{"id":221220,"date":"2019-07-02T19:20:31","date_gmt":"2019-07-02T23:20:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=221220"},"modified":"2019-07-02T19:20:31","modified_gmt":"2019-07-02T23:20:31","slug":"duterte-appoints-concom-member-as-ph-envoy-to-un","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2019\/07\/02\/duterte-appoints-concom-member-as-ph-envoy-to-un\/","title":{"rendered":"Duterte appoints ConCom member as PH envoy to UN"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_221221\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-221221\" style=\"width: 1311px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Rodolfo-Robles.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-221221\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Rodolfo-Robles.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1311\" height=\"748\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Rodolfo-Robles.jpg 1311w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Rodolfo-Robles-300x171.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Rodolfo-Robles-768x438.jpg 768w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Rodolfo-Robles-1024x584.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1311px) 100vw, 1311px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-221221\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Robles\u2019 appointment paper was signed on July 1, 2019, according to a list of presidential appointees from Malaca\u00f1ang. (File <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ptvnews.ph\/duterte-has-legal-basis-to-propose-federalism-concom\/rodolfo-robles\/\">Photo<\/a>: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ptvnews.ph\/\">PTV News\/Website<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0&#8212; President Rodrigo Duterte has appointed lawyer Rodolfo Robles as the permanent representative of the Philippines to the United Nations in New York.<\/p>\n<p>Robles\u2019 appointment paper was signed on July 1, 2019, according to a list of presidential appointees from Malaca\u00f1ang.<\/p>\n<p>He will replace Foreign Affairs Secretary Teodoro Locsin Jr., who was UN envoy since September 2016.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to his appointment as UN envoy, Robles was also one of the 22 members of the Consultative Committee (ConCom), a panel of experts tasked to draft a proposed federal constitution, which is expected to distribute powers and resources among the regions.<\/p>\n<p>Also on the list of appointments is Eliseo Rio as Undersecretary of the Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT).<\/p>\n<p>Rio served as acting DICT Secretary prior to the appointment of former Senator Gregorio \u201cGringo\u201d Honasan II as the agency\u2019s ad-interim Secretary.<\/p>\n<p>Other appointees are Benedicto Malcontento as National Prosecution Service Prosecutor General and Ryan Vincent Uy as Presidential Communications Operations Office Assistant Secretary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u00a0&#8212; President Rodrigo Duterte has appointed lawyer Rodolfo Robles as the permanent representative of the Philippines to the United Nations &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":221221,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1145,16,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-221220","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\/221220","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=221220"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221220\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":221222,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221220\/revisions\/221222"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/221221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}