The European Union (EU) is seeking to strengthen relations with the Philippines into a more strategically rounded partnership beyond “trade and aid,” a visiting high-ranking EU official said on Wednesday.

In a joint press briefing after a closed-door meeting with Philippine Foreign Affairs Secretary Alberto del Rosario, the High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy and Vice President of the European Commission—Lady Catherine Ashton—stressed the EU’s commitment to pushing regional security particularly for sustained peace in the South China Sea, the Mindanao peace process and development, and more effective disaster risk reduction.

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