08 January 2014- Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) Secretary Albert F. del Rosario and Ms. Maria Rowena Manhit-Tomeldan, Director of Ayala Land’s Cagayan De Oro Gateway Corp. (CDOGC), signed on 07 January at the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) Main Building in Pasay City the Memorandum of Agreement on CDOGC’s hosting of DFA Cagayan De Oro at Centrio Mall.
This is the 2nd DFA consular office to be hosted by Ayala Land Corp. under the Public-Private Partnership arrangement. With the signing of this Agreement, the DFA Regional Consular Office in Limketkai Complex will be transferred to the 3rd Floor of Ayala Centrio Mall in the 2nd quarter of 2014, and will be the 11th Regional Consular Office of the DFA transferred to shopping malls.
Also present in the signing were Ayala Land’s Executive Vice President & Chief Operating Officer Bernard O. Dy, Assistant Vice President Javier D. Hernandez, Department Manager Maria Norina U. Raniel, and DFA officials including Assistant Secretary for Consular Affairs Wilfredo C. Santos, Chief Coordinator Tess De Vega, Executive Director for Consular Affairs Sulpicio M. Confiado, Senior Special Assistant Noel Servigon and Special Assistant Marciano R. De Borja. END