{"id":161953,"date":"2018-04-28T06:48:20","date_gmt":"2018-04-28T10:48:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=161953"},"modified":"2018-04-28T06:48:20","modified_gmt":"2018-04-28T10:48:20","slug":"duterte-to-announce-next-step-on-ph-kuwait-row-sunday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/04\/28\/duterte-to-announce-next-step-on-ph-kuwait-row-sunday\/","title":{"rendered":"Duterte to announce next step on PH-Kuwait row Sunday"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_151510\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-151510\" style=\"width: 415px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/JAL01.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-151510\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/JAL01.jpg\" alt=\"Roque, in a press briefing in Tabuk, Kalinga, said that this figure is an increase of 0.6 percentage point from 2016.\" width=\"415\" height=\"260\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/JAL01.jpg 415w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/JAL01-300x188.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 415px) 100vw, 415px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-151510\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Roque said Duterte&#8217;s announcement was not recommended by any of his advisers or Cabinet officials (PNA Photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0&#8212; President Rodrigo R. Duterte is expected to make a \u201cpersonally crafted\u201d announcement on the country\u2019s next step to resolve its conflict with Kuwait on Sunday, his spokesperson has said.<\/p>\n<p>Presidential spokesperson Harry Roque, speaking at the sidelines of the 32nd ASEAN Leaders\u2019 Meeting in Singapore on Friday, said Duterte will announce the Philippine position during his arrival statement in Davao on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe wants to announce it in Philippine soil,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Roque said Duterte\u2019s announcement was not recommended by any of his advisers or Cabinet officials since it was one that he \u201cpersonally crafted\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this week, Roque said the Philippines and Kuwait may possibly sign the memorandum of understanding (MOU) on the protection of overseas Filipino workers in the Gulf state after this year\u2019s Ramadan in June.<\/p>\n<p>However, Roque said that at present, he could only \u201csurmise\u201d the MOU\u2019s fate.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI do not know, everything is up in the air now with recent developments Kuwaiti ambassador (Musaed Saleh Ahmad Althwaikh) being recalled and (the) Philippine ambassador (Renato Villa) being declared persona non-grata,&#8221; Roque said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I have to say that the President, being a lawyer with 30 years of executive experience, certainly had a very different reaction to the controversy. It was a course of action that was not specifically recommended by anyone,\u201d Roque said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe made up his mind and I appreciate it. It shows really his experience in governance and there\u2019s wisdom,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Kuwaiti government was angered by action taken by staff of the Philippine embassy for conducting rescue operations early this week without coordinating with its government.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u00a0&#8212; President Rodrigo R. Duterte is expected to make a \u201cpersonally crafted\u201d announcement on the country\u2019s next step to resolve &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":151510,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,95],"tags":[15359,4326,16251],"class_list":["post-161953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-news-ph","tag-harry-roque","tag-kuwait","tag-rodrigo-r-duterte","mauthors-azer-parrocha","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161953","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=161953"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161953\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/151510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=161953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=161953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}