{"id":179152,"date":"2018-08-29T22:50:41","date_gmt":"2018-08-30T02:50:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=179152"},"modified":"2018-08-29T22:50:41","modified_gmt":"2018-08-30T02:50:41","slug":"ph-military-observers-deployed-russia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/08\/29\/ph-military-observers-deployed-russia\/","title":{"rendered":"PH military observers to be deployed to Russia"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_153529\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-153529\" style=\"width: 415px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/0-02-08-1ae9a77d58f6ae3352aa1c77155630e1ee881a50eaa4b2ab923b7db643d638f9_full_1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-153529\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/0-02-08-1ae9a77d58f6ae3352aa1c77155630e1ee881a50eaa4b2ab923b7db643d638f9_full_1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"415\" height=\"260\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/0-02-08-1ae9a77d58f6ae3352aa1c77155630e1ee881a50eaa4b2ab923b7db643d638f9_full_1.jpg 415w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/0-02-08-1ae9a77d58f6ae3352aa1c77155630e1ee881a50eaa4b2ab923b7db643d638f9_full_1-300x188.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 415px) 100vw, 415px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-153529\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">This comes after Russian defense officials extended an invitiation to the Philippines during the visit of Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana&#8217;s to Moscow last week. (PNA File Photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0&#8212; Military observers might be deployed to Russia next year to determine what kind of training exercises Filipino troops can participate in.<\/p>\n<p>This comes after Russian defense officials extended an invitiation to the Philippines during the visit of Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana&#8217;s to Moscow last week.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<em>Inimbita tayo<\/em>\u00a0(We were invited),\u00a0<em>taon-taon meron silang ginagawang<\/em>\u00a0(they have an annual) Army training,\u00a0<em>meron silang<\/em>\u00a0(they have) Special Forces (and) Ranger training, shooting,\u00a0<em>meron pa nga<\/em>\u00a0culinary exhibition\u00a0<em>sila eh, mga pagluluto<\/em>\u00a0(they even have culinary exhibition, cooking activities),&#8221; Lorenzana said.<\/p>\n<p>In line with this invitation, the DND chief said it is likely that observers will be deployed to Russia to witness trainings and determine which are apt for Filipino troops.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<em>Siguro<\/em>\u00a0(Maybe) next year,\u00a0<em>magpadala tayo ng<\/em>\u00a0observer(s)\u00a0<em>muna (upang malaman) kung talaga bang kailangan natin yung<\/em>\u00a0training (at)\u00a0<em>marami naman tayong matututuhan sa kanila<\/em>\u00a0(we will send observers first to determine whether we need these types of training and also to learn from them),&#8221; Lorenzana added.<\/p>\n<p>The DND chief visited Moscow on the invitation of Russian Defense Minister and General of the Army Sergey Shoygu.<\/p>\n<p>Lorenzana left for Russia last Aug. 16 and arrived in the Philippines on August 24.<\/p>\n<p>The defense chief said he met with Shoygu last Aug. 21 at the Army Forum and Exhibition.<\/p>\n<p>Last Aug. 22, Lorenzana also had a short meeting ith Deputy Minister Colonel General Alexander Fomin at the Ministry of Defense building.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<em>Napag-usapan namin ang<\/em>\u00a0(We spoke about) military-to-military relations,<em>\u00a0palitan ng mga sundalo sa<\/em>\u00a0(exchange of soldiers for) military training, port visits of (Philippine) Navy ships to Vladivostok, participation in military exercises,&#8221; Lorenzana earlier said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u00a0&#8212; Military observers might be deployed to Russia next year to determine what kind of training exercises Filipino troops can &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":153529,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-179152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-news-ph","mauthors-priam-nepomuceno","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179152","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=179152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179152\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/153529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}