{"id":245280,"date":"2020-02-18T19:00:52","date_gmt":"2020-02-19T00:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=245280"},"modified":"2020-02-18T19:00:52","modified_gmt":"2020-02-19T00:00:52","slug":"russian-envoy-visits-afp-chief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2020\/02\/18\/russian-envoy-visits-afp-chief\/","title":{"rendered":"Russian envoy visits AFP chief"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p><script async=\"1\" defer=\"1\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\" src=\"https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js#xfbml=1&amp;version=v6.0\"><\/script><\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-post\" data-href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/armedforcesofthephilippines\/posts\/10157859861153766?__xts__%5B0%5D=68.ARB4GKxq2Tl7je73LhuOUBXdEkEZYf2PmGAKE12bUtq9pAmBxG-gv9PCI2RyvqTrXbjaMKOQzhel-u18Awwn4Qw0U85ZnSf876VxL-J-klBsdCtHTzrobcHavyLlEE5f6Hoac1LaEnmM_FGYxDpQ8IQhlhmUSTzuSkXucSuHNCgZreBFmM3pDzs0ZyVIgp6_zkx5M7hncdq7bQdVLYA-zMGo0BkRlOw9dUYkBD40ZPOCnCNUscOG4PAj3ez-wDOT2V-lMsb1Tk53KAz4BdUjrCaRIT1EI7sEqYpGrL-9H6qNLvlhL1PR0_lfLpVv3G9z1a2RgwvfDYtA-KHSv4sv0EbvrUPY8rcpEgeJ5WL9wxIfcx8gyO6TbTgXlyoza-Qz7VPhBtTqW00O9OEeqfsdJ6b7SCoyjz-cjJd1nWi3GMlCoDGIDW3ylCNlkXm9qj8Yjp8lkjo&amp;__tn__=-R\" data-width=\"750\">\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/armedforcesofthephilippines\/posts\/10157859861153766\" class=\"fb-xfbml-parse-ignore\">\n<p>CAMP AGUINALDO, Quezon City \u2013 The Ambassador of the Russian Federation to the Philippines, his Excellency Igor Khovaev&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Posted by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/armedforcesofthephilippines\/\">Armed Forces of the Philippines<\/a> on&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/armedforcesofthephilippines\/posts\/10157859861153766\">Monday, February 17, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0&#8212; Russian Ambassador to the Philippines Igor Khovaev on Monday met with Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) chief-of-staff Gen. Felimon Santos Jr., in what was described as &#8220;introductory courtesy call&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>This took place at AFP General Headquarters in Camp Aguinaldo, Quezon City, AFP public affairs office chief Captain Jonathan Zata said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The meeting was an introductory courtesy call requested by Ambassador Khovaev to General Santos who assumed the position on January 4,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>The AFP accorded arrival and departure honors to the Russian envoy which is customary in all diplomatic visits.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Natalia Linovitskaya, Press Secretary of the Embassy of Russia in the Philippines, said Khovaev&#8217;s visit is routine and part of efforts to intensify cooperation between the two nations.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Russia and the Philippines have their own, absolutely independent course in the bilateral cooperation in military and military-technical spheres,&#8221; she added in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>The current status and prospects of the Russian-Philippines military cooperation were among the issues discussed during the bilateral meeting of President Vladimir Putin and President Rodrigo R. Duterte in October last year.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Now we are just implementing the agreements reached last year. We are just doing our work on the way to develop bilateral cooperation between our nations, including military cooperation,&#8221; she added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CAMP AGUINALDO, Quezon City \u2013 The Ambassador of the Russian Federation to the Philippines, his Excellency Igor Khovaev&#8230; Posted by &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":245281,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-245280","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\/245280","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=245280"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245280\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":245282,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245280\/revisions\/245282"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/245281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}