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(Eagle News)– Foreign Affairs Secretary Perfecto Yasay Jr. met with US Secretary of State John Kerry in Lima, Peru on Friday morning (November 18), assuring the latter that the Enhanced Defense Cooperation Agreement (EDCA) will push through. Yasay, however, said the focus will not be on military exercises but on the cooperation in war against illegal drugs. “We will continue with EDCA. Not so much to focus on joint military exercises but more on […]
(Eagle News)– Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) Secretary Perfecto Yasay said on Wednesday (September 14) that he is prepared to explain to United States (US) Secretary of State John Kerry the statement of President Rodrigo Duterte regarding the pullout of US Special Forces from Mindanao. “I’m not sugarcoating it at all… You cannot dissociate, for instance, the fact that when he [Duterte] said that he wants the Americans out, you dissociate it from the fact […]
MANILA, Philippines July 28 — The Philippines and the United States affirmed their long-standing relations at Wednesday’s lunch meeting between President Rodrigo Roa Duterte and US Secretary of State John Kerry at the President’s Hall of Malacanang Palace. Presidential Spokesperson Ernesto Abella in a briefing told the Malacanan Press Corps that PRRD and Kerry took note of the special relationship, with around four million Filipinos in America and at least 500,000 Americans in the Philippines. […]
by Martin ABBUGAO Jerome TAYLOR VIENTIANE, Laos (AFP) — Southeast Asian nations are in unparalleled disarray over Beijing’s sabre-rattling in the South China Sea, analysts and insiders say, with the fractures set to deepen as staunch China ally Laos hosts top regional diplomats this weekend. US Secretary of State John Kerry and Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi are among the delegates due to fly in from Sunday for two days of meetings in Vientiane, the […]
by Dave Clark VIENNA , Austria (AFP) — Senior envoys from world and regional powers are to meet once again in Vienna on Tuesday in an effort to salvage stumbling efforts to halt Syria’s bloody civil war. US Secretary of State John Kerry and Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov — diplomacy’s odd couple, at loggerheads over much else in the world — will chair the meeting. At the gathering, the 17-nation International Syria Support Group […]
WASHINGTON , United States (AFP) — US Secretary of State John Kerry is unavailable the day a Paris meeting to relaunch negotiations over the Israeli-Palestinian peace process is set to occur, the State Department said Monday. However the United States and France are looking into a possible alternative date for the ministerial discussions, which fall on the US Memorial Day holiday honoring members of the armed forces who died in combat. “We’ve made it clear […]
WASHINGTON D. C., United States (CCTV/Reuters) — Important progress has been made in talks on a UN resolution on the nuclear issue of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said on Tuesday. Wang made the statement at a joint press briefing after he met with U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry in Washington, D.C. Wang said China does not accept the DPRK’s nuclear missile program and does not recognize the […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — Russian air strikes in and around the city of Aleppo against opponents of the Syrian regime are benefitting the Islamic State group, a senior US official charged Wednesday. “What Russia’s doing is directly enabling ISIL,” Brett McGurk, President Barack Obama’s special envoy to the coalition fighting the group in Syria and Iraq, told the House Foreign Affairs Committee. US Secretary of State John Kerry has taken the lead over the past […]
At least ten Arab states are ready to back-up President Obama in his fight against ISIS. This includes Bahrain, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Oman, Qatar, United Arab Emirates, and Saudi Arabia. According to US Secretary of State John Kerry, said Arab states are ready to join a comprehensive fight against ISIS. President Obama first announced his plans against ISIS in a national address, saying that the United States will lead the fight against the […]
MANILA, Feb. 18 (PNA) — The Philippines on Tuesday welcomed the call of U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry to expedite the crafting of a legally-binding code of conduct in the disputed South China Sea, saying the accord will bring “peace, security and stability” in the region. “These comments are fully in line with the basic Philippine and Association of South East Asian Nations stance that we should move expeditiously to conclude a binding Code […]
