{"id":228913,"date":"2019-08-31T04:50:52","date_gmt":"2019-08-31T08:50:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=228913"},"modified":"2019-08-31T04:50:52","modified_gmt":"2019-08-31T08:50:52","slug":"progress-in-ph-bahrain-cooperation-hailed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2019\/08\/31\/progress-in-ph-bahrain-cooperation-hailed\/","title":{"rendered":"Progress in PH-Bahrain cooperation hailed"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_228914\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-228914\" style=\"width: 1920px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/international-2690861_1920.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-228914\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/international-2690861_1920.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/international-2690861_1920.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/international-2690861_1920-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/international-2690861_1920-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/international-2690861_1920-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-228914\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Bahraini official said this during the visit of President Rodrigo Duterte&#8217;s special envoy to the Gulf Cooperation Council Countries Amable Aguiluz last August 28 in Bahrain. (Pixabay Photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>MANILA<\/strong>&#8212; Bahrain Prime Minister Prince Khalifa bin Salman Al Khalifa has sought to further enhance the Philippine-Bahrain ties as he hailed the growing engagement between the two nations&#8217; governments.<\/p>\n<p>The Bahraini official said this during the visit of President Rodrigo Duterte&#8217;s special envoy to the Gulf Cooperation Council Countries Amable Aguiluz last August 28 in Bahrain.<\/p>\n<p>State-run Bahrain News Agency said the prime minister &#8220;expressed satisfaction with the progress witnessed by the Bahraini-Philippines cooperation in various fields, thus embodying the two countries\u2019 distinguished deep-rooted relations and mutual understanding on a wide range of regional and global issues.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Bahrain leader also lauded the &#8220;contributions of the Filipino expatriate community&#8221; to the kingdom\u2019s development, which counts to around 60,000 as of 2018.<\/p>\n<p>The Bahrain government has facilitated the &#8220;regularization&#8221; of undocumented Filipino workers in the Arab state last year.<\/p>\n<p>During the meeting with Aguiliz, the prime minister also conveyed his greetings to President Duterte and his &#8220;wishes of further progress and prosperity to the Philippines and its people&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Last July, Bahrain was among the states that voted against an Iceland-initiated resolution at the United Nations which sought for a comprehensive written report on the human rights situation in the Philippines.<\/p>\n<p>In his letter to Foreign Affairs Undersecretary Sarah Lou Arriola dated July 15, the prime minister underscored the Gulf state&#8217;s support to the Philippines &#8220;as a valued partner in achieving shared political and economic objectives.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA&#8212; Bahrain Prime Minister Prince Khalifa bin Salman Al Khalifa has sought to further enhance the Philippine-Bahrain ties as he &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":228914,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-228913","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\/228913","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=228913"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228913\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":228915,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228913\/revisions\/228915"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/228914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}