President Marcos said the ban on the deployment of Filipino workers to Kuwait would end.
“At that very quick, very short meeting, we agreed to continue to discuss some of the obstacles in our relationship in terms of the bans that we had imposed for employment. And he was very, very effusive in saying that we should remove all of those and we should continue as we had done before, which is a very important development,” Marcos said in his speech as he arrived from Saudi Arabia yesterday.
In an interview with Filipino journalists in Saudi Arabia, Marcos said the crown prince apologized to him and clarified that he was against the action taken by the Kuwaiti government against the Philippines. “We will fix it and we will make it because we love the Philippines,” Marcos said, quoting the crown prince.
When asked for the date of the release of Filipino workers’ claims, Marcos responded, “I cannot say because it also depends on the internal processes in Saudi Arabia.”Marcos and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman Al Saud held a bilateral meeting on the sidelines of the inaugural ASEAN-GCC Summit.
The Philippines will also continue to work to maintain its good relations with Saudi Arabia to ensure the protection of hundreds of thousands of Filipinos living and working in the kingdom, President Marcos said, addressing the Filipino community at the InterContinental Hotel in Saudi Arabia late Friday night.
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