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Marcos: Asean meet to push through in May

President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. on March 27, 2026 says the Philippines' hosting of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) Leaders' Summit in May would push through despite the ongoing war in the Middle East.

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Transcript
00:00There are people who are wondering about what happened to the ASEAN Summit.
00:05We have consulted with our counterparts in the other member states, in the 10 other member states.
00:16And the question that I asked them is very simple.
00:21Would you prefer, because everybody is busy with the oil crisis that's going on because of the war in the
00:27Middle East,
00:27would you like to postpone the ASEAN Summit?
00:31The consensus that we came to is that it is precisely now that we must coordinate our efforts.
00:39So that is what we are going to do. Ipapatuloy natin yung ASEAN Summit.
00:43Ngunit, the way that we describe it is that we have, it is a bare bones ASEAN Summit.
00:52It's just, we will not talk about, we will be talking about three main subjects,
00:56about the supply of petroleum and petroleum products, about the supply of food and the price of food, and migrant
01:06workers.
01:07Those will be the three subject matters that we will be taking up in the ASEAN Summit.
01:12It will be over a period of maybe a day and a half in this day,
01:17all day that we have planned.
01:19Lahat ng plinano natin, eh sabi ko, baka hindi naman ngayon ng panahon,
01:23na mag-masyadong elaborate ang ating preparasyon.
01:30Ang kailangan talaga sa panahon na ito ay makapag-usap kami mga leader upang malaman natin kung anong,
01:37what do we do in the future? What do we do for the rest of the year?
01:40What do we do? How can we help each other?
01:42And what is the ASEAN position regarding all of these shocks that are coming our way?
01:50So that is, yun ang nagiging usapan sa ASEAN.
01:56Tuloy tayo sa May 7, May 8, but as I said, it will be a very bare bones summit
02:04which will focus very closely on those three subject matters, oil, food, and migrant workers.
02:11Sir, sa halip na dalawang leader summit, isa na lang po ba ang magiging leader summit for this year?
02:17Hindi, wala tayong, hindi natin na pinag-uusapan muna yung sanaganda.
02:22So sa ngayon, tentatively, tuloy pa yung sa November dahil importante din yun
02:28because the other world leaders will be coming here,
02:31na galing sa Europe, yung ating sa China, yung ating sa Korea, sa Japan.
02:37Kailangan talagang pag-usapan lahat ng mga pangyayari nito.
02:40So it's going to be a very important also.
02:42But before we do that, siguro by September, October,
02:48magkatanong tayo kung ano yung gusto mga gawin ng mga ibang leader,
02:53kung makarating man sila, etc.
02:56Pero right now, we're focused on the summit in May.
03:00Sir, may nananawagan na kongresista nabawasan po ang budget ng ASEAN.
03:04From 20, gawin na lang daw kung 10.
03:06Yung 12 billion, ibigay na lang daw po dun sa mas nangangailangan yung apektado ng crisis.
03:11Ano po masasabi nyo, sir?
03:13Ginawa na lang.
03:15Tapos, that's why we did this.
03:17That's exactly why we did this.
03:19One of the big reasons why we did this.
03:51You
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