{"id":171845,"date":"2018-07-18T05:27:48","date_gmt":"2018-07-18T09:27:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=171845"},"modified":"2018-07-18T05:28:36","modified_gmt":"2018-07-18T09:28:36","slug":"ph-opens-consulate-in-serbia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/07\/18\/ph-opens-consulate-in-serbia\/","title":{"rendered":"PH opens consulate in Serbia"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure style=\"width: 240px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/DFA.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-154522\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/DFA.jpg\" alt=\"\u201cWe join our kababayan in the United States in mourning the loss of five members of a Filipino-American family in a highway tragedy near Townsend, Delaware,\u201d DFA Secretary Alan Peter Cayetano said in a statement..(PNA photo)\" width=\"240\" height=\"180\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Philippine Consulate in Belgrade, Serbia has officially opened last month, the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) revealed Wednesday.(PNA photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Philippine Consulate in Belgrade, Serbia has officially opened last month, the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) revealed Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p><strong>MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0&#8212; The Philippine Consulate in Belgrade, Serbia has officially opened last month, the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) revealed Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Present during the opening ceremony were new Honorary Consul Dragijana Petrovic and officers from the Philippine Embassy in Budapest.<\/p>\n<p>Petrovic received her Consular Commission from Foreign Affairs Secretary Alan Peter Cayetano in July 2017 and received her exequatur from the Serbian government in March 2018.<\/p>\n<p>The grant of the exequatur officially recognized her role as the Philippine representative to Serbia, which eventually paved the way for the opening and operation of the Consulate.<\/p>\n<p>Consul Jose Garcia III, who represented Ambassador to Hungary Maria Fe Pangilinan, offered the Philippine Embassy in Hungary&#8217;s support in all the Consulate&#8217;s efforts to strengthen the Philippine-Serbian bilateral relations and assist Filipino nationals.<\/p>\n<p>Petrovic committed to help expand the two nations&#8217; bilateral relations, particularly in trade, education, and sports.<\/p>\n<p>She also assured Filipinos in Serbia of her assistance as she considers herself a part of the \u201cFilipino family.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to the DFA, Petrovic is a prominent member of the Serbian business community and has years of experience working for the Serbian government.<\/p>\n<p>As of 2018, the agency said there are at least 76 Filipinos residing and working in Serbia, majority of whom are married to Serbians and have established their families there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Philippine Consulate in Belgrade, Serbia has officially opened last month, the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) revealed Wednesday. MANILA\u00a0&#8212; &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":154522,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,95],"tags":[53616,53615],"class_list":["post-171845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-news-ph","tag-honorary-consul-dragijana-petrovic","tag-philippine-consulate-in-belgrade","mauthors-joyce-ann-l-rocamora","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171845","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=171845"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171845\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/154522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}