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BALER, Aurora – Commitments
for more investment, job creation and pledges of interest from the American
business leaders are only a few of the many “pasalubong” President Gloria
Macapagal-Arroyo brought home for the Filipino people after her 10-day
successful working visit to the United States.
“We once again secured more
investment, job creation and pledges of interest by many new business
leaders,” the President said.
Instead of reading it at the
airport, the President has incorporated her arrival statement with her
speech at the 109th anniversary celebration of the Baler Siege
and 6th Philippine-Spanish Friendship Day.
The President arrived early
this morning via a PAL commercial flight at the Terminal 3 of the Ninoy
Aquino International Airport (NAIA).
In her speech here, the
President said that the US Senate has passed the Philippine Veterans Equity
Bill after 62 years of waiting on the part of Filipino veterans.
She expressed confidence that
the US House would also pass the bill after some of the congressional
leaders informed her delegation that there is majority of support for the
Philippine veterans.
“So we are cautiously
optimistic about the bill’s passage, but it is not a sure thing,” she said
adding that under the bill two-thirds of the money is for US veterans, and
the issue is now on the domestic US politics “of how to pay for the entire
bill.”
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