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Iloilo now ready for next week’s APEC meeting
- Source: http://www.pna.gov.ph/index.php?nid=2&rid=782636
- Tuesday, July 14, 2015
- (PNA), LAP/AJP/PGLENA/VLO
ILOILO CITY, July 14 (PNA) –- Iloilo is now ready to host the Strengthening Capital Market and Infrastructure Development meeting of the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit on July 23-24.
This was assured by Junel Ann Divinagracia, executive director of the 2015 Iloilo Organizing Committee (IOC) as she cited that the committee is ready to facilitate whatever is needed such as enhancement of the venue as well as manpower.
“Venues for the event have been checked,” she said.
The meeting that is spearheaded by the Department of Finance (DOF) is expected to gather around 120 delegates from the Asia Pacific and other high officials who will be invited to the meeting.
This July 18 a team from the National Organizing Council (NOC) will arrive in Iloilo for the needed preparations.
On the other hand, she added that Iloilo is just waiting for the completion of the Iloilo Convention Center (ICC) that will serve as venue for the September and October APEC meetings.
She added that works at the ICC are being done 24 hours to ensure that the facility will be completed as committed by end of the month.
Iloilo will be hosting the Senior officials Meeting for Disaster Risk Management, Small and Medium Enterprise Ministerial Meeting and Food Security Week & High Level Policy Dialogue on Food Security & the Blue Economy and Related Meetings in September and October.