The Journal of an Unknown Knight by Jose Alejandrino

Author:Jose Alejandrino [Alejandrino, Jose B.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9786210100846
Publisher: Flipside Digital Content Company, Inc.

President Ramos’s decision to ban foreign participants was clearly in the national interest. The president’s decision was contained in his May 20 handwritten note to the executive secretary, which read: “In view of the predominantly political content of the scheduled Asia-Pacific Conference on East Timor to take place in Metro Manila and the active advocacy of such political matters by non-Filipinos such as Jose Ramos-Horta, which latter characteristic I consider inimical to the national interests, take immediate steps to exclude such persons and other non-Filipino conferees.” I concluded my article by saying:

Countries that are poor cannot afford to be world policemen by intervening in the affairs of every country. Nor can one effect change by isolating Indonesia, as Jose Ramos-Horta proposes to do. Had Fidel Ramos not done what he did, the damage to the Philippines would have been incalculable. History would surely have branded him as a traitor for the hardships brought upon his people. Something that the local convenors of the East Timor conference would do well to reflect on.

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