DECEMBER

• ASEAN Ministerial Meeting and Leaders’ Summit

• Diplomacy is a Way of Life

• The Parliamentary Elections in Iraq

• ASEAN-Russia Meeting

• National Day Celebration of Japan (In Commemoration of the Birthday of His Majesty the Emperor) 

• 88th Independence Day of the Republic of Finland 

• 78th Birth Anniversary of H.M. King Bhumibol Adulyadej of the Kingdom of Thailand 

• APEC Workshop on HIV/AIDS Among Mobile/Migrant Workers

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NOVEMBER

• The 30th Anniversary of the Establishmentof the Lao People’s Democratic Republic

• Reception for Newly Confirmed Ambassadors and Officers of the Department of Foreign Affairs

• Recently Concluded APEC Leaders Meeting

• Subic Rape Case

• The Issue of Myanmar

• Developments in Iraq

• International Women’s Issues

• Seguis Before the Legislative Oversight Committee on the Visiting Forces Agreement

• Together in Taking on Terror

• Rice as a Way to Food Security and Poverty Eradication: The Philippine Experience

• The Eid Ul-Fitr Celebration

• Formal Notification Requiring the Presence of the Accused US Service at the Preliminary Investigation on Charges of Rape

• Trip to Washington DC and UN, New York and on his Departure for his Official Visit to Vietnam

• On the Reported Rape Committed by United States Servicemen

• The Issue of the Six US Servicemen Accused of Rape 

• Statement Reported Rape Committed by United States Servicemen  

• Completion of Trip to Washington DC and the United Nations, New York and on the Departure for an Official Visit to Vietnam

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OCTOBER

• Peace and Justice

• U.N. and Regional Organizations: Partners for Peace

• Opening of Comelec-DFA-POEA Registration Center for Overseas Absentee Voters

• Wreath Laying Ceremony at the Tomb of General Carlos P. Romulo on the Occasion of the Celebration of United Nations Week

• Gender and Development-Based Entrepreneurship Orientation Seminar

• General Debate of the 4th Committee on Questions Relating to Information (Agenda Item 33)

• On the Floods and Landslides in Central America and Mexico

• The 56th Anniversary of the Founding of the People’s Republic of China

• Moving Forward the Development Agenda of the United Nations

• Building Peace and Fighting Poverty Through UNESCO

• October 4 Statement

• Opening of the High-Level International Workshop on Federalism and Multiculturalism

• Moving Forward the Development Agenda of the United Nations

• On the Recent Bombing in Bali, Indonesia

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SEPTEMBER

• The 56th Anniversary of the Founding of the People’s Republic of China

• Our Common Humanity – The United Nations and the Building of a Better World

• Serving the People by Building a Community of Democracy

• The Press Briefing on the First Domestic Workers’ Summit

• The Occasion of the Celebration  of  the National Day  of  the  State  of Qatar

• The Death of Professor Haydee Yorac

• The  9/11 Commemorative Event

• Farewell Luncheon in Honor of H. E. U Tin Htun, Ambassador of the Union of Myanmar

• Courtesy Call of the Outgoing Contingent of Brunei  Darussalam to the International Monitoring Team

• The United Nations Summit and 60th Session of the United Nations General Assembly

• The United Nations at 60: Building on Legacies and Lessons Toward Charting the World's Shared Future

• Signing of the Memoranda of Agreement on the Establishment of a  Bilateral Consultation Mechanism and on the Cooperation Between the Diplomatic Institutes of the Philippine Department of Foreign Affairs and the Venezuelan Ministry of External Relations

• Occasion of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam’s 60th Independence Day 2 September 2005  

• The Launch of the Steering Committee of the Philippine-Japan Friendship Year

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AUGUST

• Occasion of the Courtesy Call of the Outgoing IMT Contingent

• Briefing for the OIC Heads of Missions on the Recently Held ARMM Elections

• DFA Statement  on the Action to the Request of the House Of Representatives

• The  60th Anniversary of the Independence of the Republic of Indonesia

• Farewell Luncheon in Honor of  H. E. Renée Veyret, Ambassador of the Republic of France

• Farewell Luncheon in Honor of H. E. Claudio Maria Henrique Do Couto Lyra, Ambassador of the Federative Republic of Brazil

• Notarial Functions of Philippine Embassies and Consulates General

• Democracy, Dialogue, Diplomacy

• The Signing of the Memorandum of Understanding on the Establishment of the Philippines-Australia Ministerial Meeting and Joint Press Conference

• Farewell Luncheon in Honor of Belgian Ambassador H.E. Christiaan Tanghe

• The 40th Anniversary of the Republic of Singapore

• The Briefing for the Diplomatic Corps on Recent Developments on the GRP-NDF Peace Talk

• On Recent Developments in ASEAN

• On the Death of Former Senator Raul Roco

• Briefing for the DFA Media Corps

• Farewell Luncheon in Honor of H.E. Yu Myung-Hwan, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Korea to the Philippines

• Farewell Luncheon in Honor of H.E. Stanislav Slavicky Ambassador of the Czech Republic to the Philippines

• Conferment of the Order of Sikatuna, Rank of Lakan on US Chargé D’affaires Joseph H. Mussomeli

• The 714th Anniversary of the Swiss Confederation (Usec. Jose Brillantes)

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JULY

• “The Philippines in the United Nations”,  Hon. Rafael E. Seguis at the Press Launching for the Centennial Celebration of the Late U. N. Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjöld

• On Recent Developments in ASEAN

• Farewell Luncheon for His Excellency Ibrahim Abdulrahman Al-Meghaiseeb, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the State of Qatar to the Republic of the Philippines

• Franchising, Entrepreneurship and the Globalization of Services Trade

• Current National Political Issues 14 July 2005

• Signing and Exchange of Notes Ceremony for the “Human Resource Development Scholarship (JDS)”, 8 July 2005

• On The Current National Political Issues, 08 July 2005

• On The 07 July 2005 London Blasts

• Luncheon in Honor of Visiting Former Ambassadors of the People’s Republic of China to the Philippines  and the Former Philippine Ambassadors to China Hotel Inter-Continental Manila, Makati City,  7 July 2005

• Arrival from the United Nations in New York; Washington DC; The 32nd OIC Ministerial Meeting in Sana’a, Yemen and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

• Commemoration of the National Day of the United States of America

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JUNE

• Philippine-Spanish Friendship Day

• Myanmar’s  Chairmanship of ASEAN in 2006

• Opening Ceremonies of the Overseas Absentee Voting (OAV) Training on the General Instructions for the System of Continuing Registration and Updated Data Capturing Machine Software

• Washington PE,  on the Official Residence of the Philippine Consul General in New York

• Cancellation of the 60th Anniversary of the Battle of Bessang Pass

• Departure for the G77 Summit, Doha, Qatar, 14-17 June 2005

• International Community’s Support for the Arroyo Administration

• Nurturing the Seeds of Friendship

• Luncheon in Honor of the OIC Ambassadors

• Shaping The World: The Global Filipino

• Myanmar’s  Chairmanship of ASEAN In 2006

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MAY

• Official Visits to Kyoto, New York and Washington DC, 5-19 May 2005

• Eulogy Of Foreign Affairs Secretary Alberto G. Romulo At The Necrological Service

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APRIL

• Joint Statement of the Republic of the Philippines and the People’s Republic of China Following the State Visit of Chinese President Hu Jintao

• 50th Anniversary of the Establishment of Diplomatic Relations Between the Philippines and Germany

• On the Untimely Demise of DFA ASPAC Assistant Secretary Alicia C. Ramos

• Departure Statement, Affairs On The 2005 Asian-African Summit

• Briefing for the Ambassadors and Representatives of ASEAN and the ASEAN Dialogue Partners on the ASEAN Ministerial Retreat

• Results of the ASEAN Ministerial Retreat, The Mindanao Peace Process, Certain Statements of a US Embassy Official and the State Visit of H.E. President Pervez Musharraf of Pakistan 

• Filipinos in Angola

• CDA Joseph Mussomeli  

• Reports on Certain Concerns That Have Been Raised Regarding Personnel Decisions 

• Filipino Fishermen in Eastern Sabah 

• Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf to Visit the Philippines; Stronger RP-Pakistan Relations Seen 

• Luncheon in Honor of H.E. Kantathi Suphamongkhon, Foreign Minister of the Kingdom of Thailand

• ASEAN Foreign Ministers' Retreat in Cebu 

• State Visit to the Philippines of H.E. President Hu Jintao of the People's Republic of China

• for H.E. Archbishop Giovanni Lajolo, Secretary for Relations of States, Vatican City, on His Holiness Pope John Paul II

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MARCH

• Congress, Consensus And Foreign Policy

• Welcome Luncheon in Honor of Amb. Peter Beckingham (UK& Northern Ireland) and Amb. Jorge Rey Jimenez (Cuba)

• The Secretary before the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the Commission on Appointments

• Presidential Spokesperson Ignacio R. Bunye on the Beheading of 4 OFWs

• Presidential Spokesperson Ignacio Bunye on Robert Tarongoy, 10 March 

• Press Briefing, 09 March

• The Video of Robert Tarongoy on Al-Jazeera

• Visit to Brunei Darussalam II

• RP-Brunei Reiterate Commitment to Stronger Ties, Protection of OFWs and Revival of BIMP-EAGA

• Briefing for Heads of Mission of OIC Member-Countries on the Situation in Sulu

• Visit to Brunei Darussalam, 9 March

• Usec. Custodio, the 50th Anniversary of the Archipelagic Doctrine

• Visit to Brunei Darussalam 

• First Meeting of the RP-Malaysia Working Group on Migrant Workers

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FEBRUARY

• Visits to China, Malaysia and Thailand

• Entry Into Force of the Kyoto Protocol

• Mula Sa Puso (Opening of the PLDT Libreng Tawag)

• Undersecretary Paredes, Visiting Forces Agreement Commission, DFA,

• Undocumented Filipinos in Malaysia

• Arrival from the Working Visit to Europe

• Before Departure for Japan

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JANUARY

• Official Visits to the BENELUX

• Ambassador Roy A. Cimatu, Head of PMEPC on the Current Situation in Iraq

• Press Secretary Ignacio Bunye on Vice President Teofisto Guingona's Appointment as Ambassador-Designate to Beijing

• Re-Engineering Education for Sustainable Development

• Ambassador Saber Abdel Kader Mansour

• 50th Anniv of the Signing of the Treaty of Friendship Between the Philippines and Egypt

• Partners for Peace, Partners for Progress

• Special ASEAN Summit on the Aftermath of the Tsunami Disaster and Other Matters Pertaining to the Asian Tsunami

• New Year's Message