{"id":237655,"date":"2019-11-17T22:44:37","date_gmt":"2019-11-18T03:44:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=237655"},"modified":"2019-11-17T22:44:37","modified_gmt":"2019-11-18T03:44:37","slug":"lorenzana-us-counterpart-to-meet-on-various-issues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2019\/11\/17\/lorenzana-us-counterpart-to-meet-on-various-issues\/","title":{"rendered":"Lorenzana, US counterpart to meet on various issues"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_222203\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-222203\" style=\"width: 3600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/snd-6-10-19-presscon-a.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-222203\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/snd-6-10-19-presscon-a.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"3600\" height=\"2400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/snd-6-10-19-presscon-a.jpg 3600w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/snd-6-10-19-presscon-a-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 3600px) 100vw, 3600px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-222203\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">FILE: Department of National Defense (DND) Secretary Delfin Lorenzana at Camp Aguinaldo in Quezon City on Monday (June 10, 2019). (PNA photo by Joey O. Razon)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0&#8212; Department of National Defense (DND) Secretary Delfin Lorenzana and his American counterpart, Mark Esper, are scheduled to meet in Camp Aguinaldo, Quezon City to discuss issues of mutual concern Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>DND spokesperson Arsenio Andolong said the matter on the West Philippine Sea is part of the agenda of the meeting between the two defense chiefs.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Most likely<em>\u00a0kasi kung<\/em>\u00a0(because as for) security issues, (that is) always part of the agenda,&#8221; he added in an interview with reporters Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Other topics that will be discussed are terrorism and US-Philippine defense relations, Andolong said.<\/p>\n<p>The meeting between Lorenzana and Esper is expected to take place around 1 p.m. on Tuesday at the DND main building.<\/p>\n<p>Esper left the US last week to attend the 51st US-Republic of Korea Security Consultative Meeting before heading towards Thailand to participate in the ASEAN-Defense Minister Meeting Plus.<\/p>\n<p>After his visit to the Philippines, Esper will proceed to Vietnam to discuss the regional security environment and how to boost further the defense relations between the two countries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u00a0&#8212; Department of National Defense (DND) Secretary Delfin Lorenzana and his American counterpart, Mark Esper, are scheduled to meet in &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":222203,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-237655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-news-ph","mauthors-priam-nepomuceno","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237655","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=237655"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237655\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":237656,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237655\/revisions\/237656"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/222203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}