{"id":207751,"date":"2019-03-31T00:34:57","date_gmt":"2019-03-31T04:34:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=207751"},"modified":"2019-03-31T00:34:57","modified_gmt":"2019-03-31T04:34:57","slug":"ph-backs-un-resolution-vs-financing-terrorism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2019\/03\/31\/ph-backs-un-resolution-vs-financing-terrorism\/","title":{"rendered":"PH backs UN resolution vs. financing terrorism"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_202804\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-202804\" style=\"width: 1200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Teddy-Boy-Locsin-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-202804\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Teddy-Boy-Locsin-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"1200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Teddy-Boy-Locsin-1.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Teddy-Boy-Locsin-1-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Teddy-Boy-Locsin-1-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Teddy-Boy-Locsin-1-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Teddy-Boy-Locsin-1-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Teddy-Boy-Locsin-1-20x20.jpg 20w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-202804\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Foreign Affairs Secretary Teodoro Locsin Jr. himself stressed that \u201cmoney is the lifeblood of terrorism&#8221; as he highlighted the country&#8217;s initiatives to combat the illicit financing of terrorism before the UNSC in New York City. (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/teddyboylocsin\/status\/1052986628275298304\">File photo<\/a>: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/teddyboylocsin\/\">Teddy Locsin Jr.\/Twitter<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>MANILA\u00a0<\/strong>&#8212; The Philippine government, through the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA), on Saturday announced its co-sponsorship of a United Nations Security Council (UNSC) resolution combatting the financing of terrorism.<\/p>\n<p>Foreign Affairs Secretary Teodoro Locsin Jr. himself stressed that \u201cmoney is the lifeblood of terrorism&#8221; as he highlighted the country&#8217;s initiatives to combat the illicit financing of terrorism before the UNSC in New York City.<\/p>\n<p>By law, he said the Philippines defined \u201cterrorist financing as a separate crime\u201d and is working on amendments to the Human Security Act to address the exploitation of cyberspace for terrorism.<\/p>\n<p>According to the DFA, Manila has also adopted the 2018-2022 National Anti-Money Laundering and Countering the Financing of Terrorism Strategy.<\/p>\n<p>During his remarks before the UNSC, Locsin cited the need to monitor funds going to non-profit organizations and the relationship between terrorism and the illegal drug trade.<\/p>\n<p>Last Wednesday, Locsin supported calls for the European Union to &#8220;immediately cease&#8221; the flow of funds to local groups in the Philippines fronting for the Communist Party of the Philippines-New People&#8217;s Army, which is listed as a terror organization by the bloc itself.<\/p>\n<p>Locsin also pointed out that while remittance agencies have been used as a channel for terrorist financing, the challenge is to balance the requirements of counter-terrorism and the needs of overseas Filipino workers, as remittances account for 9.8 percent of the country&#8217;s gross domestic product.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u00a0&#8212; The Philippine government, through the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA), on Saturday announced its co-sponsorship of a United Nations &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":202804,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-207751","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\/207751","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=207751"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207751\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":207753,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207751\/revisions\/207753"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/202804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}