June 7, 2019
Acceptance Message of Senator Loren Legarda
Award of Distinction by the European Union
7 June 2019 | Makati City
Excellencies,
Distinguished guests,
Ladies and gentlemen,
I am deeply grateful and honored to be given the Award of Distinction by the European Union.
I share this recognition with my colleagues in the Senate of the 17th Congress who supported me as Chair of the Committee on Foreign Relations and unanimously voted for the ratification of the Framework Agreement on Partnership and Cooperation Between the Philippines and the […]
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June 4, 2019
Valedictory Speech of Senator Loren Legarda
4 June 2019 | Senate of the Philippines
In 1998, I received my first mandate from the Filipino people as Senator of the Republic. By the end of this month, I will have completed my third term, for a total of 18 years in the Senate. It will be a coming-of-age.
My two decades of work as a journalist prepared me for the Senate, and my three terms in the Senate readied me for public service in […]
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May 28, 2019
Sponsorship Speech on the
“Agreement Between the Government of the Republic of the Philippines and the Government of the Republic of Indonesia Concerning the Delimitation of the Exclusive Economic Zone Boundary”
SEN. LOREN LEGARDA
Chair, Committee on Foreign Relations
Senate of the Philippines
Mr. President, distinguished colleagues:
I have the honor to sponsor the concurrence by this august body to the “Agreement between the Government of the Republic of Philippines and the Government of the Republic of Indonesia Concerning the Delimitation of the Exclusive Economic Zone […]
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May 23, 2019
Message of Senator Loren Legarda
Opening of the Homecoming of
“The Spectre of Comparison”
23 May 2019 | Museum of Contemporary Art and Design
Who is the Filipino?
This is a question that many of us have asked at one point in our life. The Filipino identity, even after more than a century of independence, is something that is not easily grasped.
Tonight, we ask this question once more as we welcome home The Spectre of Comparison, the exhibit that proudly represented the […]
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May 8, 2019
Message of Senator Loren Legarda*
Visionary and Lead Advocate of the Philippines’ Participation in the Venice Biennale
Vernissage of “Island Weather”
Philippine Pavilion at the 58th Biennale Arte
8 May 2019 | Venice, Italy
*(Delivered by Ambassador Domingo Nolasco, Philippine Ambassador to Italy)
Good afternoon and welcome to the Philippine Pavilion!
I would have wanted to personally welcome you all but we are in the midst of an election campaign in the Philippines.
It seems like just yesterday when we were trying to fill the […]
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