{"id":260043,"date":"2020-07-01T05:13:11","date_gmt":"2020-07-01T09:13:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=260043"},"modified":"2020-07-01T05:13:11","modified_gmt":"2020-07-01T09:13:11","slug":"ph-japan-exchange-notes-on-covid-19-loan-assistance-package","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2020\/07\/01\/ph-japan-exchange-notes-on-covid-19-loan-assistance-package\/","title":{"rendered":"PH, Japan exchange notes on Covid-19 loan assistance package"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">PH, Japan Exchange Notes on Loan Assistance Package for PH COVID-19 Response: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/hcAKpBHpV4\">https:\/\/t.co\/hcAKpBHpV4<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Foreign Affairs Secretary Teodoro L. Locsin, Jr. and Japanese Ambassador Haneda Koji exchanged diplomatic notes in simple rites today at the Department of Foreign Affairs, (1\/6) <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/LgjdHHrHok\">pic.twitter.com\/LgjdHHrHok<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 DFA Philippines (@DFAPHL) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DFAPHL\/status\/1278202411123830787?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 1, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 Foreign Affairs Secretary Teodoro Locsin Jr. and Japanese Ambassador Haneda Koji on Wednesday exchanged diplomatic notes in simple rites at the Department of Foreign Affairs on the 50-billion Japanese yen (approximately PHP23.13 billion) loan assistance package extended by the Japanese government to support the Philippines\u2019 Covid-19 emergency response, as well as related social protection, relief, and economic recovery stimulus measures.<\/p>\n<p>The Covid-19 Crisis Response Emergency Support Loan is to be co-financed by the Asian Development Bank\u2019s Covid-19 Active Response and Expenditure Support program, as well as other development partners.<\/p>\n<p>Japan\u2019s Foreign Minister Motegi Toshimitsu had personally affirmed his country\u2019s commitment to extending this assistance to Locsin in their telephone discussion on May 22.<\/p>\n<p>The package is consistent with Japan\u2019s pledge to assist the Philippines and the larger Asean region in recovering from the impacts of Covid-19, and building public health and economic resilience against future such emergencies.<\/p>\n<p>Japan is the Philippines\u2019 top official development assistance (ODA) partner for decades, with its long history of support for Philippine development priorities spanning infrastructure, health, human resources, agriculture, education, humanitarian assistance, and disaster relief, among many others.\u00a0<em><strong>(PR)<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PH, Japan Exchange Notes on Loan Assistance Package for PH COVID-19 Response: https:\/\/t.co\/hcAKpBHpV4 Foreign Affairs Secretary Teodoro L. Locsin, Jr. &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":260044,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-260043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-news-ph","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260043","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=260043"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260043\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":260046,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260043\/revisions\/260046"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/260044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=260043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=260043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=260043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}