PH Embassy in Prague Builds Links to Strengthen PH Technology, Commerce, and Maritime Security
CDA Indhira C. Bañares is flanked by LOGeco/ ERVOeco Business Development Manager Jana Mückova and CEO Miroslav Šilhan at the company’s plant in Kladno on 02 February 2023. (Prague PE photo)
PRAGUE, 15 February 2023 – Philippine Embassy in Prague Chargé d’affaires Indhira C. Bañares visited the assembly and testing plant of LOGeco/ ERVOeco, a company that develops technology and manufactures machines that process municipal waste to new raw material sources, in Kladno on 02 February 2023.
CEO Miroslav Šilhan, Business Development Manager Jana Mücková, and Account Manager März Michäel presented to CDA Bañares the large- and medium-sized model machines that convert waste to usable and income-generating resources such as gas, oil and fertilizer.
The Philippines is interested in technologies related to environmental management and disaster resilience as it is one of the most vulnerable countries to the effects of climate change. END
Philippine Embassy in Prague Chargé d’affaires Indhira C. Bañares (5th from right), seated to the left of the host, South Korean Ambassador Kim Tae-jin, raises a point during the luncheon meeting of the ASEAN Committee in Prague, the Republic of Korea, and the Czech Ministry of Foreign Affairs on 07 February 2023. (Prague PE photo)
“We cannot talk of regional security without maritime security,” said Chargé d’affaires Indhira C. Bañares during the luncheon meeting of the Heads of Mission of the ASEAN Committee in Prague and the Embassy of the Republic of Korea with Director Marek Libricky of the Asia-Pacific Department of the Czech Ministry of Foreign Affairs at the Korean Embassy on 07 February 2023.
CDA Bañares stressed that maritime security, one of the major priorities of the Philippines in the Indo-Pacific region, is a common interest of all the countries represented in the meeting as it affects economic security. As the Czech Republic looks to the region to expand its market for goods and its geographical source for raw materials, freedom of navigation in important sea lanes has to be ensured.
The meeting discussed the synergies in political and economic security among the Czech Strategy for Cooperation with the Indo-Pacific, Korea’s Strategy for a Free, Peaceful and Prosperous Indo-Pacific Region, and the ASEAN Outlook on the Indo-Pacific. END
Left side: Malaysian CDA Farashima Aini Mohd Ali, Thai Ambassador Phasporn Sangasubana, South Korean Ambassador Kim Tae-jin, Philippine CDA Indhira C. Bañares, Philippine Attaché Glea P. Saunar, S. Korean Second Secretary Heejo Choi. Right side: Indonesian First Secretary Muhammad Tiefryan Fahlensyah (partly hidden), Vietnamese Ambassador Thai Xuan Dung, MFA Asia-Pacific Director Marek Libricky, MFA Asia-Pacific Deputy Director Patrick Rumlar, Myanmarese CDA Phone Lin Kyaing, and Thai Counsellor Wanlaya Tom. (Prague PE photo)
CDA Indhira C. Bañares with Director for Trade Facilitation and Services Tomaš Zeleny, Director for Foreign Relations Jiri Hansl, and Project Manager Ivana Javorova at the Chamber of Commerce in Prague on 08 February 2023. (Prague PE photo)
Furthermore, Chargé d’affaires Bañares met with Mr. Jiri Hansl, Director of the Foreign Department of the Czech Chamber of Commerce, to exchange views on the complementarities of Philippine and Czech economies on 08 February 2023.
Along with Trade Facilitation and Services Director Tomáš Zeleny and Project Manager Ivana Javorova, CDA Bañares and Mr. Hansl discussed opportunities in the agricultural and renewable energy sectors of the Philippines and in the medical and professional services of the Czech Republic.
The Czech Chamber of Commerce is mainly responsible for the Czech business delegation (composed of companies in the food, water, renewable energy, and waste management sectors) accompanying Chamber of Deputies Deputy Speaker Jan Skopeček on his working visit to the Philippines this week. The delegation will be in Manila, Bohol and Davao.
The visit is expected to increase bilateral trade and economic cooperation between the Philippines and the Czech Republic. END
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