Marcos cites 'productive' talks with Ramos-Horta; eyes deeper ties with Timor Leste

Manila Bulletin

President Marcos described his bilateral meeting with Timor Leste President Jose Ramos-Horta as a "productive" one as he thanked the latter for supporting the Philippines in the South China Sea issue and expressed a desire to enhance the cooperation between both countries in various areas.   Marcos said this following his meeting with Ramos-Horta in Malacañan on Friday morning, Nov. 10. The Timorese leader is on a State Visit to the Philippines upon Marcos' invitation. (Video Courtesy of RTVM)  READ MORE: https://mb.com.ph/2023/11/10/marcos-cites-productive-talks-with-ramos-horta-eyes-deeper-ties-with-timor-leste  Subscribe to the Manila Bulletin Online channel! - https://www.youtube.com/TheManilaBulletin  Visit our website at http://mb.com.ph Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/manilabulletin Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/manilabulletin Instagram: https://instagram.com/manilabulletin Tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@manilabulletin  #ManilaBulletinOnline #ManilaBulletin #LatestNews

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00:00 I'm very happy to report that beyond the formalities of these exchanges, President

00:11 Hoth and I had a very productive and interesting discussion on the mechanisms and the modalities

00:20 that we, with the experience of His Excellency in international affairs, the many suggestions

00:29 and mechanisms that he brought to light, that can be of use to the Philippines when it comes

00:36 to the challenges that we are presently facing in the issues that are regarding the South

00:42 China Sea or as we refer to it, the West Philippine Sea.

00:47 And this is, this is with gratitude that we also have received the expressions of support

00:56 from the President for the Philippines in terms of the rules, our adherence to rules-based

01:06 international law, to UNCLOS, and of all of the different issues that we are facing, geopolitical

01:17 issues that we are facing around the world.

01:21 Once again, the experience of the President has shown what the Philippines can do to further

01:28 our discussion and our argument as to the continued adherence of all parties to a rules-based

01:38 system and international law.

01:41 And for that, I thank him very much.

01:44 We took the opportunity to study our existing platforms of cooperations and of partnerships,

01:51 as well as we discussed matters of great importance to both our nations, particularly in the fields

01:57 of political cooperation and in people-to-people exchanges.

02:03 The President and I committed to direct our respective ministries to further the negotiations

02:08 in following fields, to reconvene the policy consultations that are hosted by Timor-Leste

02:15 in the near future.

02:16 There are many aspects to that consultation that will further the relations between our

02:26 two countries.

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