00:00A trilateral phone call was made between President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. to outgoing U.S. President Joe Biden
00:11and Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba.
00:16According to the Presidential Communications Office, Secretary Cesar Chavez,
00:22this was made last Sunday, January 12.
00:25As of now, I do not know what the agenda of the meeting is.
00:32The virtual meeting is in accordance with the trilateral summit of the three countries
00:37in Washington, D.C. last year.
00:40Among the topics discussed were security cooperation, infrastructure development,
00:46and regional economic resilience.
00:50Aside from that, a multilateral maritime cooperative activity was also held
00:56in the country last December to promote unity in maintaining freedom of navigation
01:05in the Indo-Pacific region following rising tensions in the South China Sea.
