DFA Undersecretary For Policy Discusses ASEAN with Swiss Think Tanks, Portuguese Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Foreign Affairs Undersecretary for Policy Enrique A. Manalo (leftmost) conducts briefing and roundtable discussion on the Philippines’ role as country coordinator of ASEAN-China dialogue relations with Swiss think tanks on 02 July 2019. (DFA photo)

12 July 2019 – Foreign Affairs Undersecretary for Policy Enrique A. Manalo conducted a roundtable discussion with Swiss think tanks on 02 July 2019 in Berne and a lecture at the Portuguese Ministry of Foreign Affairs on 04 July 2019 in Lisbon on the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN).

Undersecretary Manalo briefed the participants in Berne and in Lisbon on the latest developments in ASEAN, including the outcomes of the recent ASEAN Leaders’ Summit in Bangkok in June 2019, ASEAN-China dialogue relations, the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP), and the ASEAN Outlook of the Indo-Pacific.

In Berne, the roundtable discussion organized by the Philippine Embassy in Berne was attended by Swiss think tanks represented by former Swiss Ambassador Daniel Woker,  Fletcher School's Peter Martin Freudenstein from and Swiss Forum on Foreign Policy's Markus Hermann.

In Lisbon, Undersecretary Manalo’s lecture was organized by the Philippine Embassy in Lisbon and the Portuguese Ministry of Foreign Affairs’ Instituto Diplomatico (Diplomatic Institute of Portugal) under the ambit of the Philippines-Portugal Memorandum of Understanding on Cooperation in Diplomatic Training and Exchange of Information and Documentation. END

Undersecretary Manalo (leftmost) delivers a lecture on ASEAN and the Philippines’ priorities in ASEAN on 04 July 2019 at the Biblioteca da Rainha, Portuguese Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The lecture was organized by the Philippine Embassy in Lisbon and Portuguese Ministry of Foreign Affairs' Instituto Diplomatico. (DFA photo)