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(Eagle News) – President Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr., has chosen seasoned career diplomat Enrique Manalo as secretary of the Department of Foreign Affairs. Manalo, 69, was appointed on Friday, July 1, replacing Teodoro Locsin Jr. He had previously served as Acting Foreign Affairs Secretary from March 9 to May 17, 2017 during the administration of President Rodrigo Duterte. This was when the Commission on Appointment rejected the ad interim appointment of Perfecto Yasay Jr. […]
(Eagle News) — China is now pushing for an ASEAN-China framework on the Code of Conduct in the South China Sea, which will hopefully prevent the escalating of tensions in the region and promote the peaceful settlement of maritime disputes there. This was bared by Acting Foreign Affairs Secretary Enrique Manalo in a press conference in Thailand where he also revealed that China and Philippines have already established a “bilateral mechanism” where both countries […]
(Eagle News) — The Chinese vice prime minister is scheduled to meet President Rodrigo Duterte in Davao on Friday, March 17. This is according to Acting Foreign Affairs Secretary Enrique Manalo, who on Thursday, March 16, held his first-ever press conference since assuming the post. The acting secretary did not specify a name, but the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the People’s Republic of China website said Vice Premier Wang Yang of the State Council would be on official […]
QUEZON CITY, Philippines (Eagle News) — The Commission on Appointments (CA) last Wednesday, March 8, rejected the appointment of Foreign Affairs Secretary Perfecto Yasay Jr. for failing to disclose the status of his citizenship before the committee. During his confirmation hearing last February 22, Yasay said he never legally acquired an American citizenship because when it was issued to him on November 1986, the foreign citizenship was “null and void.” “I was disqualified from acquiring US […]
(Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte has already apppointed a new acting Secretary of the Department of Foreign Affairs, after the Commission on Appointment (CA) rejected the appointment of Perfecto Yasay Jr., as DFA secretary. Yasay’s replacement is Foreign Undersecretary Enrique Manalo, a career diplomat who rose from the ranks at the DFA. “Undersecretary Enrique Manalo has been designated and appointed as Acting Secretary of the Department of Foreign Affairs by President Rodrigo Duterte,” Presidential […]
