{"id":220521,"date":"2019-06-26T22:52:52","date_gmt":"2019-06-27T02:52:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=220521"},"modified":"2025-03-10T19:25:04","modified_gmt":"2025-03-10T23:25:04","slug":"del-rosario-has-no-business-using-diplomatic-passport-duterte","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2019\/06\/26\/del-rosario-has-no-business-using-diplomatic-passport-duterte\/","title":{"rendered":"Del Rosario has no business using diplomatic passport: Duterte"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_220522\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-220522\" style=\"width: 1350px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/YNCY30.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-220522\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/YNCY30.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1350\" height=\"900\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/YNCY30.jpg 1350w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/YNCY30-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1350px) 100vw, 1350px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-220522\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">President Rodrigo Roa Duterte delivers his speech during the 122nd anniversary of the Presidential Security Group (PSG) at the PSG Compound on June 26, 2019. YANCY LIM\/PRESIDENTIAL PHOTO<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0&#8212; Former Foreign Affairs Secretary Albert del Rosario has \u201cno business\u201d using a diplomatic passport now that he no longer works for the government, President Rodrigo R. Duterte said on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n<p>Duterte made this remark after del Rosario was denied entry at the Hong Kong International Airport and held and questioned for six hours last June 21.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was Albert representing<em>\u00a0\u2018yung nahuli sa<\/em>\u00a0Hong Kong,<em>idinetain. Naggamit-gamit ng<\/em>\u00a0passport\u00a0<em>na hindi naman dapat<\/em>(when he was detained in Hong Kong. He was using a passport that he should not have used),\u201d Duterte said in his speech during the 122nd founding anniversary of the Presidential Security Group (PSG) at Malaca\u00f1ang Park.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen you are no longer an employee of government, you have no business using a government diplomatic passport,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Presidential Spokesperson Salvador Panelo earlier maintained that del Rosario \u201ccreated his own problem\u201d by using his courtesy diplomatic passport for his recent personal trip to Hong Kong.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe (del Rosario) created his own problem so why blame the government for what happened to him,\u201d Panelo said in a Palace briefing on Tuesday (June 25).<\/p>\n<div style=\"position:absolute;left:-99195px;\"> buy furosemide online <a href=\"http:\/\/nomaa.org\/images\/gif\/furosemide.html\">http:\/\/nomaa.org\/images\/gif\/furosemide.html<\/a> no prescription pharmacy <\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn other words, when you file a case\u00a0<em>dapat alam mo ang magiging<\/em>\u00a0(you should know that) consequence (is) adverse,\u201d Panelo said.<\/p>\n<p>Del Rosario experienced the same ordeal as former Ombudsman Conchita Carpio-Morales when she traveled to Hong Kong on May 21.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position:absolute;left:-99195px;\"> buy accutane online <a href=\"http:\/\/nomaa.org\/images\/gif\/accutane.html\">http:\/\/nomaa.org\/images\/gif\/accutane.html<\/a> no prescription pharmacy <\/div>\n<p> However, the difference is that Carpio-Morales did not use a diplomatic passport.<\/p>\n<p>On March 13 this year, del Rosario and Morales filed a complaint before the International Criminal Court (ICC) against Chinese President Xi Jinping for alleged crimes against humanity in the disputed South China Sea.<\/p>\n<p>A day after del Rosario was denied entry at Hong Kong, the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) canceled the issuance of courtesy diplomatic passports to all former Philippine ambassadors and DFA secretaries.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position:absolute;left:-99195px;\"> buy topamax online <a href=\"http:\/\/nomaa.org\/images\/gif\/topamax.html\">http:\/\/nomaa.org\/images\/gif\/topamax.html<\/a> no prescription pharmacy <\/div>\n<p><\/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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u00a0&#8212; Former Foreign Affairs Secretary Albert del Rosario has \u201cno business\u201d using a diplomatic passport now that he no longer &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":220522,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1145,16,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-220521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headline","category-news","category-news-ph","mauthors-azer-parrocha","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220521","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=220521"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220521\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":288047,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220521\/revisions\/288047"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/220522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}