Philippine Consulate General, Hamburg TO HOST RP DELEGATION TO ASEM MEETINGS  

22 May 2007 — Consul General Armando B. Fernandez, Jr. of the Philippine Consulate General in Hamburg, Germany reported to the Department of Foreign Affairs that the Consulate will host the Philippine Delegation to the Asia-Europe Senior Officials' Meeting (ASEM SOM) on 27 and 28 May 2007 and the 8^th ASEM Foreign Ministers' Meeting (ASEM FMM8) to be held in the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg on 28 and 29 May 2007.  

The Philippine Delegation, to be led by Foreign Affairs Undersecretary for Policy Erlinda F. Basilio as ASEM SOM Leader, will include Philippine Ambassador to Germany Delia D. Albert; Consul General Fernandez; Ms. Maria Cleofe R. Natividad, Director; Minister Leslie J. Baja of the Embassy of the Philippines in Berlin ; Consul Christine Queenie C. Mangunay; and Ms. Ma. Carmela Teresa A. Cabreira, Principal Assistant for European Affairs of the Department of Foreign Affairs.  

Germany 's Federal Minister for Foreign Affairs Frank-Walter Steinmeier, the incumbent President of the Council of the European Union (EU), will welcome the delegations to the ASEM FMM8 when it opens on 28 May 2007.  The First Mayor and President of the Senate of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg is also scheduled to welcome the delegations on 29 May 2007 at the Hamburg Town Hall, which, together with the Hamburg Stock Exchange,  have been chosen as the main venues for the ASEM Meetings.  

The Philippines has confirmed bilateral talks with other ASEM country-partners at the sidelines of the ASEM FMM8.  

The Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg, one of the 16 German federal states and the second largest city in the Federal Republic of Germany, is the economic and cultural hub of northern Germany .  The Philippines is represented in Hamburg with a Consulate General that was established in 1954 and acknowledged as the first Philippine Foreign Service Post in what is now the Federal Republic of Germany.  END

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