JAPANESE LAWMAKER SAYS EXPECTS PROGRESS ON RECIPROCAL TROOP PACT WITH PHILIPPINES

MANILA — A Japanese lawmaker and former defense minister said on Friday he is hopeful that a reciprocal troop pact between Japan and the Philippines will be ratified during a ministerial meeting in Manila in July.

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Japanese Diet lawmaker Itsunori Onodera also told a press conference in Manila that challenges in the South China Sea are legitimate concerns of the international community, Japanese Diet lawmaker Itsunori Onodera told a press conference.

—Reporting by Mikhail Flores; Editing by John Mair

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