National Security Council meeting at 8:00 AM. Woke up to 8:00 AM. Sta. Mesa was flooded. So I was late, arrived at 8:40 AM. And we started at 8:45 AM up to 11:45 AM.
Not much questioning on the Moscow agreements and the [Richard] Nixon-[Leonid] Brezhnev conferences.
But discussions of the negotiations on the Bases Agreements. Sen. [Gerardo] Roxas, speaking for the opposition reserved time to consult his party on my proposal to negotiate all the military agreements (Bases agreements, Military Assistance, Mutual Defense as well as the Laurel-Langley Agreement) simultaneously so that we can use our strength in one to make up for any weaknesses in the other.
Cong. [Carmelo] Barbero suggested that we give Russia some refueling stations to their ships.
Cong. [Jose] de Venecia [Jr.] suggested that we have a joint inspection team to check the existence of ballistic missiles in the American bases and that bases be placed under [our] commanders.
We agreed to postpone action on the organization of the panel to negotiate the agreements. But we decided to include congressional members, one from each house for each party.
Official Gazette for June 9, 1972: PRESIDENT MARCOS presided over a meeting of the National Security Council, held from 8:45 to 11:15 a.m. at Camp Aguinaldo, during which the council voted to negotiate not only the Military Bases Agreement but all existing security and economic agreements with the United States.
These include the mutual defense and the military assistance pacts and the Laurel-Langley Agreement.
Representatives of the Liberal Party made reservations about their stand as to whether negotiations on the security agreement should be held simultaneously with the economic agreements. They wanted time to form a party stand on the matter.
During the meeting, it was also:
1) Decided to increase the membership of the Executive Committee of the NSC from five to 11, including two additional members of the Cabinet and one representative each of the majority and minority parties, from the Senate and the Lower House.
2) Suggested that missions to be sent to communist countries like Russia and Red China be Executive-Legislative missions. The executive committee was asked to draw formal recommendations on this, particularly in respect to timing and its full composition.
The President did not receive callers in the afternoon. He worked on state papers and went over reports from government agencies, including one from Engr. Porfirio de la Fuente, chief of the Flood Control and Drainage Division of the Bureau of Public Works, on the dredging of esteros and drainage mains in Manila.
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And another meeting on the 29th, at 9:00 AM for a presentation of the options that are open to us in the bases agreements as well as the other amendments.
I attach the transcript of the interview of Delegate [Eduardo] Quintero by the Vigilantes.
No additional news on the assassination plot. But Cong. [Moises] Escueta and Gen. [Fabian] Ver are working on it,
I plan to send somebody else in the Independence Day celebration.