Matches in DBpedia 2016-04 for { ?s ?p "The Enhanced Defense Cooperation Agreement (EDCA) is a 2014 agreement between the United States and the Philippines that seeks to bolster the U.S.–Philippine alliance. The agreement allows the United States to rotate troops into the Philippines for extended stays and allows the U.S. to build and operate facilities on Philippine bases, for both American and Philippine forces. The U.S. is not allowed to establish any permanent military bases. It also gives Philippine personnel access to American ships and planes. The EDCA is a supplemental agreement to the previous Visiting Forces Agreement.Evan Medeiros, the U.S. National Security Council’s senior director for Asian affairs was quoted in the Washington Post as saying, \"This is the most significant defense agreement that we have concluded with the Philippines in decades.\"The agreement was signed by Philippine Defense Secretary Voltaire Gazmin and U.S. Ambassador to the Philippines Philip Goldberg in Manila on April 28, 2014, which was timed before an official state visit by U.S. President Barack Obama. On January 12, 2016, the Philippine Supreme Court upheld the agreement's constitutionality in a 10–4 vote."@en }
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- Enhanced_Defense_Cooperation_Agreement abstract "The Enhanced Defense Cooperation Agreement (EDCA) is a 2014 agreement between the United States and the Philippines that seeks to bolster the U.S.–Philippine alliance. The agreement allows the United States to rotate troops into the Philippines for extended stays and allows the U.S. to build and operate facilities on Philippine bases, for both American and Philippine forces. The U.S. is not allowed to establish any permanent military bases. It also gives Philippine personnel access to American ships and planes. The EDCA is a supplemental agreement to the previous Visiting Forces Agreement.Evan Medeiros, the U.S. National Security Council’s senior director for Asian affairs was quoted in the Washington Post as saying, \"This is the most significant defense agreement that we have concluded with the Philippines in decades.\"The agreement was signed by Philippine Defense Secretary Voltaire Gazmin and U.S. Ambassador to the Philippines Philip Goldberg in Manila on April 28, 2014, which was timed before an official state visit by U.S. President Barack Obama. On January 12, 2016, the Philippine Supreme Court upheld the agreement's constitutionality in a 10–4 vote.".