{"id":101783,"date":"2017-05-10T18:48:42","date_gmt":"2017-05-10T22:48:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=101783"},"modified":"2017-05-10T18:48:42","modified_gmt":"2017-05-10T22:48:42","slug":"pres-duterte-appoints-cayetano-as-pres-duterte-appoints-cayetano-as-next-dfa-chiefnext-dfa-chief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/05\/10\/pres-duterte-appoints-cayetano-as-pres-duterte-appoints-cayetano-as-next-dfa-chiefnext-dfa-chief\/","title":{"rendered":"Pres. Duterte appoints Cayetano as Pres. Duterte appoints Cayetano as next DFA chiefnext DFA chief"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_101784\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-101784\" style=\"width: 960px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/18199452_1398465326912911_1067615877194156630_n-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-101784\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/18199452_1398465326912911_1067615877194156630_n-1.jpg\" alt=\"Cayetano\u2019s appointment was signed just as the one-year appointment ban on losing candidates expired. (Photo: Alan Peter Cayetano\/ Facebook)\" width=\"960\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/18199452_1398465326912911_1067615877194156630_n-1.jpg 960w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/18199452_1398465326912911_1067615877194156630_n-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/18199452_1398465326912911_1067615877194156630_n-1-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-101784\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cayetano\u2019s appointment was signed just as the one-year appointment ban on losing candidates expired. (Photo: <a href=\"https:\/\/web.facebook.com\/alanpetercayetano\/\">Alan Peter Cayetano\/ Facebook<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA\u2013True to his promise, President Rodrigo Duterte on Wednesday appointed Sen. Alan Peter Cayetano as the next Foreign Affairs Secretary.<\/p>\n<p>In a pre-departure press briefing before embarking to Cambodia for the World Economic Forum (WEF) on ASEAN, the President said he had just signed Cayetano\u2019s appointment paper.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDito sa DFA, I remember I signed an appointment just before I left my room, I saw the name of Senator Cayetano,\u201d Duterte said.<\/p>\n<p>Cayetano\u2019s appointment was signed just as the one-year appointment ban on losing candidates expired.<\/p>\n<p>The Senator ran and lost as Duterte\u2019s running mate in the May 2016 presidential elections.<\/p>\n<p>The President had repeatedly stated during interviews that he would offer the Foreign Affairs portfolio to Cayetano once the one-year appointment ban lapses.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to his appointment, the Senator is already slated to join Duterte in Cambodia as part of the official Philippine delegation.<\/p>\n<p>Cayetano, who chairs the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, is currently in Geneva, Switzerland for the Universal Period Review of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u2013True to his promise, President Rodrigo Duterte on Wednesday appointed Sen. Alan Peter Cayetano as the next Foreign Affairs Secretary. &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":101784,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1145,16,95],"tags":[6180,13135,15976],"class_list":["post-101783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headline","category-news","category-news-ph","tag-dilg-chief","tag-president-rodrigo-duterte","tag-senator-alan-cayetano","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101783","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101783"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101783\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/101784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}