Meeting with Acting Foreign Secretary Manalo
Led by US-Philippines Society President Ambassador John F. Maisto and Ambassador Thomas C. Hubbard, Society directors met with Acting Secretary of Foreign Affairs Enrique A. Manalo on May 3 to discuss US-Philippines interests and the Philippines’ hosting of the US-ASEAN Summit meeting in November which President Trump has committed to attend. The Secretary was in Washington DC to attend a US-ASEAN Foreign Ministers meeting with Secretary of State Rex Tillerson.
On 10 May, President Duterte appointed Alan Peter Cayetano as the new Foreign Affairs Secretary.