MANILA, Philippines -- With the furor being raised over it, the full text of the Joint Marine Seismic Undertaking (JMSU) is now missing from the website of the Department of Foreign Affairs, according to Parañaque City Rep. Roilo Golez.

?It?s very suspicious?unless they don?t want [it] to be scrutinized in the meantime,? Golez, who delivered on Tuesday night a privilege speech calling for a House inquiry into the agreement, said Saturday in a phone interview.

Golez said he made the discovery on Friday morning, or three days after he was told by a colleague that the latter had accessed the text of the agreement on the DFA website, dfa.gov.ph.

?I don?t know why [DFA personnel deleted it]. They should be the one to explain it,? he said.

When the Inquirer tried to access the text on the DFA website, only a list of 14 department news releases about the agreement came up.

Golez said that ?to stop all speculations on the contents of the JMSU,? the DFA and the Philippine National Oil Co. (the main signatory) should present it to Congress and the public.

?Just show it?

Makati Rep. Teodoro Locsin Jr. agreed, saying that Malacañang should present a copy of the agreement to the Senate or else be accused of ?selling out the country.?

?Whether this is an executive agreement, or whether the President signed it in the form of a treaty, this is one document that can?t be withheld by the President from the Senate,? Locsin said on the phone.

He stressed that the Senate was the executive branch?s coequal body on foreign affairs.

?Just show it. Don?t tell me this is lost. They can?t do that again,? Locsin, a lawyer, said in reference to the purported lost contract covering the National Broadband Network deal with China?s ZTE Corp.

?If they refuse to show it for any reason, we can legitimately assume the sellout. It?s a legitimate, reasonable and conclusive assumption they sold the country,? he said.

The JMSU was forged in 2005 among the Philippines, China and Vietnam to undertake a seismic study of some areas in the disputed Spratly Islands.

Originally, the Philippines and China signed a bilateral agreement in 2004 to conduct the seismic study. With the objection of Vietnam, another claimant, the JMSU was eventually forged among the three countries.

Golez said he wanted to see a copy of the agreement to ascertain an expert?s claim that a portion of the subject 142,000-square-meter area was undisputed Philippine territory.

In an article that appeared in the Far Eastern Economic Review?s January/February 2008 issue, Barry Wain wrote that the area ?thrusts into the Spratlys and abuts Malampaya, a Philippine producing gas field.?

?About one sixth of the entire area, closest to the Philippine coastline, is outside the claims of China and Vietnam,? Wain wrote.