(All Headline News) - The Philippine government has unveiled its contingency plan for the small Filipino community in Iran in the wake of mounting crisis in the region because of the continued detention of Tehran of 15 British sailors.
Department of Foreign Affairs undersecretary for Migrant Workers Affairs Esteban Conejos said there were an estimated 20 Filipinos in Iran, mostly married to Iranians, but the crisis could spiral into a Middle East crisis.
Conejos said the Iran contingency plan involve the possible evacuation of the over 1.8 million overseas Filipino working in the Middle East.
He said the crisis in Iran "had repercussions in the entire region."
"My task is to make sure that these [individual country] plans are updated to withstand a new crisis that may arise. [The new plan] has to be coordinated because when we're talking of a regional threat, the contingency plans have to be regionally coordinated with each other," Conejos said... full story here
Department of Foreign Affairs undersecretary for Migrant Workers Affairs Esteban Conejos said there were an estimated 20 Filipinos in Iran, mostly married to Iranians, but the crisis could spiral into a Middle East crisis.
Conejos said the Iran contingency plan involve the possible evacuation of the over 1.8 million overseas Filipino working in the Middle East.
He said the crisis in Iran "had repercussions in the entire region."
"My task is to make sure that these [individual country] plans are updated to withstand a new crisis that may arise. [The new plan] has to be coordinated because when we're talking of a regional threat, the contingency plans have to be regionally coordinated with each other," Conejos said... full story here
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