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Philippines opens its first defense attaché office in the Gulf Feb 24, 2021 7:55 PM PHT Jojo Dass Citing opportunities for a closer relationship, the Philippines has officially opened a defense attaché’s office in the UAE’s capital city of Abu Dhabi. The move is also the first by the Philippines in the 6-member Gulf Cooperating Council (GCC), paving the way for stronger defense ties in the region. It is the second defense attaché’s office in the Middle East, the first being in Israel. In a media advisory issued Sunday evening, February 21, the same day the attaché’s office was ope...

First Philippine defence office in GCC opens in Abu Dhabi Filed on February 23, 2021 Col Fernandez (left) in a discussion with Ambassador Quintana (right), along with other embassy officers. — Supplied photo Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte approved the office's establishment in 2019. The first Philippine defence office in the Gulf has opened in Abu Dhabi, coinciding with the ongoing International Defence Exhibition and Naval Defence Exhibition this year. Hjayceelyn M. Quintana, Philippine Ambassador to the UAE, recently led the inaugural rites for the establishment of the Offic...

PASIG CITY, Dec. 16 (PIA) -- The 23rd Joint Committee Meeting (JCM) on Logistics and Defense Industry Cooperation between the Republic of the Philippines and Republic of Korea (RP-ROK) held recently via videoconference has strengthened bilateral relations in the areas of logistics and defense industries. The JCMs are conducted pursuant to the 1994 RP-ROK Memorandum of Understanding on Logistics and Defense Industry Cooperation, and are intended to uphold bilateral defense logistics cooperation, as well as promote the mutual interests of the Philippines and South Korea and are considered one o...