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MANILA
PHILIPPINE President Duterte will renew the Philippines’ pledge to uphold freedom of navigation and the exercise of self-restraint in the South China Sea when he meets with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in Tokyo next week.
The Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) said the President would be in the Japanese capital to participate in the 25th Nikkei Conference on the Future of Asia, where he would deliver a speech on Friday next week.
This will be immediately followed by a meeting with Abe, where they are to discuss the two countries’ strategic partnership in several areas and developments in the South China Sea maritime dispute and the Korean Peninsula.
Meynardo Montealegre, the assistant foreign secretary for Asian and Pacific affairs, said next week’s meeting would be Duterte’s seventh with Abe since he took office in 2016.
It would also be the President’s third visit to Japan.
MANILA
PHILIPPINE President Duterte will renew the Philippines’ pledge to uphold freedom of navigation and the exercise of self-restraint in the South China Sea when he meets with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in Tokyo next week.
The Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) said the President would be in the Japanese capital to participate in the 25th Nikkei Conference on the Future of Asia, where he would deliver a speech on Friday next week.
This will be immediately followed by a meeting with Abe, where they are to discuss the two countries’ strategic partnership in several areas and developments in the South China Sea maritime dispute and the Korean Peninsula.
Meynardo Montealegre, the assistant foreign secretary for Asian and Pacific affairs, said next week’s meeting would be Duterte’s seventh with Abe since he took office in 2016.
It would also be the President’s third visit to Japan.
