07/04/2011Spain thanks RP for declaring June 30 as PH-Spanish Friendship Day
In a momentous gesture, Spain’s Congreso de Diputados formally expressed the country’s gratitude toward the Philippines for declaring the Philippine-Spanish Friendship Day on June 30 of every year in commemoration of the historic Siege of Baler.
Spain’s unprecedented move was made in response to an equally unprecedented initiative by the Philippines to pass the Philippine-Spanish Friendship Day Act (Republic Act 9187) in 2003, becoming the only former colony to proclaim its friendship by law..... MORE
Source: The Daily Tribune
URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/nation/20110704nat7.html
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hindi pa ba sapat na ang pangalan ng kawawang bansa natin ay hango sa dating hari ng mananakop na espana? o kaya eh palitan muna kaya bago magdeklara ng "ph-spanish friendship day"??
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