Marcos to visit Germany in March
PHILIPPINE President Ferdinand R. Marcos, Jr. said on Thursday that he will be visiting Germany in March.
Mr. Marcos told German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock of his plan to visit Berlin on March 12 during their meeting at the presidential palace.
He said his office has been “in contact” with the German Embassy in Manila over the past few months to arrange the visit ahead of the 70th anniversary of the Philippines’ diplomatic relationship with Germany in October.
“And I think we have finally managed, with your embassy’s staff, we’ve been driving them a little crazy. We keep moving things because things have been coming up. But I think we have come down on the March 12th date,” Mr. Marcos told Ms. Baerbock. “So I can commit to that now,” he added.
Ms. Baerbock’s visit in Manila is the first by a German federal foreign minister in over a decade.
The last Philippine president to hold an official visit to Germany was the late Benigno “Noynoy” S. Aquino III in 2014. — Kyle Aristophere T. Atienza