DEFENSE and security will be on top of the agenda when President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. meets with United States President Joe Biden in Washington next week.
Department of Foreign Affairs spokesman Teresita Daza said 'discussions on security and defense are a given' since the two countries are long-standing military allies.The two leaders are expected to discuss the decades-old Mutual Defense Treaty and the Enhanced Defense Cooperation Agreement since the Philippines and US have major interests in the South China Sea.
Nayan said one of the summit's important outcomes 'is a leader's declaration on combatting trafficking in persons caused by the use and misuse of technology.''This is something that the Philippines fully supports, owing to our advocacy in Asean on the protection of migrant workers and the Philippines' role as a lead shepherd for Asean cooperation against trafficking in persons under the framework of the Senior Officials' Meeting on Transnational Crime,' he said.
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