WASHINGTON D.C. – Philippine Ambassador to the United States Jose Manuel G. Romualdez convened the bi-annual Planning Conference for Philippine Foreign Service Posts in the United States in Washington, D.C. on November 8-9, 2022.
The conference discussed the recent positive developments in Philippines-US bilateral security and economic relations and came up with strategies and programs to sustain and reinforce the said developments. It also crafted strategies to further improve the delivery of consular and ATN services throughout the United States, as well as to promote Filipino culture, cuisine, and people-to-people ties, among other things.
Ambassador Romualdez emphasized that economic security is at the top of the list of the President Ferdinand R. Marcos’s priorities, especially as the Philippine economy recovers from the COVID-19 pandemic. He recalled the President’s successful economic engagements in New York last September, including the meeting with US President Joseph R. Biden, and welcomed the plans jointly prepared by the Consuls General, the US FSPs economic officers and representatives from partner agencies to follow up the leads and interests that were generated from the said engagements.
The conference was attended by DFA Assistant Secretary for American Affairs Jose Victor Chan-Gonzaga, Consuls General and other officers from all Foreign Service Posts in the United States, and US-based representatives from the Department of Trade and Industry, Department of Agriculture, Department of Tourism, Department of National Defense, Department of Labor and the Philippine National Police.
Source: Republic of Philippines Department Of Foreign Affairs