Expert Marivil Villa Valles of the Philippine Permanent Mission to the UN addresses the UN Fifth Committee during the Opening Session of the 75^th UN General Assembly to discuss the Administrative and Budgetary Aspects of Financing UN Peacekeeping Operations.

           Ambassador Enrique A. Manalo today formally presented his credentials as Permanent Representative of the Republic of the Philippines to the United Nations to UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres.

12 August 2020, New York – At the UN Security Council High-Level Open Debate (VTC) on “Pandemics and the Challenges of Sustaining Peace” today under the Council Presidency of Indonesia, the Philippines recognized that the COVID-19 pandemic threatens the gains already achieved in finding just and lasting peace in conflict-affected areas.

     DFA Undersecretary Sarah Lou Y. Arriola                       Amb. Enrique A. Manalo

Photo: H.E. Fortunato T. Dela Peña, Secretary of Science and Technology, details DOST’s health system apps and innovations in the country’s COVID-19 response and recovery strategy.

The Philippines underscored the importance of a geographically-diverse and gender-balanced international and skilled workforce in realizing the goal of a UN that works.

UNIO Assistant Secretary Noralyn Jubaira-Baja delivers the Philippine statement at the General Debate of the 2020 C-34 Substantive Session.  AFP MGEN Andres C. Centino, Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations (J-3), is part of the Philippine delegation to the session.

NEW YORK, 18 February 2020 – The Philippines was elected today as Chair of the Special Committee on the Charter of the United Nations and on the Strengthening of the Role of the Organization.

Ms. Adoracion Navarro, Undersecretary, National Economic Development Authority, delivers the PH statement at the 58^th session of the United Nations Commission on Social Development

Left Photo: Minister Leila Lora-Santos of the Philippine Mission to UN, as G77 Coordinator, conducts negotiations of the CBD resolution.

Ms. Leila C. Lora-Santos, Minister at the Philippine Mission to the UN, as G77 and China Co-Coordinator, conducts negotiations on resolution on the “Development Cooperation with Middle-income Countries”                                                                   

Left photo: Philippine Chargé d’Affaires Kira Christianne D. Azucena delivers opening remarks for the exhibit

Right photo: Children read passages displayed in the exhibit and cut the ceremonial ribbon.

NYPM CDA Ariel R. Peñaranda delivers congratulatory remarks for the work of the Office of Internal Oversight Service.

Photo caption: Mr. Ariel Rodelas Peñaranda, Minister and Chargé d’ affaires, a.i., of the Permanent Mission of the Republic of the Philippines to the United Nations

H.E. PH Foreign Affairs Secretary Teodoro L. Locsin, Jr. delivered an intervention during the UN High Level side event “70^th Anniversary of the Geneva Conventions: Investing Humanity through Multilateralism”

Photo caption: (left) Foreign Affairs Secretary Teodoro L. Locsin, Jr. and panelists at the 74^th session of the United Nations General Assembly

COA Chair Michael Aguinaldo committed         Ambassador Kira Christianne D. Azucena presents 

to ensuring transparency, accountability           the COA team representing the 200 UN auditors

and independence if COA gets the                   of which 80% are women.

NYPM Chargé d’ Affaires a.i. and Deputy Permanent Representative Ms. Kira D. Azucena signs a poster of the Preamble of the Charter of the United Nations in a symbolic ceremony to launch activities for the 75^th anniversary of the Organization in 2020, held at the GA Hall on 26 June 2019.

UN Photo by Mr. Eskinder Debebe

NYPM First Secretary Angelito Nayan conveyed the Philippines support for the UN Department of Global Communications (formerly, the Department of Public Information) as a “responsible messenger” of the UN, providing accurate, dependable, factual and reliable information during the Opening (41^st) Session of the Committee on Information at the UNHQ.

Mr. Peñaranda, flanked by Ms. Marvie Misolas of Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns (Left) and Ms. Elsa Muttathu of International Presentation Association (Right), discusses programs undertaken by the government to preserve Philippine indigenous languages at the sidelines of the 18^th Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues.

Photo caption: 11 April 2019, New York – Ms. Kira Christianne D. Azucena, Chargé ď affaires, a.i. and Deputy Permanent Representative of the Philippines to the United Nations, enumerated government measures to showcase initiatives promoting decent work and protecting the rights and welfare of Filipino workers at home and overseas. END

09 April 2019, New York - National Youth Commission Assistant Secretary Paul Anthony Pangilinan showcases the Sangguniang Kabataan (SK) as a best practice including and empowering the youth in nation-building and policy-making at the 8^th ECOSOC Youth Forum in New York. (END) 

Photo caption: 28 March 2019, New York – Secretary Teodoro L. Locsin Jr. speaking before the United Nations General Assembly High-Level meeting on Climate Change and Sustainable Development for All, emphasizes the need for global climate action to address climate change. (Photo by: UN/Manuel Elias)

PCW Chairperson Rhodora Bucoy delivers the Philippine statement during the general discussion of the 63^rd session of the Commission on the Status of Women

17 January 2019 - The Philippines, as ECOSOC Vice President, led the discussions on “Fintech and Financial Inclusion” during a working lunch of the ECOSOC Bureau with the Executive Directors and Senior Staff of the World Bank Group last 17 January 2019 in Washington DC.

NEW YORK, 04 October 2018 – The Philippines addresses terrorism and violent extremism though a “whole of nation” approach, and affirms its rejection of “terrorism in all its manifestations wherever, by whomever, and against whomsoever committed—and whatever the excuse.”

Honorable Undersecretary Enrique A. Manalo, Department of Foreign Affairs, delivers Philippine Statement supporting global efforts against total elimination of nuclear weapons.

NEDA Undersecretary Rosemarie G. Edillon presents at the United Nations the Philippine experience in applying the multidimensional index (MPI) to eradicate poverty in all its forms and dimensions.

Special Envoy of the President to UNICEF Monica Prieto-Teodoro discusses her priorities on child and youth protection with UNICEF Executive Director Henrietta Fore.

Permanent Representative Teodoro L. Locsin, Jr. acts as Panelist in the discussions to stop trafficking in children and young people

Permanent Representative Teodoro L. Locsin, Jr. delivers the Opening Remarks at the launching of the anti-trafficking advocacy guidebook

Mr. Candido Astrologo, Assistant National Statistician, reaffirms the Philippines’ commitment to scale up disaggregated data, responsive to the needs of the poorest and the most marginalized and facilitative in monitoring the country’s attainment of sustainable development goals. (Photo by: Global Partnership for Sustainable Development Data)

NEW YORK – Secretary Hermogenes C. Esperon, Jr., National Security Adviser and Director-General of the National Security Council, met with H.E. Mr. Vladimir Voronkov, Under-Secretary-General of United Nations Office of Counter-Terrorism (UNOCT), at the sidelines of the first High-level Conference of the Heads of Counter-Terrorism Agencies of Member States on 28-29 June 2018 at UN Headquarters, New York.

Deputy Permanent Representative of the Philippines to the United Nations Ms. Kira Christianne D. Azucena delivers the statement introducing the ECOSOC Resolution on Geospatial Information and Services for Disasters.

Special Envoy on Transnational Crime Mr. Bruce Concepcion highlights the importance of international cooperation and capacity building assistance while respecting national sovereignty in fighting the illicit trade of small arms and light weapons in the Philippine statetment at the Third Review Conference of the Programme of Action last June 18 in New York

Commissioner Leah Tanodra-Armamento of the Commission on Human Rights of the Philippines traces the country’s leadership on the issue of Persons with Disabilities back to the 1970s at a meeting to launch the UN Flagship Report on PWDs.

Ambassador and Permanent Representative Teodoro L. Locsin delivers brief intervention at the commemoration of World Environment Day at the United Nations Headquarters in New York.

NYPM Chargé d’ Affaires a.i. and Deputy Permanent Representative Ms. Kira D. Azucena addresses the United Nations General Assembly during the commemorative ceremony of the 2018 International Day of Vesak held at the GA Hall on 01 May 2018.

New York, 25 January 2017 --The Philippine peace process took center stage at separate highlevel

meetings at the United Nations on January 23 and 24 in New York.

Presidential Adviser for the Peace Process Secretary Jesus G. Dureza addressed the

General Assembly at the High-Level Dialogue on "Building Sustainable Peace for all: Synergies

between the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and Sustaining Peace" in the morning of

NEW YORK, 09 November 2015 – The United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) re- elects the Philippines to the UN Commission on International Trade Law, the Permanent Mission of the Philippines to the UN reported to the Department of Foreign Affairs today.

NEW YORK, 16 October 2015 – Following Foreign Secretary Albert del Rosario’s recent call for the United Nations to affirm international law as the great equalizer among States, however powerful or weak, the Philippine Mission to the world body welcomed the international community’s growing recognition that developments in the South China Sea/West Philippines Sea maritime disputes concern the international community as a whole.

NEW YORK, 12 October 2015 – The United Nations General Assembly today unanimously approved the appointment by UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon of COA Commissioner Heidi S. Mendoza as Under-Secretary General of the UN’s Office of Internal Oversight Services (OIOS).

03 October 2015 – Philippine Foreign Affairs Secretary Albert F. del Rosario urged the United Nations and the international community to continue supporting the peaceful resolution of maritime disputes in the West Philippine Sea.

03 October 2015 – The Philippines reaffirmed its steadfast commitment to the rule of law and sustainable development through key priority areas in the United Nations.

NEW YORK, 29 September 2015 – Undersecretary for Policy Evan P. Garcia deposits the Philippines’ Instrument of Accession to the Nagoya Protocol on Access to Genetic Resources and the Fair and Equitable Sharing of Benefits Arising from their Utilization to the Convention on Biological Diversity to United Nations Treaty Section Chief Santiago Villalpando.

29 September 2015 – Philippine Foreign Affairs Secretary Albert F. del Rosario met with Millennium Challenge Account (MCC) Chief Executive Officer Dana Hyde to discuss prospects for the 2^nd Philippine Millennium Challenge Account (MCA) Compact in 2016.

24 September 2015 – Foreign Affairs Secretary Albert F. del Rosario was conferred a Doctor of Laws degree (honoris causa) by the College of Mount Saint Vincent, the alma mater of the late President Corazon Aquino, in New York today.

ADDIS ABABA, 17 July 2015 – “Good governance is good economics.” This was the message highlighted by National Treasurer Roberto B. Tan at the 3rd International Conference on Financing for Development, held in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia from 13 to 16 July 2015.

In line with the 117th Anniversary of the Proclamation of Philippine Independence, the Permanent Mission of the Philippines to the United Nations hosted a National Day reception attended by diplomats from various Permanent Missions here.

NEW YORK, 10 June 2015 – “The South China Sea is already in an environmental crisis,” Ambassador Lourdes O. Yparraguirre, Philippine Permanent Representative to the United Nations, told about a hundred UN legal experts in a forum organized by the Philippines that focused on the protection and preservation of the marine environment.

PHL PERMANENT REPRESENTATIVE AND PRESIDENT OF THE UN GENERAL ASSEMBLY EXCHANGE VIEWS ON PHL PRIORITIES IN THE UN

PHILIPPINE MISSION RECEIVES STUDENT-DELEGATES TO THE 2015 NATIONAL MODEL UNITED NATIONS

NEW YORK, 18 February 2015 – The Philippines continued its strong call for reforms in United Nations peacekeeping operations to ensure the safety and security of peacekeepers.