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| Pres. Aquino make final appeal for Mary Jane Veloso |
Almost every Filipino cheered and felt glad when Mary Jane Veloso was spared from execution by the Indonesian Government. What we don't is when President Benigno Aquino III made his last-minute appeal to Indonesian President Joko Widodo is he broke the protocol.
According to the Cabinet Secretary Rene Almendras President Aquino approached the Indonesian Foreign Minister Retno Marsudi personally after a BIMP-EAGA meeting in Langkawi, Indonesia on Tuesday to talk about the act of surrendering of Veloso's recruiter, Maria Kristina P. Sergio, earlier that day.
Cabinet Secretary Rene Almendras said that President Aquino broke the protocol when he talked to Marsudi.
"The normal protocol to set up a conversation between two presidents is the minister of foreign affairs, talks to the other minister of foreign affairs. They discuss, they agree and then the call between the two presidents is arranged," he said.
The cabinet secretary also said that the Foreign Affairs Secretary Albert del Rosario was about to call Marsudi when President Aquino insisted on talking to the foreign minister.
"The President sort of breaking protocol and said: 'No, I will talk to her.' It was the President himself who talked to the Indonesian foreign minister. The Indonesian foreign minister was quite surprised because normally, that is not done. When the President did that, she promised: 'Yes, Mr. President. I will immediately relay your message to both the president and to whoever else needs to know in Jakarta,'" Almendras said.
But the good thing with what President Aquino did is that his last-minute appeal worked. It saved the mother of two from being executed by the Indonesian firing squad.
"The key there was how do we convince the Indonesians that we had enough of a resource or a situation with the recruiter here in the Philippines to merit the stay that was being asked," Almendras said.
Still, everyone is thanking the Indonesian Government for sparing Mary Jane Veloso from execution.
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Source:abc-cbnnews
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