President Ferdinand Marcos vowed to achieve ‘practical’ gains from his participation in the 32nd Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Economic Leaders’ Meeting.
The chief executive made the pronouncement while meeting with the Filipino community in at the Wyndham Grand Hotel in Busan, South Korea.
‘In the coming days while participating at the APEC’s Economic Leaders Meeting in Gyonju, I will push for initiatives that directly impact the daily lives of our people,’ Marcos said.
Among the said initiatives he said, are support for micro, small, and medium enterprises (MSME), digital trade opportunities, food and energy security, and climate change.
Marcos said he will also push to bring in more investments to generate additional sustainable jobs.
‘I will be meeting with business leaders to promote greater investment in industries such as technologies, agriculture and renewable energy. Every collaboration we made means more livelihood, more learning and more hope for Filipino families,’ he said.
He also informed the 212 Filipinos, who attended the event about government efforts to make government services accessible to them.
This includes opening a new Consulate General in Busan and a Social Security System office at the Philippine Embassy in Seoul.
‘We work very hard to ensure government services reach you all the way here in Korea or wherver you are. Our programs for our OFWs will continue so they will be given support and protected,’ Marcos said partly in Filipino.