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French Ambassador to Manila Marie Fontanel is confident that the Philippines and France will build stronger relations in the future, as the two countries looked back at the high-level exchanges and agreements that defined the past year of their relations. Fontanel and Department of Foreign Affairs...

French Ambassador Marie Fontanel highlighted the core values of freedom, equality, and fraternity that bound the Philippines and France to have closer ties.   Bastille Day parade in Paris (Photo from AFP via France Diplomacy X page)   On Sunday night, July 14, at the celebration of the...

France has assured the Philippines that as a permanent member and president of the United Nations Security Council, it will perform its role to ensure that international law, particularly the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) and sovereignty of its regional partners are...

Bastille Day Whether there’s French blood coursing through your veins, or you just like the French wine swirling in your bloodstream, or you love pronouncing Paris as "Pa-reee," then you’re probably aware that in just a few days, on July 14, 2021, it’ll be Bastille Day. For the uninitiated,...