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The Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) said Foreign Affairs Undersecretary for Civilian Security and Consular Affairs Brigido Dulay met newly-appointed French Ambassador to the Philippines Michèle Boccoz at the Department of Foreign Affairs on April 13.
“Undersecretary Dulay and Ambassador Boccoz reaffirmed the close ties between the Philippines and France, stronger cooperation in the areas of defense, maritime, business and investments, and health,” the DFA said on Friday.
The two diplomats likewise discussed the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, particularly the Philippine government’s vaccination program and France’s contribution to the COVAX Facility, the global pooled procurement mechanism for COVID-19 vaccines led by the World Health Organization (WHO).
Foreign Affairs Undersecretary for Civilian Security and Consular Affairs Brijido J. Dulay (left) and French Ambassador Michèle Boccoz (right). (DFA -OPCD Philip Adrian Fernandez photo)
PASAY CITY, Apr. 15 Foreign Affairs Undersecretary for Civilian Security and Consular Affairs Brigido J. Dulay welcomed French Ambassador to the Philippines Michèle Boccoz at the Department of Foreign Affairs on 13 April 2021.
Undersecretary Dulay and Ambassador Boccoz reaffirmed the close ties between the Philippines and France, stronger cooperation in the areas of defense, maritime, business and investments, and health.
Among other topics discussed were the Philippine Government’s vaccination plan and France’s contribution to the COVAX facility, upcoming commemorative activities in line with the 75th Anniversary of the Establishment of Diplomatic Relations between the two countries in 2022, and further engagements on key priority areas, including France’s new role as Development Part
Foreign Affairs Secretary Teodoro Locsin Jr.
In a tweet, Locsin shared to Dodo Dulay, Foreign Affairs Undersecretary for Civilian Security and Consular Concerns, that he was at his hairdresser when “a girl there said that her brother was sent home from Riyadh (Saudi Arabia’s capital) with only his clothes on his back, no back salary, usual accusation of stealing by son of a b ?! camel f ?:!ing bastard employer.”
He asked Dulay to “blacklist him from hiring (another) OFW” before cursing the unnamed employer.
Locsin also asked the undersecretary, through a tweet, if the department can extend help to the OFW with its Assistance-to-Nationals (ATN) fund. The agency uses the fund to help distressed Filipino workers abroad.