VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Duterte revises earlier claim about foreign service degree
In a recent speech, he said he “studied” foreign service and diplomatic practice and procedure.
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Will it finally be Cayetano to DFA despite Arroyo’s objection?
It looks like Sen. Alan Peter Cayetano will finally be the foreign secretary come May when the one-year election ban for those who ran in the last elections would expire.
161 names for 31 ambassadorial positions
By ELLEN T. TORDESILLAS THE Department of Foreign Affairs is at a loss how to accommodate the 161 names they have received from Malacañang for ambassadorial positions. The list, sources say, includes names of retired military officers. There are only 60 Philippines embassies all over the world, four permanent missions and 20 consulates general.
Aquino appoints Almendras foreign secretary
By ELLEN T. TORDESILLAS WITH only three months left of his term, President Aquino appointed his cabinet secretary Jose Rene D. Almendras, 56, as foreign secretary. Press Secretary Herminio Coloma announced tonight that “President Aquino has appointed Jose Rene Almendras as ad interim Secretary of Foreign Affairs, according to Executive Secretary Paquito Ochoa Jr.
Lacierda may yet get his dream of becoming foreign secretary
By ELLEN T.TORDESILLAS THE resignation of Foreign Secretary Albert del Rosario, four months before the end of the Aquino administration, may yet pave the way for Presidential Spokesperson Edwin Lacierda to realize his dream of becoming foreign secretary. Not many know Lacierda’s desire to be head of the much-coveted cabinet
