DFA pleads to over 4,000 Pinoys: Leave Syria now By Michaela P. del Callar 12/30/2011

DFA pleads to over 4,000 Pinoys: Leave Syria now

By Michaela P. del Callar 12/30/2011

Amid the dismal turnout of Filipinos joining government-organized evacuation from strife-torn Syria, the Department of Foreign Affairs again appealed to the more than 4,000 Filipinos still in the country to leave “while there is still time.”

Foreign Affairs Secretary Albert del Rosario expressed concern over the safety of the Filipinos due to escalating violence in the country as he assured them that the government will shoulder all repatriation expenses to Manila..... MORE

Source:  The Daily Tribune

URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/headlines/20111230hed4.html