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                    [Title] => Guingona ‘shamed’ in Mexico function
                    [Summary] => The Philippines is set to file a diplomatic protest with Mexico for the humiliation suffered by Vice President and Foreign Affairs Secretary Teofisto   Guingona Jr. who last Thursday was mistaken for a gatecrasher and ordered to leave a luncheon attended by  diplomats and businessmen in Monterrey, Mexico.


Sources at the Department of Foreign Affairs said Guingona, who was invited to the event, was asked by protocol officers to leave the luncheon a few minutes after his arrival because his name was not on the guest list.
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Joining him in the Philippine delegation is National Economic Development Authority (NEDA) Director General Dante Canlas and Finance Undersecretary Juanita Amatong.

Guingona said he would be attending the summit segment of the United Nations (UN) conference to address essential financial issues related to global development.
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Guingona, who left the signing of the military document to Armed Forces chief Gen. Diomedio Villanueva, made clear that the holding of war games will still be on a "case to case basis" and each one will require a new and separate TOR.
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Sinabi ni Oreta na higit pa ang dapat ibigay ng pamahalaan sa OFWs dahil palaging nakahilig ang ating ekonomiya sa kanilang paghihirap sa panahon na kritikal ang kabuhayan ng bansa.
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This developed as the Philippine Overseas Employment Administration (POEA) revealed that the contracts of 59 people from Cotabato to work for bin Laden’s group of companies have been held in abeyance since August to prevent them from being possibly used for terrorist actions.
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Isabela Rep. Rodolfo Albano, the committee chairman, said Romulo, also a former opposition member of the Batasan during the Marcos regime and the first appointee to the Arroyo Cabinet, meets all the qualifications needed for the top Cabinet post.
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Guingona said Powell discussed with him the possibility of staging "war games" in the country with troops from the United States and other countries, during the Ministerial Meeting of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) in Vietnam last week.
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Guingona will pay his long-delayed "courtesy calls" to his counterparts in Malaysia, Brunei and Singapore and other leaders being a new foreign minister.

He is also set to meet with Filipino communities and check the centers for overseas Filipinos in those countries.
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VICE PRESIDENT AND FOREIGN AFFAIRS SECRETARY TEOFISTO GUINGONA JR.
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                    [Summary] => The Philippines is set to file a diplomatic protest with Mexico for the humiliation suffered by Vice President and Foreign Affairs Secretary Teofisto   Guingona Jr. who last Thursday was mistaken for a gatecrasher and ordered to leave a luncheon attended by  diplomats and businessmen in Monterrey, Mexico.


Sources at the Department of Foreign Affairs said Guingona, who was invited to the event, was asked by protocol officers to leave the luncheon a few minutes after his arrival because his name was not on the guest list.
[DatePublished] => 2002-03-24 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804865 [AuthorName] => Pia Lee-Brago [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 154176 [Title] => Guingona off to Mexico meet [Summary] => Vice President and Foreign Affairs Secretary Teofisto Guingona Jr. leaves for Monterrey, Mexico today for a top-level international event on financing for development on March 21 to 22.

Joining him in the Philippine delegation is National Economic Development Authority (NEDA) Director General Dante Canlas and Finance Undersecretary Juanita Amatong.

Guingona said he would be attending the summit segment of the United Nations (UN) conference to address essential financial issues related to global development.
[DatePublished] => 2002-03-17 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 151061 [Title] => TOR won’t apply to future war games [Summary] => Setting the record straight, Vice President and Foreign Affairs Secretary Teofisto Guingona Jr. clarified yesterday that the terms of reference (TOR) for the ongoing Balikatan war games signed between the militaries of the Philippines and the United States does not apply to future military exercises in the country.

Guingona, who left the signing of the military document to Armed Forces chief Gen. Diomedio Villanueva, made clear that the holding of war games will still be on a "case to case basis" and each one will require a new and separate TOR.
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Sinabi ni Oreta na higit pa ang dapat ibigay ng pamahalaan sa OFWs dahil palaging nakahilig ang ating ekonomiya sa kanilang paghihirap sa panahon na kritikal ang kabuhayan ng bansa.
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This developed as the Philippine Overseas Employment Administration (POEA) revealed that the contracts of 59 people from Cotabato to work for bin Laden’s group of companies have been held in abeyance since August to prevent them from being possibly used for terrorist actions.
[DatePublished] => 2001-10-25 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Nation [SectionUrl] => nation [URL] => ) [5] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 136177 [Title] => Romulo gets CA panel’s approval [Summary] => The Commission on Appointment’s committee on government corporations and other offices unanimously endorsed yesterday the ad interim appointment of former Sen. Alberto Romulo as executive secretary.

Isabela Rep. Rodolfo Albano, the committee chairman, said Romulo, also a former opposition member of the Batasan during the Marcos regime and the first appointee to the Arroyo Cabinet, meets all the qualifications needed for the top Cabinet post.
[DatePublished] => 2001-10-10 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Nation [SectionUrl] => nation [URL] => ) [6] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 128530 [Title] => ‘Multilateral war games need VFA amendment’ [Summary] => Vice President and Foreign Affairs Secretary Teofisto Guingona Jr. said the Visiting Forces Agreement (VFA) has to be amended before the Philippines could give way to US State Secretary Colin Powell’s suggestion for multilateral military exercises.

Guingona said Powell discussed with him the possibility of staging "war games" in the country with troops from the United States and other countries, during the Ministerial Meeting of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) in Vietnam last week.
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Guingona will pay his long-delayed "courtesy calls" to his counterparts in Malaysia, Brunei and Singapore and other leaders being a new foreign minister.

He is also set to meet with Filipino communities and check the centers for overseas Filipinos in those countries.
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