{"id":219869,"date":"2019-06-22T06:58:06","date_gmt":"2019-06-22T10:58:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=219869"},"modified":"2019-06-22T06:58:06","modified_gmt":"2019-06-22T10:58:06","slug":"dfa-cancels-courtesy-diplomatic-passports-of-ex-sfas-envoys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2019\/06\/22\/dfa-cancels-courtesy-diplomatic-passports-of-ex-sfas-envoys\/","title":{"rendered":"DFA cancels courtesy diplomatic passports of ex-SFAs, envoys"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_187845\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-187845\" style=\"width: 960px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Department-of-Foreign-Affairs.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-187845\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Department-of-Foreign-Affairs.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"720\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Department-of-Foreign-Affairs.jpg 960w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Department-of-Foreign-Affairs-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Department-of-Foreign-Affairs-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Department-of-Foreign-Affairs-20x15.jpg 20w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-187845\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">&#8220;The DFA Office of Consular Affairs (OCA) will be issuing an order shortly, canceling all courtesy diplomatic passports, and requiring their surrender for physical cancellation,&#8221; the DFA, through Assistant Secretary Emmanuel Fernandez, said in a statement. (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/dfaphl\/photos\/a.138804356274407\/675777269243777\/?type=3&amp;amp;theater\">File Photo<\/a>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/dfaphl\/\">Department of Foreign Affairs, Republic of the Philippines\/Facebook<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>MANILA<\/strong>&#8212; The Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) on Saturday canceled the issuance of courtesy diplomatic passports to all former Philippine ambassadors and DFA secretaries.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The DFA Office of Consular Affairs (OCA) will be issuing an order shortly, canceling all courtesy diplomatic passports, and requiring their surrender for physical cancellation,&#8221; the DFA, through Assistant Secretary Emmanuel Fernandez, said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The practice of issuing courtesy diplomatic passports to former DFA Secretaries and ambassadors shall henceforth be discontinued,&#8221; it added.<\/p>\n<p>The cancellation came after the incident involving former DFA chief Albert del Rosario, a diplomatic passport holder, who was barred from entering Hong Kong on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The former top diplomat said his detention and eventual deportation from Hong Kong was in violation of the Vienna Convention.<\/p>\n<p>The DFA, meanwhile, clarified that the courtesy diplomatic passport issued to former envoys are only to accord them port courtesy at immigration points abroad.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Since the issuance of the 1993 Department Order, diplomatic passports have been issued to former DFA secretaries as well as ambassadors as a matter of courtesy, not to confer them with diplomatic immunity under the Vienna Convention, but only to accord them the usual port courtesies at immigration points abroad,&#8221; it said.<\/p>\n<p>Del Rosario was issued a diplomatic passport in December 2016 and approved by then-Secretary Perfecto R. Yasay Jr.<\/p>\n<p>According to the DFA, the OCA-Diplomatic and Official Passport Section (DOPS) on June 18 revalidated del Rosario\u2019s diplomatic passport for a business trip to Hong Kong.<\/p>\n<p>The said diplomatic passport was supposed to be valid until Dec. 19, 2021.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA&#8212; The Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) on Saturday canceled the issuance of courtesy diplomatic passports to all former Philippine &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":187845,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1145,16,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-219869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headline","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\/219869","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=219869"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219869\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":219870,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219869\/revisions\/219870"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/187845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}