Opening Statement: Committee on Foreign Relations Subcommittee on the Agreement of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB)

November 10, 2016

Opening Statement of Senator Loren Legarda
Committee on Foreign Relations
Subcommittee on the Agreement of the
Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB)
10 November 2016, Recto Room
 
Good morning and welcome to today’s hearing of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations on the Articles of Agreement of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB).
 
Similar to the Asian Development Bank and the World Bank, the AIIB is a multilateral lending institution first proposed by Chinese President Xi Jinping and Premier […]

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Speech: 5th Top Leaders Forum

November 8, 2016

Speech of Senator Loren Legarda
5th Top Leaders Forum
Science and Technology Towards Business Resilience
8 November 2016 | SMX Convention Center, Pasay City
I congratulate the organizers of the 5th Top Leaders Forum for getting our stakeholders together to inform and stimulate public conversation on the theme, “Science and technology towards building resilience.”
I have one message to everyone in this forum — We should not assume that science, research, and the tools they offer will just automatically find their way into the drawing […]

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Privilege Speech on the Paris Agreement

November 7, 2016

Senator Loren Legarda
Privilege Speech on the Paris Agreement
7 November 2016 | Senate Session Hall
 
Mr. President,
 
I rise today on the occasion of the entry into force of the Paris Agreement on Climate Change and the third anniversary of Supertyphoon Yolanda. Yesterday was also the International Day for Preventing the Exploitation of the Environment in War and Armed Conflict.
 
In light of the commemoration of Yolanda anniversary tomorrow, allow me first to put on record that we have allocated 25.6 […]

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