President's decision to retain the VFA.

US DEFENSE CHIEF VISIT. President Rodrigo Duterte does a fist bump with US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin III during a courtesy call on the President at the Malacañang Palace on July 29, 2021. Duterte and Austin agreed that the Philippines and the US should bolster their cooperation in battling the coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) pandemic and transnational crimes, as well as in trade and investments. (Presidential Photo)

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