{"id":186197,"date":"2018-10-20T23:33:18","date_gmt":"2018-10-21T03:33:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=186197"},"modified":"2018-10-20T23:35:01","modified_gmt":"2018-10-21T03:35:01","slug":"dfa-chief-cites-asia-europe-meeting-addressing-global-issues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/10\/20\/dfa-chief-cites-asia-europe-meeting-addressing-global-issues\/","title":{"rendered":"DFA chief cites Asia-Europe meeting in addressing global issues"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_186198\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-186198\" style=\"width: 675px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Dp5QLBQUcAE3g7X.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-186198\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Dp5QLBQUcAE3g7X.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"675\" height=\"1200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Dp5QLBQUcAE3g7X.jpg 675w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Dp5QLBQUcAE3g7X-169x300.jpg 169w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Dp5QLBQUcAE3g7X-576x1024.jpg 576w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 675px) 100vw, 675px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-186198\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">In a press conference as he concludes his participation at the ASEM in Brussels on Saturday, Locsin said the leaders covered a wide range of concerns in politics, economics, and culture. (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/teddyboylocsin\/status\/1053367520898486273\">Photo<\/a>: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/teddyboylocsin\/\">@teddyboylocsin\/Twitter<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0&#8212; Foreign Affairs Secretary Teodoro Locsin Jr. has cited the huge role of the Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM) in discussing pressing world issues, stressing the importance of sitting down and tackling ways in addressing global concerns.<\/p>\n<p>Locsin pointed out that regions that account for some of the best functioning economies and organized societies of the present are involved in the meeting.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There&#8217;s clearly something of value there we intend to keep growing,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>In a press conference as he concludes his participation at the ASEM in Brussels on Saturday, Locsin said the leaders covered a wide range of concerns in politics, economics, and culture.<\/p>\n<p>On the Philippine side, the foreign affairs chief said he raised the topic on migration.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The summit brings us to a tighter partnership between Asia and Europe to address challenges in global scale,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Locsin acknowledged that the Asian experience with Europe in the past is another aspect of the two regions&#8217; history.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;At this summit, no judgment were made about that experience, what there was instead was a determined and cooperative effort to discover the best possibilities of the greatest mutual benefit by moving forward,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;ASEM&#8217;s value added was to show how informal dialogue can move forward even on the most difficult issues,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>The DFA chief represented President Rodrigo at the high-level gathering in Brussels, Belgium, which ran from Oct. 18 to 20.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u00a0&#8212; Foreign Affairs Secretary Teodoro Locsin Jr. has cited the huge role of the Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM) in discussing pressing &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":186200,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-186197","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\/186197","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=186197"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186197\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/186200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}