FSI OIC-Director General Meets Fellow Heads of Diplomatic Training Institutions in ASEAN+3
PHOTO: Foreign Service Institute's OIC-Director General Celeste Vinzon-Balatbat (seventh from left) attended the 14th Annual Meeting of Deans and Directors of Diplomatic Training Institutions of ASEAN+3 in Hanoi on 23-25 October 2019. This year’s topic was “Enhancing Cooperation on Diplomatic Training among ASEAN+3 Countries: Towards a Practical Mechanism.” DG Balatbat delivered a presentation during the session on “Initiatives to Develop Joint Diplomatic Training and Internship Programs.” (Hanoi PE photo)
Chargé d’ Affaires, a. i. Paul Vincent Uy accompanied Director General Balatbat during her meeting with Dr. Nguyen Vu Tung, President of Diplomatic Academy of Vietnam (DAV) on 22 October 2019. Their meeting followed through on commitments under the MOU on Cooperation between the Foreign Ministries of the Philippines and Vietnam, which was signed by Foreign Affairs Secretary Teodoro Locsin, Jr. and Vietnam’s Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Pham Binh Minh in Hanoi on 08 July 2019. The MOU encourages the foreign ministries of both countries to “advance cooperation between the Diplomatic Academy of Viet Nam (DAV) and the Foreign Service Institute of the Philippines (FSI) in the following areas: human resource development for the foreign services, cooperation and exchange of best practices in training activities and information sharing and joint research on issues of mutual interest.” (Hanoi PE photo)
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