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                    [Title] => European Commission bullish on peace in Mindanao
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DAVAO CITY — The process may be slow but the European Commission is confident that peace would soon prevail in Mindanao.


"We always knew that the last hurdles were going to be those that would be most difficult to overcome. But you cannot give up now and shatter the dreams of those who desperately want to live in peace," said Ambassador Jan de Kok of the ongoing peace process in Mindanao.
[DatePublished] => 2006-11-19 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Nation [SectionUrl] => nation [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 317510 [Title] => EU envoys pledge continued support for ARMM projects [Summary] => COTABATO CITY — Ambassadors of the European Union (EU) member-states assured the administration of Gov. Zaldy Ampatuan of the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) of continuing socio-economic support through various humanitarian projects.

The diplomats, led by Jan de Kok, head of delegation of the European Commission, held a brief dialogue with ARMM officials here last Wednesday as part of their tour of EC-funded projects in the South.
[DatePublished] => 2006-01-20 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804871 [AuthorName] => John Unson [SectionName] => Nation [SectionUrl] => nation [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 317383 [Title] => EC okays 1-year extension of Mindanao project [Summary] => The European Commission (EC) is extending until July 2007 its P1.1-billion Upland Development Program (UDP) in Mindanao.

EC Ambassador Jan de Kok made the announcement in the recent European Ambassador’s mission to Central Mindanao where several projects of European Union-funded projects are currently being implemented.
[DatePublished] => 2006-01-19 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1704647 [AuthorName] => Rocel Felix [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 317229 [Title] => EU envoys inspect EC-funded projects in South [Summary] => The ambassadors of the European Union (EU) and the delegation head of the European Commission to the Philippines are visiting selected provinces in Central Mindanao to inspect EC-funded agricultural projects for three days starting today.

Ambassador Jan De Kok, EC delegation head, leads the EU mission that will monitor the implementation of the Support to Agrarian Reform Communities in Central Mindanao (STARCM).
[DatePublished] => 2006-01-18 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804865 [AuthorName] => Pia Lee-Brago [SectionName] => Nation [SectionUrl] => nation [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 293173 [Title] => Asia’s development financing sector gets P22.4-M grant from EU [Summary] => The European Commission (EC) has approved a 346,000-euros (P22.4 million) technical assistance grant to the 58-strong Association of Development Financing Institutions in Asia and the Pacific (ADFIAP) to help promote environment governance standards in the banking and finance sector in the region.

Ambassador Jan de Kok, head of delegation of EC to the Philippines, turned over the check to ADFIAP chairman Jesus P. Tambunting who is also chief executive officer of Planters Development Bank.
[DatePublished] => 2005-08-24 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1096364 [AuthorName] => Donnabelle L. Gatdula [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) [5] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 279825 [Title] => RP, EU sign 3.5-million euro grant agreement [Summary] => Foreign Affairs Secretary Alberto Romulo and Ambassador Johannes de Kok, head of the European Commission Delegation to the Philippines, exchanged yesterday the signed original agreement for the 3.5 million euros grant to fund the country’s Trade Related Technical Assistance program aimed at making trade an effective development and a poverty reduction tool.

The trade agreement between the Philippines and the European Community (EC) signals the implementation of the program that will enhance market access of Philippine products to the European Union (EU) market.
[DatePublished] => 2005-05-31 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804865 [AuthorName] => Pia Lee-Brago [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) [6] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 277308 [Title] => GMA: 3 years to win war vs graft [Summary] => President Arroyo gave herself yesterday three years to win the war against corruption and vowed to achieve what Hong Kong, through an independent anti-corruption commission, was able to accomplish in seven years.

In a speech during the launching of a corruption prevention project to be funded by the European Commission (EC) yesterday, the President said that with political will the country can duplicate the achievement of Hong Kong’s Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC).

Through ICAC, Hong Kong has become one of the most honest societies in Asia.

"We shall win this war against corruption, hopefully in three years, and most hopefully by the end of my term through better investigation, electronic procurement, stricter bidding, anti-corruption education and other strategies," Mrs. Arroyo said.

The EC is funding the government’s anti-corruption project through a grant of 2.9 million euros (P203 million) over a period of three years. The Office of the Ombudsman contributed 600,000 euros as the counterpart fund. [DatePublished] => 2005-05-13 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804901 [AuthorName] => Aurea Calica [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [7] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 260825 [Title] => CPP, NPA want Arroyo to ask US, Europe to take them off terror lists [Summary] => Communist guerrillas asked President Arroyo yesterday to lobby for their removal from US and European Union terrorist lists, warning that the terror label may hamper talks to end their 35-year-old insurgency.

The chief rebel negotiator in the Norwegian-brokered peace talks, Luis Jalandoni said it was "utterly baseless and malicious" — and a violation of Philippine sovereignty — to include the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) and its 8,600-member armed wing, the New People’s Army, in US and EU lists of international terrorist organizations.
[DatePublished] => 2004-08-11 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [8] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 245598 [Title] => Philippines stands to lose 12-M euros in aid [Summary] => The Philippines stands to lose around 12 million euros (P816 million) in aid for Mindanao if a peace agreement between the government and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) is not signed by 2005.

Jan De Kok, head of the European Commission Delegation to the Philippines, in a forum with the Foreign Correspondents Association of the Philippines in Makati City on Tuesday, said that their contribution to the Multi-Donor Trust Fund for conflict areas in Mindanao is dependent on the signing of a peace agreement.
[DatePublished] => 2004-04-08 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1500820 [AuthorName] => Marvin Sy [SectionName] => Nation [SectionUrl] => nation [URL] => ) [9] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 241618 [Title] => EU envoys to visit CAR, Cagayan Valley [Summary] => The ambassadors of the European Union, led by the head of the delegation of the European Commission, Ambassador Jan de Kok, are going on a mission to the Cordillera Administrative Region (CAR) and Cagayan Valley to review the accomplishments of major integrated rural development projects of the Department of Agriculture in partnership with the European Union.

The envoys will visit Hungduan, Banaue, Asipulo and Kiangan and Sta. Fe, Nueva Vizcaya starting today until March 10.
[DatePublished] => 2004-03-07 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Nation [SectionUrl] => nation [URL] => ) ) )
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                    [Title] => European Commission bullish on peace in Mindanao
                    [Summary] => 



DAVAO CITY — The process may be slow but the European Commission is confident that peace would soon prevail in Mindanao.


"We always knew that the last hurdles were going to be those that would be most difficult to overcome. But you cannot give up now and shatter the dreams of those who desperately want to live in peace," said Ambassador Jan de Kok of the ongoing peace process in Mindanao.
[DatePublished] => 2006-11-19 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Nation [SectionUrl] => nation [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 317510 [Title] => EU envoys pledge continued support for ARMM projects [Summary] => COTABATO CITY — Ambassadors of the European Union (EU) member-states assured the administration of Gov. Zaldy Ampatuan of the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) of continuing socio-economic support through various humanitarian projects.

The diplomats, led by Jan de Kok, head of delegation of the European Commission, held a brief dialogue with ARMM officials here last Wednesday as part of their tour of EC-funded projects in the South.
[DatePublished] => 2006-01-20 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804871 [AuthorName] => John Unson [SectionName] => Nation [SectionUrl] => nation [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 317383 [Title] => EC okays 1-year extension of Mindanao project [Summary] => The European Commission (EC) is extending until July 2007 its P1.1-billion Upland Development Program (UDP) in Mindanao.

EC Ambassador Jan de Kok made the announcement in the recent European Ambassador’s mission to Central Mindanao where several projects of European Union-funded projects are currently being implemented.
[DatePublished] => 2006-01-19 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1704647 [AuthorName] => Rocel Felix [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 317229 [Title] => EU envoys inspect EC-funded projects in South [Summary] => The ambassadors of the European Union (EU) and the delegation head of the European Commission to the Philippines are visiting selected provinces in Central Mindanao to inspect EC-funded agricultural projects for three days starting today.

Ambassador Jan De Kok, EC delegation head, leads the EU mission that will monitor the implementation of the Support to Agrarian Reform Communities in Central Mindanao (STARCM).
[DatePublished] => 2006-01-18 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804865 [AuthorName] => Pia Lee-Brago [SectionName] => Nation [SectionUrl] => nation [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 293173 [Title] => Asia’s development financing sector gets P22.4-M grant from EU [Summary] => The European Commission (EC) has approved a 346,000-euros (P22.4 million) technical assistance grant to the 58-strong Association of Development Financing Institutions in Asia and the Pacific (ADFIAP) to help promote environment governance standards in the banking and finance sector in the region.

Ambassador Jan de Kok, head of delegation of EC to the Philippines, turned over the check to ADFIAP chairman Jesus P. Tambunting who is also chief executive officer of Planters Development Bank.
[DatePublished] => 2005-08-24 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1096364 [AuthorName] => Donnabelle L. Gatdula [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) [5] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 279825 [Title] => RP, EU sign 3.5-million euro grant agreement [Summary] => Foreign Affairs Secretary Alberto Romulo and Ambassador Johannes de Kok, head of the European Commission Delegation to the Philippines, exchanged yesterday the signed original agreement for the 3.5 million euros grant to fund the country’s Trade Related Technical Assistance program aimed at making trade an effective development and a poverty reduction tool.

The trade agreement between the Philippines and the European Community (EC) signals the implementation of the program that will enhance market access of Philippine products to the European Union (EU) market.
[DatePublished] => 2005-05-31 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804865 [AuthorName] => Pia Lee-Brago [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) [6] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 277308 [Title] => GMA: 3 years to win war vs graft [Summary] => President Arroyo gave herself yesterday three years to win the war against corruption and vowed to achieve what Hong Kong, through an independent anti-corruption commission, was able to accomplish in seven years.

In a speech during the launching of a corruption prevention project to be funded by the European Commission (EC) yesterday, the President said that with political will the country can duplicate the achievement of Hong Kong’s Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC).

Through ICAC, Hong Kong has become one of the most honest societies in Asia.

"We shall win this war against corruption, hopefully in three years, and most hopefully by the end of my term through better investigation, electronic procurement, stricter bidding, anti-corruption education and other strategies," Mrs. Arroyo said.

The EC is funding the government’s anti-corruption project through a grant of 2.9 million euros (P203 million) over a period of three years. The Office of the Ombudsman contributed 600,000 euros as the counterpart fund. [DatePublished] => 2005-05-13 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804901 [AuthorName] => Aurea Calica [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [7] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 260825 [Title] => CPP, NPA want Arroyo to ask US, Europe to take them off terror lists [Summary] => Communist guerrillas asked President Arroyo yesterday to lobby for their removal from US and European Union terrorist lists, warning that the terror label may hamper talks to end their 35-year-old insurgency.

The chief rebel negotiator in the Norwegian-brokered peace talks, Luis Jalandoni said it was "utterly baseless and malicious" — and a violation of Philippine sovereignty — to include the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) and its 8,600-member armed wing, the New People’s Army, in US and EU lists of international terrorist organizations.
[DatePublished] => 2004-08-11 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [8] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 245598 [Title] => Philippines stands to lose 12-M euros in aid [Summary] => The Philippines stands to lose around 12 million euros (P816 million) in aid for Mindanao if a peace agreement between the government and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) is not signed by 2005.

Jan De Kok, head of the European Commission Delegation to the Philippines, in a forum with the Foreign Correspondents Association of the Philippines in Makati City on Tuesday, said that their contribution to the Multi-Donor Trust Fund for conflict areas in Mindanao is dependent on the signing of a peace agreement.
[DatePublished] => 2004-04-08 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1500820 [AuthorName] => Marvin Sy [SectionName] => Nation [SectionUrl] => nation [URL] => ) [9] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 241618 [Title] => EU envoys to visit CAR, Cagayan Valley [Summary] => The ambassadors of the European Union, led by the head of the delegation of the European Commission, Ambassador Jan de Kok, are going on a mission to the Cordillera Administrative Region (CAR) and Cagayan Valley to review the accomplishments of major integrated rural development projects of the Department of Agriculture in partnership with the European Union.

The envoys will visit Hungduan, Banaue, Asipulo and Kiangan and Sta. Fe, Nueva Vizcaya starting today until March 10.
[DatePublished] => 2004-03-07 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Nation [SectionUrl] => nation [URL] => ) ) )
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