Pres. Duterte To Hold Bilateral Meeting With Indonesia Pres. Widodo, Brunei Sultan Bolkiah This Week
Philippine President Rodrigo Roa Duterte will welcome this
week Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah of Brunei and President Joko Widodo of Indonesia
for a formal bilateral meeting.
In a press briefing in MalacaƱang on Wednesday, April 19, ASEAN
2017 National Organizing Council (NOC) Director General for operations Marciano
Paynor said the meeting with the Brunei leader will be held on April 28 and on
April 29 with the Indonesian leader.
Laos has also requested to pay a courtesy call to President Duterte,
according to Paynor.
At the same time, President Widodo will join President
Duterte at the launching of the Davao-General Santos-Bitung Ro-Ro sea linkage
route on April 30 in Davao.
President Duterte will hold a gala dinner for all the
Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) leaders.
In terms of security preparations, Paynor said the
government is beefing up security elements following the recent incident in
Bohol where soldiers clashed with members of the Abu Sayyaf Group (ASG).
“So we try as much as we can to – so-called hardened tar – hardened
venues et cetera, in our security preparations. Keeping in mind also the
President’s directive that we should not hamper or hinder the normal flow of
daily activities here in the Metro Manila area,” he said.
In the same briefing, acting Foreign Affairs Spokesperson
Robespierre Bolivar said the recent visit of President Duterte to three Gulf
states ended on a high note as he brought home with him millions of dollars
worth of investments.
He said the President witnessed the signing of over $925
million worth of investment deals involving businessmen from Saudi, Bahrain and
Qatar, which are expected to create 62,000 jobs here in the country.
During the same briefing, the Palace welcomed the result of
the Deloitte’s 2017 millennial survey conducted by one of the leading
professional services firms in the country, Navarro Amper & Co., which
showed that 89 percent of Filipino millennials expect improvement in the
country’s overall economic situation in the next 12 months.
Presidential spokesperson Ernesto Abella noted that this is
significantly higher than the global average of 45 percent and regional average
of 53 percent.
The survey, where 8,000 millennials from 30 countries
participated, also showed that 84 percent of Filipino millennials have expressed
a positive outlook on the country’s social and political situation, higher than
the global average of 36 percent.
Abella also announced a recent report done by the world's
leading mid-market business survey, Grant Thornton International Business Report
(IBR), which showed that Philippine business leaders are among the most
optimistic business leaders in the world, gaining a rate of 98 percent and
placing the country in second place next to Indonesia.
This is 18 percentage points higher than the 80 percent in
the fourth quarter of 2016 and also the highest level gained by the Philippines
since 2003, Abella said.
The results of the survey reflected the sentiments of 2,400
business leaders in 36 economies.
Source: CNPH
Pres. Duterte To Hold Bilateral Meeting With Indonesia Pres. Widodo, Brunei Sultan Bolkiah This Week
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