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09-03-2024, 09:19 AM
The President will fly to Germany and the Czech Republic next week to promote trade and investment opportunities in the Philippines and also widen the overseas audience on the West Philippine Sea issue.
“If some of you may have noticed, in the recent incident in the West Philippine Sea, the German ambassador and the Czech ambassador issued a statement of support for the Philippines and their concern [over] what’s happening in the area,” she said at a press briefing on Friday.
Algabre said “the President will have an exchange on how [Germany and the Czech Republic] could work together [with the Philippines] in maintaining an international rules-based order.”
Malacañang has earlier drawn criticism for the President’s P1.408-billion budget for local and foreign trips this year—a 58-percent increase from his travel purse of P893.57 million in 2023.
Algabre said those travels were necessary to support the President’s development agenda and would ultimately benefit the country.
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“If some of you may have noticed, in the recent incident in the West Philippine Sea, the German ambassador and the Czech ambassador issued a statement of support for the Philippines and their concern [over] what’s happening in the area,” she said at a press briefing on Friday.
Algabre said “the President will have an exchange on how [Germany and the Czech Republic] could work together [with the Philippines] in maintaining an international rules-based order.”
Malacañang has earlier drawn criticism for the President’s P1.408-billion budget for local and foreign trips this year—a 58-percent increase from his travel purse of P893.57 million in 2023.
Algabre said those travels were necessary to support the President’s development agenda and would ultimately benefit the country.
https://globalnation.inquirer.net/227439...e=(direct)&utm_medium=gallery
