MANILA (Reuters) – The Philippines has fully restored a crucial agreement governing the U.S. troop presence in the country, the Southeast Asian nation’s defence minister Delfin Lorenzana said on Friday.
The announcement, which was made during a visit by U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, marks a reversal after President Rodrigo Duterte had told Washington last year he was cancelling the Visiting Forces Agreement (VFA) signed in 1998.
(Reporting by Idrees Ali and Karen Lema; Editing by Ed Davies)
