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Ellen Tordesillas (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
Concerned about how Foreign Secretary Alberto Romulo treated the president of the Union of Foreign Service Officers, Victoria Bataclan, foreign service corps, including non-career employees, want to send this letter to Gloria Arroyo. “We, the concerned members of the Philippine Foreign Service Corps, are dismayed at the action of Secretary of Foreign Affairs, Dr. Alberto G. [...]...
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Ellen Tordesillas (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
There’s a brewing tension in what is traditionally a sedate world of foreign service that threatens to blow into the face Foreign Secretary Alberto Romulo. Last Friday, Assistant Secretary Victoria Bataclan was told that she has been relieved as assistant secretary for European Affairs. No reason was given. The Department of Foreign Affairs spokesman Ed Malaya [...]
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Ellen Tordesillas (Free subscription) | 02/11/2009
... as a retaliatory move, Foreign Affairs Secretary Alberto Romulo also relieved UNIFORS president Victoria Bataclan of her position as assistant secretary for European Affairs. Press Secretary Cerge Remonde said Arroyo has recalled Conejos’s appointment which she signed on Sept 3. Conejos was supposed to leave for Geneva immediately in time for the Nov. 19 retirement of Ambassador Erlinda...