{"id":257823,"date":"2020-06-12T00:53:50","date_gmt":"2020-06-12T04:53:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=257823"},"modified":"2020-06-12T00:53:50","modified_gmt":"2020-06-12T04:53:50","slug":"ex-dfa-chief-yasay-73-dies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2020\/06\/12\/ex-dfa-chief-yasay-73-dies\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-DFA chief Yasay, 73, dies"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_91073\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-91073\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/112016_REY2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-91073 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/112016_REY2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/112016_REY2.jpg 640w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/112016_REY2-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-91073\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Yasay, 73, died of pneumonia due to a complication from cancer recurrence, his wife, Cecille, said. (File Photo: REY BANIQUET\/Presidential Photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 Former Foreign Affairs Secretary Perfecto Yasay Jr. passed away on Friday morning, his wife announced in a Facebook post.<\/p>\n<p>Yasay, 73, died of pneumonia due to a complication from cancer recurrence, his wife, Cecille, said.<\/p>\n<p>The Facebook post of Yasay\u2019s wife confirming his passing was screen-grabbed and posted by the United Church of Christ in the Philippines (UCCP).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy husband, my partner, my best friend left us today at 7:26 a.m. due to pneumonia caused by the recurrence of his cancer, not [coronavirus disease 2019]. Jun Yasay, you are loved. We will miss you,\u201d Cecille said.<\/p>\n<p>Yasay has battled two cancers in life.<\/p>\n<p>The UCCP also mourned the death of Yasay.<\/p>\n<p>Yasay is the current chairperson of the Board of Trustees of the Philippine Christian University (PCU) which us an affiliate of the UCCP.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe deeply regret the news of the passing of&#8230; the current Chairperson of PCU Board of Trustees and former DFA Secretary, Atty. Perfecto Yasay, Jr.,\u201d it said. \u201cPrayer for [his] eternal repose in the bosom of God. Rest in peace our dearest [brother] in Christ. Condolences to [his] bereaved family.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In a separate statement, Malaca\u00f1ang also extended its sympathies and condolences to Yasay\u2019s family.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs we pay tribute and honor Secretary Yasay, we offer our sincerest prayers to the Almighty to grant him eternal repose,\u201d Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque said.<\/p>\n<p>Yasay is the first Foreign Affairs Secretary on an ad interim basis under the watch of President Rodrigo Duterte.<\/p>\n<p>His ad interim appointment, however, was rejected by the Commission on Appointments in March 2017 due to questions about his citizenship.<\/p>\n<p>Yasay also served as the chairperson of the Securities and Exchange Commission from 1995 to 2000.<\/p>\n<p>He also unsuccessfully ran for a seat in the Senate in 2001 and 2004, and for Vice President in 2010.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u00a0\u2013 Former Foreign Affairs Secretary Perfecto Yasay Jr. passed away on Friday morning, his wife announced in a Facebook post. &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":91073,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-257823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-news-ph","mauthors-ruth-abbey-gita-carlos","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257823","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=257823"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257823\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":257824,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257823\/revisions\/257824"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/91073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=257823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=257823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=257823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}