00:00President Ferdinand Armarcus Jr., outgoing U.S. President Joe Biden, and Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba Bukas
00:11signed a trilateral phone call with Presidential Communications Office Secretary Cesar Chavez.
00:16However, the agenda of the meeting is not yet decided.
00:20The virtual meeting was held following the trilateral summit held in Washington last year
00:26where security cooperation, infrastructure development, and regional economic resilience were discussed.
00:33Aside from this, the three countries held a multilateral maritime cooperative in December
00:39in the Exclusive Economic Zone of the Philippines to unify
00:43in maintaining freedom of navigation in the Indo-Pacific region
00:47in the face of rising tensions in the West Philippine Sea.
