PASAY CITY– U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken is scheduled to visit the Philippines from 05 to 06 August 2022. It will be his first visit to the country since assuming office in January 2021.
While in Manila, Secretary Blinken will meet Secretary for Foreign Affairs Enrique Manalo to discuss a wide range of issues, focusing on sustaining the positive trajectory of relations between the Philippines and the United States, strengthening the alliance, and broadening cooperation in the economic sphere, in the context of both countries’ efforts to address the COVID-19 pandemic, the climate crisis, and other regional and global challenges.
The visit follows that of Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman, the State Department’s second-highest official, in June 2022. It will be the first for a U.S. Secretary of State since then-Secretary Mike Pompeo’s visit in March 2019.
Source: Republic of Philippines Department Of Foreign Affairs