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(Eagle News) — Three senators have asked President Rodrigo Duterte to reconsider his unilateral withdrawal from the Visiting Forces Agreement with the United States. In urging the President in Senate Resolution No. 312, Senate President Tito Sotto, Senate Minority Leader Franklin Drilon and Senator Panfilo Lacson acknowledged that while “by constitutional fiat and by the intrinsic nature of his office” the President, as head of state, is “the sole organ and authority in the external […]
(Eagle News) — Rapport between President Rodrigo Duterte and United States President Donald Trump was “very good” with the relationship between the two countries appearing “very warm, very friendly” and “very candid” at the same time during bilateral talks on Monday, Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque said. According to Roque, such was the “friendly” relationship between Duterte and Trump the US President at one point asked his Philippine counterpart to sing prior to the talks. “It […]
This photograph shared by Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque in his Twitter account shows President Rodrigo Duterte and US President Donald Trump holding bilateral talks as the 31st Association of Southeast Asian Nations and Other Related Meetings kicked off on Monday, Nov. 13, 2017.
The United States is not concerned about the Philippines’ deepening relationship with China and Russia, which has seen them for the first time provide significant amounts of military hardware to the Southeast Asian country. This is according to US Ambassador to the Philippines Sung Kim, who spoke to reporters on Thursday. “I’m not in any way threatened by the fact that China and Russia are also providing military assistance to the Philippines,” Kim said. He noted that […]
