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Philippine Central Bank recently released a new version of money (pesos) Design allegations of "obvious geographical error. " Philippine President Corazon Aquino III, responded today, "Our money is not the map. "
Third world Aquino personally at the presidential palace on Thursday unveiled new bills. 1000 peso notes in the new version printed on the back "Tubbataha Reef National Park - UNESCO (UNESCO) World Heritage Site"message, with the Philippine map, with black spots mark the location of reefs. Filipino people that the new 1,000 peso bill identifies the Tubbataha Reef National Park location, away from the actual location about 300 kilometers.
Aquino III, Ninoy Aquino International Airport today in an interview for the new defense bill. He said that we should love the map, not the map makers work, "notes the design already has some arts play space. "
He said it is important to note the improvement on the Philippine version of security features, which greatly increased the difficulty to counterfeit pesos. In this regard, the design of the new Philippine central bank money to the "main purpose. "
Earlier today at a press conference, the Philippine presidential spokesman Edwin Laxieerda said the criticism that the new bills purely critical, "they are always looking for opportunities to attack the president, even if some things and President has nothing to do. "
Edwin Laxieerda stressed that money is not the map, do not really use the latitude and longitude to mark the location of Tubbataha Reef.
According to local media reports, the Philippine peso bank note design of the new version, a total of 20,50,100,200,500 and 1000 six denominations, from 20 pesos denomination banknotes into circulation on Friday.
