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Marcos Jr names career diplomat Manalo as foreign minister
Manalo had served as the country's permanent representative to the United Nations, undersecretary for policy of the Department of Foreign Affairs and acting foreign secretary.
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Spanish Ambassador to Thailand Ignacio Sagaz, a member of the European Union delegation (right) talks with then Philippines Undersecretary for Foreign Affairs Enrique Manalo (L) during the Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) foreign ministers and European Union ministerial meeting in the Thai resort of Phuket on July 22, 2009. Following meetings ahead of Asia's biggest security forum US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said on July 22 that North Korea must agree to (AFP/POOL/BARBARA WALTON)
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hilippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. has appointed Enrique Manalo, a career diplomat, as foreign secretary, the president's press secretary said Friday.
Manalo had served as the country's permanent representative to the United Nations, undersecretary for policy of the Department of Foreign Affairs and acting foreign secretary.
The new top diplomat, who replaced Teodoro Locsin, has experience in handling diplomatic issues including a territorial dispute in the South China Sea, local media reports said. The Philippines and China have competing claims over the gas-rich sea.
Meanwhile, Marcos, who was sworn in as president Thursday, attended a ceremony at Clark Air Base on Luzon Island facing the South China Sea on Friday.
"A more modern aerial and surveillance capability is all the more felt given the territorial disputes that we, in the Philippines, are involved in," Marcos said at the ceremony of the 75th founding anniversary of the Philippine Air Force.
