President Duterte’s Cabinet Officials Fly To Japan For Philippine Big Infrastructure Projects
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte’s Cabinet officials
will fly to Tokyo this week to discuss with Japanese officials a prospective
list of big infrastructure projects that the Philippines could implement
possibly in tandem with Japan, the Department of Finance said Friday, March 17.
The high-level delegation led by Finance Secretary Carlos
Dominguez III will be in Japan on March 27-28.
This will be their first session with Japanese counterpart
to be held under the Joint Committee on Philippines-Japan Infrastructure and Economic
Cooperation.
The meeting follows the successful official visit of
President Duterte to Japan last year and the reciprocal visit made by Prime
Minister Shinzo Abe to the Philippines in January, DOF said.
In Prime Minister Abe’s visit to President Duterte’s home
city of Davao two months ago, he committed a total of one trillion yen in
official development assistance and investments to the Philippines within the
next five years.
A formal invitation to the Joint Committee meeting was sent
to Sec. Dominguez by Dr. Hiroto Izumi, the special advisor to Prime Minister
Abe.
Dr. Izumi has asked Sec. Dominguez to co-chair the Joint
Committee with him.
Besides Sec. Dominguez, the Philippine delegation also
includes Senator Alan Peter Cayetano; Secretaries Mark Villar of the Department
of Public Works and Highways, Benjamin Diokno of the Department of Budget and
Management, Alfonso Cusi of the Department of Energy and Ernesto Pernia of the
National Economic and Development Authority.
Joining this group are Vivencio Dizon, President and CEO of
the Bases Conversion and Development Authority; Undersecretary Cesar Chavez of
the Department of Transportation; and Charge d’Affaires Eduardo Martin Meñez of
the Philippine Embassy in Tokyo.
The Dominguez-led delegation is expected to present the
Philippines’ medium term development plan and update Japanese officials on the
country’s macroeconomic situation during the Joint Committee meeting, DOF said.
This team is expected to discuss a potential list of
Philippine infrastructure projects for possible Japanese financing with
high-ranking officials of the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) and
the Japan Ministries of Foreign Affairs; Health, Labor and Welfare; Finance;
Economy, Trade and Industry; Internal Affairs and Communications; Agriculture,
Forestry and Fisheries; and Land Infrastructure and Transport.
Set for discussion during the meeting are possible
cooperation agreements between the two countries in the areas of
infrastructure; energy; support for Mindanao; public safety, which includes
counterterrorism and the anti-illegal drugs campaign; environment and
agriculture; disaster prevention; information technology; and human resource
development.
Source: Sunstar PH
President Duterte’s Cabinet Officials Fly To Japan For Philippine Big Infrastructure Projects
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