{"id":125207,"date":"2017-10-20T01:44:09","date_gmt":"2017-10-20T05:44:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=125207"},"modified":"2017-10-20T01:44:09","modified_gmt":"2017-10-20T05:44:09","slug":"russian-ships-visit-deliver-military-arms-in-philippines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/10\/20\/russian-ships-visit-deliver-military-arms-in-philippines\/","title":{"rendered":"Russian ships visit, deliver military arms in Philippines"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_104606\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-104606\" style=\"width: 960px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/1010150_10152539189862956_5770691743558969356_n-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-104606\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/1010150_10152539189862956_5770691743558969356_n-2.jpg\" alt=\"The Philippine Navy (PN) will be greeting its 119th founding anniversary Wednesday with a brand-new strategic sealift vessel and three multi-purpose assault craft with missile provisions. (Photo: PHILIPPINE NAVY\/ Facebook)\" width=\"960\" height=\"842\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/1010150_10152539189862956_5770691743558969356_n-2.jpg 960w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/1010150_10152539189862956_5770691743558969356_n-2-300x263.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/1010150_10152539189862956_5770691743558969356_n-2-768x674.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-104606\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Philippine Navy\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/philippinenavy\/photos\/a.424449817955.232024.190479452955\/10152539189862956\/?type=1&amp;amp;theater\">(Photo:<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/philippinenavy\">PHILIPPINE NAVY\/ Facebook<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA,\u00a0Philippines\u00a0&#8212; Three Russian navy ships arrived in the\u00a0Philippines\u00a0on Friday and two others are coming to deliver donated military equipment in the country&#8217;s third naval visit under President Rodrigo Duterte, who has vowed to diversify the country&#8217;s ties away from the United States and toward China and Russia.<\/p>\n<p>Three Russian anti-submarine ships docked in Manila in time for Russian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu&#8217;s coming visit to the country, said Rear Admiral E. Mikhailov, the task force commander.<\/p>\n<p>Two other vessels will be arriving Saturday at the port of Subic Bay northwest of Manila to unload donated military equipment, the\u00a0Philippine\u00a0Navy said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>Shoigu will be joining next week&#8217;s meeting of 10\u00a0Southeast Asian\u00a0defence ministers with counterparts from other countries including the U.S., Russia and China.<\/p>\n<p>The Navy said the donated equipment would be handed over to Duterte, who earlier said Russia would provide 5,000 assault rifles.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am assuring you that we will do our best to make this port call a significant contribution to the strengthening of friendly ties and co-operation between our two nations in the interest of security and stability in the region,\u201d Mikhailov said.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA,\u00a0Philippines\u00a0&#8212; Three Russian navy ships arrived in the\u00a0Philippines\u00a0on Friday and two others are coming to deliver donated military equipment in &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":104606,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1145,16,95],"tags":[420,11004,28601,2444,512,28602,6130,4742],"class_list":["post-125207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headline","category-news","category-news-ph","tag-china","tag-philippine-navy","tag-rear-admiral-e-mikhailov","tag-rodrigo-duterte","tag-russia","tag-sergei-shoigu","tag-subic-bay","tag-u-s","mauthors-the-associated-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125207","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=125207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125207\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/104606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}