{"id":52750,"date":"2015-06-23T17:55:41","date_gmt":"2015-06-23T09:55:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=52750"},"modified":"2015-06-23T17:55:41","modified_gmt":"2015-06-23T09:55:41","slug":"aquino-to-raise-sea-dispute-at-apec-meet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2015\/06\/23\/aquino-to-raise-sea-dispute-at-apec-meet\/","title":{"rendered":"Aquino to raise sea dispute at APEC meet"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_46091\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-46091\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/charles-jose-DFA.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-46091\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/charles-jose-DFA-300x202.jpg\" alt=\"DFA spokesperson Charles Jose (YouTube screenshot)\" width=\"300\" height=\"202\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/charles-jose-DFA-300x202.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/charles-jose-DFA.jpg 706w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-46091\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">DFA spokesperson Charles Jose (YouTube screenshot)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA &#8212; The Department of Foreign Affairs yesterday said that President Aquino may raise the South China Sea issue during the bilateral meetings of the\u00a0Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit in Manila.<\/p>\n<p>The economic forum which supports the sustainable economic growth and prosperity in the Asia-Pacific Region, is\u00a0scheduled in November this year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAPEC is an economic forum and this (dispute) is basically political, and that\u2019s the agreement in APEC,\u201d Foreign Affairs spokesman Charles Jose said in a press briefing.<\/p>\n<p>He added that there will be bilateral meetings where the President could raise the issues in the disputed territories in the South China Sea.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDefinitely there will be bilateral meetings on the sidelines of the APEC summit,\u201d Jose said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOf course there will be member economies requesting to have bilaterals with us and at the same time we would also be requesting to have bilateral meetings with certain member economies of APEC,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>The Philippines has raised the issue on other meetings including the\u00a0United Nations and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN).<\/p>\n<p>The DFA, however clarified that the maritime dispute will not be raised in the APEC proper.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA &#8212; The Department of Foreign Affairs yesterday said that President Aquino may raise the South China Sea issue during &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":46091,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-business","mauthors-lei-fontamillas","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52750","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=52750"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52750\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}