President Benigno Aquino III said Wednesday he will fly to the United States, Russia, Laos and Cambodia next year and might include Australia, New Zealand and Papua New Guinea in his 2012 travel plans.But he said he had asked the Foreign Affairs Department to plan his foreign visits carefully.
“I told the Department of Foreign Affairs … the way you’re planning it out, I might be spending half of the year out of the country and I will not accept that,” Mr. Aquino said.
US President Barack Obama invited Mr. Aquino to visit Washington next year during their meeting in Bali last month.
Mr. Aquino said he would also be attending the two summit meetings of the Association of the Southeast Asian Nations in Cambodia, the Asia-Europe Meeting in Laos, and the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation conference in Russia.
Mr. Aquino, who promised fewer trips abroad compared to those made by his predecessor Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo when he assumed office in 2010, has been out of the country 11 times in the last 10 months.
He traveled to Indonesia and Singapore in March, to Thailand in May, to Brunei in June, to Japan and China in August, to the United States in September, to Japan in September, and to the United States and Indonesia in November.
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