{"id":176229,"date":"2018-08-12T02:27:56","date_gmt":"2018-08-12T06:27:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=176229"},"modified":"2018-08-12T02:27:56","modified_gmt":"2018-08-12T06:27:56","slug":"ph-notified-china-working-group-joint-exploration-cayetano","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/08\/12\/ph-notified-china-working-group-joint-exploration-cayetano\/","title":{"rendered":"PH notified China on working group for joint exploration: Cayetano"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_162604\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-162604\" style=\"width: 1350px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Alan-Cayetano.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-162604\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Alan-Cayetano.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1350\" height=\"900\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Alan-Cayetano.jpg 1350w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Alan-Cayetano-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Alan-Cayetano-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Alan-Cayetano-1024x683.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1350px) 100vw, 1350px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-162604\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">FILE: Foreign Affairs Secretary Alan Peter Cayetano (KING RODRIGUEZ\/PCOO photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA&#8211; Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) Secretary Alan Peter Cayetano on Friday said China was officially notified of the country&#8217;s creation of a technical working group (TWG) on the joint exploration in the disputed West Philippine Sea.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;ve communicated already with the Chinese ambassador that we&#8217;re forming our TWG,&#8221; he said, adding that he&#8217;s now waiting for a meeting with the Chinese side&#8217;s TWG chair.<\/p>\n<p>Cayetano said Ambassador Zhao Jianhua was &#8220;very positive&#8221; when he received the news.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He&#8217;s very happy na nagbuo na tayo ng TWG (that we already formed a TWG),\u201d Cayetano said.<\/p>\n<p>The DFA chief told reporters that the sooner an agreement is crafted, &#8220;the better for everyone.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Assuming there are commercial quantities and everyone is saying there are, isn&#8217;t it better for everyone to benefit from this now?,\u201d he said, estimating that the development itself may take three to four years if it pushes through.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It won&#8217;t be easy so what we want is to craft the agreement right away and we start right away and I want to start, hopefully, early next year. That can happen if by August, September, October we already have an agreement,&#8221; he said, referring to the joint development.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA&#8211; Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) Secretary Alan Peter Cayetano on Friday said China was officially notified of the country&#8217;s &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":162604,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-176229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-news-ph","mauthors-joyce-ann-l-rocamora","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176229","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=176229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176229\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/162604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}