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(Eagle News) – United States Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said that the US is ready to defend the Philippines in case of any “armed attack” on Philippine forces in the South China Sea. Pompeo noted that the Philippines as an island nation “depends on a free and undistracted access to the seas” and that China’s “island building and military activities” threatened the country’s sovereignty. “China’s Island building and military activities in the South […]
(Eagle News)–Foreign Affairs Secretary Teodoro Locsin Jr. believes there is no need to review the Mutual Defense Treaty to ensure the United States will come to its aid should China attack the Asian country over the dispute in the South China Sea. “In vagueness lies the best deterrence,” Locsin said in a joint press conference with US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo at the Department of Foreign Affairs on Friday, March 1. “We are very […]
(Eagle News) – “The presentation of birth certificate in the application for the renewal of passport shall not be required” anymore by the Department of Foreign Affairs. This was according to Department Order No. 03-2019 on the “Documentary Requirements for the Renewal of Regular Passports” signed by Foreign Affairs Secretary Teodoro Locsin Jr., on Tuesday, January 15. Locsin said that the department “recognizes the need to enhance the convenience of and unburden the public and […]
(Eagle News) — Foreign Affairs Secretary Teddy Boy Locsin Jr. on Thursday, said President Rodrigo Duterte’s absence in some Association of Southeast Asian Nations events does not reflect badly on the Philippines, and did not represent a “missed opportunity” for the country. “Absolutely it doesn’t. I can tell you. I’ve seen different leaders stand up and leave, including the chairman, and it doesn’t reflect badly. Their ministers of foreign affairs sit down,” he said in a […]
(Eagle News) — Philippines’ Secretary of Foreign Affairs Teodoro Locsin Jr., had bilateral meetings with Netherlands’ Prime Minister Mark Rutte, and Hungarian Foreign Affairs and Trade Minister Péter Szijjártó on Friday, October 19 in Brussels, Belgium. Locsin Jr., flew to Belgium to represent President Rodrigo Duterte at the 12th Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM) Summit in Brussels, shortly after he was sworn in as DFA secretary on Wednesday, October 17, in Malacanang.
Newly-appointed Foreign Affairs Secretary and concurrent Representative to the United Nations Teodoro Locsin Jr. represented President Rodrigo Duterte at the 12th Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM) Summit and EU-ASEAN Leaders’ Meeting in Brussels, Belgium on October 18 Central European Summer Time. ASEM, a platform for dialogue and cooperation between Asia and Europe, is expected to reinforce its role as a catalyst for effective alliance of countries pursuing common goals as well as to bring out the pillars […]
(Eagle News) — Former Philippine envoy to the United Nations, Teodoro “Teddy Boy” Locsin Jr., took his oath as the new secretary of the Department of Foreign Affairs, taking over from Alan Peter Cayetano, who filed his candidacy for the 2019 mid-term elections. Locsin was sworn in as DFA secretary by President Rodrigo Duterte on Wednesday, October 17. The President chose Locsin, whom he had appointed earlier in 2016 as Philippine envoy to the […]
