20 June 2014 – As part of his cultural diplomacy program and on the occasion of the 153rd birth anniversary of Dr. Jose Rizal, Ambassador Bayani S. Mercado, Philippine Non-resident Ambassador to Iceland, donated on June 19 a book on the life of Dr. Jose Rizal to the Reykjavik City Library and several books on Philippine cuisine and tourism.
This is the second book donation of Ambassador Mercado to the Reykajavik City library. Last year, he donated English-Tagalog dictionaries and copies of Dr. Jose Rizal’s Noli me Tangere and El Filibusterismo. He also donated facsimile copies of the manuscripts of Noli me Tangere and El Filibusterismo to the National Library of Iceland (Landsbókasafn Íslands). END