{"id":17447,"date":"2014-06-28T17:49:49","date_gmt":"2014-06-28T09:49:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=17447"},"modified":"2014-06-28T17:49:49","modified_gmt":"2014-06-28T09:49:49","slug":"palace-welcomes-canadas-move-designating-phl-on-list-of-focus-devt-countries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/06\/28\/palace-welcomes-canadas-move-designating-phl-on-list-of-focus-devt-countries\/","title":{"rendered":"Palace welcomes Canada\u2019s move designating PHL on list of focus dev\u2019t countries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"color: #000000;\">\n<figure id=\"attachment_11519\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11519\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Malacanang_palace_view.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11519\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Malacanang_palace_view-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"Wikipedia photo\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Malacanang_palace_view-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Malacanang_palace_view.jpg 510w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-11519\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wikipedia photo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;\">MANILA &#8212; Malacanang on Saturday welcomed Canada\u2019s move of designating the Philippines on the list of development countries of focus.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;\">This move will allow the Philippines and other countries to be priority beneficiaries of Canada&#8217;s international development assistance program.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;\">Among other countries included on the list for this year include Burma, Mongolia, Burkina Faso, Benin, the Democratic Republic of Congo, and Jordan.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;\">Presidential spokesperson Edwin Lacierda in an interview over state-run dzRB radio welcomed the good news, saying that the Philippines has always had a good relationship with Canada.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;\">He said that many other international partners have also pledged assistance to the Philippines since they could easily see how the government puts the allocation to good use.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;\">\u201cYou can see how far the assistance has been allocated,\u201d Lacierda said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;\">When asked if President Benigno S. Aquino III had any plans of visiting Canada anytime in the future, Lacierda said that he would still have to ask the President himself.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;\">However, he did recall that Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper has previously visited the Philippines in 2012.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;\">During Harper\u2019s visit, he pledged to increase Canadian investment in the country, cooperate on defense and trade, and commit to people-to-people exchanges between both countries.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA &#8212; Malacanang on Saturday welcomed Canada\u2019s move of designating the Philippines on the list of development countries of focus. &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":11519,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[95],"tags":[6126,6127,4154],"class_list":["post-17447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news-ph","tag-canadas-move","tag-devt-countries","tag-palace","mauthors-azer-n-parrocha","mauthors-philippines-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17447","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\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17447"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17447\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}