Miriam: No five-star treatment for Noy’s inaugural
06/30/2010 The anticipated attendance of several heads of state and heads of government is not likely to take place in today’s inaugural ceremonies of President-elect Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino as most of those who have arrived in the country are foreign and trade ministers. “If that is the case, then we are not being given, let us say, five-star treatment. “In a rating system with five stars, sending a prime minister or deputy prime minister would rate only a three star. Therefore, we are only a three-star state,” Sen. Miriam Defensor-Santiago said. This was the assessment made by Santiago, Senate foreign relations committee chairman, when asked by reporters during a phone-patched interview on the manner by which some foreign governments are responding to the election of Aquino who initially was swarmed by a number of ambassadors in his residence on Times Street, Quezon City even while Congress was still in the middle of the canvassing proceedings. Source: The Daily Tribune URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/headlines/20100630hed3.html |
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