MANILA, Nov. 6 (Xinhua) -- The Philippine military said Tuesday it has begun complying with conditions set by the United States to stop extrajudicial killings in order to obtain an additional 2 million U.S. dollars of military assistance.

    Military spokesman Bartolome Bacarro said the military has been complying with the recommendations of United Nations special rapporteur Philip Alston to stop more extrajudicial executions.

    The United States Senate has asked the Philippines to implement the recommendation by Alston as one of the conditions for granting the additional military assistance.

    The U.S. Senate also asked the Philippine government and military not to promote people in the military suspected of human rights violations and not to let military threaten legal groups in the country.

    Bacarro also said that the military was also implementing the recommendations of a joint commission created by President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo and headed by former Supreme Court justice Jose Melo, which has conducted a parallel investigation on the killings.

    Philippine Foreign Secretary Alberto Romulo said on Monday the U.S. Senate has approved a 30-million-U.S. dollar military assistance package for the Philippines, plus a 2 million U.S. dollar contingent outlay which is subject to conditions.

    The UN rapporteur Alston made a brief visit to the Philippines in February and wrote a report on extra-judicial killings in the country, in which he accused the military of being responsible for hundreds of such killings, mainly targeting left-wing activists, labor and peasant leaders.

    Alston also said in a separate report submitted to the UN General Assembly this year that extrajudicial killings in the Philippines resulted from the strategy against left-wing rebels adopted by the military.