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(Eagle News)–President Rodrigo Duterte will visit Russia next month. Foreign Affairs Secretary Teddy Locsin Jr. made the revelation in his introductory remarks before the Senate finance committee hearing the proposed Department of Foreign Affairs budget on Thursday, Sept. 12. According to Locsin, the visit was to “make up for his first state visit that was aborted within half a day of arriving by the fall of Marawi to jihadis including foreign fighters.” Maute terrorists who […]
(Eagle News)–Foreign Affairs Secretary Teddy Locsin Jr. has ordered the filing of a diplomatic protest against China over the unauthorized passage of Chinese warships through Sibutu Strait. Locsin gave the order to the Department of Foreign Affairs Office of Asia and Pacific Affairs in a Tweet. “Fire diplomatic protest over Chinese warship; drop the diplomatic crap; say it is ours period; they’re trespassing,” Locsin said. According to Locsin, “if we did it already, fire another.” […]
(Eagle News)–Foreign Affairs Secretary Teddy Locsin Jr. on Tuesday, Aug. 13, said the Philippine government should immediately bring to justice those behind the death of a Chinese national in Las Piñas City. In making the remark, Locsin noted that the Chinese could retaliate following the death of Yang Kang, 27. The Chinese national died after jumping, while handcuffed, from the sixth floor of his office building in Pamplona. “We go down this road of letting […]
(Eagle News)–President Rodrigo Duterte has accepted China’s offer for a Philippines -China joint investigation into the Recto Bank incident, the Palace said on Saturday, June 21. Presidential Spokesperson Salvador Panelo said the President “wants the creation of a joint investigating committee that shall be composed of three groups of highly qualified and competent individuals, with Philippines and China having one representative each, and a third member coming from a neutral party.” Panelo said having separate […]
(Eagle News)–Iran’s Deputy Foreign Minister Morteza Sarmadi has gone on a visit to the Philippines, and paid a courtesy call on Foreign Affairs Secretary Teodoro Locsin Jr. on Thursday, Feb. 21. In a brief statement, the Department of Foreign Affairs said the Iranian official met with Locsin at the DFA main office. The DFA said the two discussed the “status of bilateral relations between Manila and Tehran and regional developments.” Diplomatic relations between the two […]
(Eagle News) — The Commission on Appointments (CA) on Tuesday (December 13) approved the appointment of former Makati congressman Teodoro “Teddyboy” Locsin Jr., as the Philippines’ Permanent Representative to the United Nations (UN). The CA also approved the interim appointments of three Cabinet secretaries, and 21 foreign service officers. The powerful CA also approved the appointment of Secretaries Ismael Sueno for Interior and Local Government, Arturo Tugade for Transportation, and Mark Villar for Public Works […]
