00:00Today, President Ferdinand R. Marquez Jr., outgoing U.S. President Joe Biden, and Japan Prime Minister Ishiba Shigeru held a trilateral leaders phone call.
00:10According to the Presidential Communications Office of PCO, the schedule of the first call was postponed yesterday, January 12,
00:19in response to the U.S. request for wildfires to continue in Los Angeles.
00:24The call was followed by the trilateral summit held in Washington last year,
00:32where the three leaders discussed issues related to security, infrastructure, and economy in the region.
00:39The three countries also held a multilateral maritime cooperative activity in December,
00:46which showed cooperation and, perhaps, freedom of navigation in the Indo-Pacific amid rising tensions in the South China Sea.
00:55Foreign Affairs Spokesperson Maria Teresita Daza said that the leaders are hoping to discuss the progress of their trilateral cooperation.
