Supreme Court Senior Associate Justice Antonio Carpio has said that even if the Philippines wins in the arbitral dispute it has lodged against China on the West Philippine Sea, the decision would most likely go unenforced.
In a speech he delivered before graduating law students of the Pamantasan ng Lungsod ng Maynila, Carpio noted that under the United Nations Charter, a winning state in a decision by the International Court of Justice can ask the Security Council to enforce the decision.
“However, UNCLOS does not not provide any enforcement mechanism for decision of the International Tribunal on the Law of the Sea (ITLOS) or the arbitral tribunals created under the UNCLOS,” he said.