Marcos appoints Philippine UN envoy as new foreign minister

MANILA, 02 July 2022, (TON): The Department of Foreign Affairs said “Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. appointed Manila’s UN Ambassador Enrique Manalo as the country’s new foreign affairs secretary.” 

Marcos Jr., the son and namesake of the late Philippine dictator, won a landslide victory in May’s presidential election and was sworn into office.

He has vowed to open a new chapter in the country’s history and said his administration would have an independent foreign policy.

Manalo is a career diplomat who has been serving as the Philippine permanent representative to the UN in New York and had twice served as the department’s undersecretary. 

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