This column on foreign policy was impelled by several items I stumbled on in my readings:

First, Bobi Tiglao’s revelation in his column that our foreign secretary Alberto del Rosario was a representative of the Salim group’s business interests in the Philippines, and second, by Manny Pangilinan’s disclosure that the First Pacific group is waiting eagerly for del Rosario to leave the government and rejoin the group. With his future already set, does Secretary del Rosario find time these days to provide leadership and direction to the conduct of our foreign relations in the world?

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