Philippine President sent a recorded message to the ASEAN Future Forum 2024
WVR - On the morning of April 23, Philippine President Ferdinand Romualdez Marcos Jr. sent a video message to the ASEAN Future Forum held in Hanoi.
Philippine President Ferdinand Romualdez Marcos Jr. said that recent geopolitical developments in the world pose serious challenges to international and regional organizations, including ASEAN, in managing and resolving tensions as well as forming the regional security architecture and development trajectory of the Indo-Pacific region. ASEAN needs to protect the rules-based international order, ensuring peace, prosperity, sovereignty and territorial integrity of countries and peoples.
The Philippines commits to the ASEAN principles of mutual respect for the independence, sovereignty, equality and territorial integrity of countries, non-interference, peaceful resolutions of disputes, renouncing the threat or use of force and respecting human rights.
