60th Year of German and Philippines Bilateral Relationship Celebrated:

The very handsome Ambassador of German Embassy to the Philippines , Tomas Ostrowski whom I've met personally in the coffee table launching of Senior Rodriguez "Front Pages" in Fairmont Library cum cafe invited me personally to come on his Embassy sponsored celebration, for the 60th German -Philippine bilateral relationship .

His excellency overall messages was enthusiastically applauded with so much gusto , with an over flowing authentic beer from Germany , delicattessen sausages, european cheese and preserved jams, cucumber and olive. Red and white wine from the old europe was served also.

Your EDSA 1989 non violent uprising was the main inspiration why Germany opted to have the reunification , paving more to the dismantle the long overdue wall of division haunted us from EAST to WEST.

The New German today after that 25 years of reunification is able to freshly gained and celebrate with the Philippines the 60th anniversary of having forged of mutual relationship for trade , diplomacy , people to people, educational exchanges , cultural enrichment , sciences and designed collaboration have a reason to start fresh and a new.

"Tonight we are celebrating the 60th Friendship and Cooperation of Germany and the Philippines , cooperation of democracy and freedom , acknowledging enshrined human dignity for each person , for which this friendship is manifested", ambassador Tomas said.

Extending his warm recognition to the economic performance of President Ninoy Aquino III, the German government and its people have been Philippines biggest trading partner reaching 4.7 billion Euro for 2013 alone, foreign direct invested by almost 100 German Companies which totaled for about 70 billion Euro ranging almost half of all total investment in whole of Asia.

The Philippines known for being the worlds greatest supplier of natural resources ( raw materials),is on upswing of rapid development.

The new milestone for the German-Philippines relationship from time of its oldest establishment of Chamber of Commerce ( in Asia), is the establishment of framework for social security arrangement , this very impetus evidence for a new politics and economic renaissance for the German-Philippines relationship.

From the time the people of Hamburge entrenched the deep relationship to the Philippines it "enriched futher more the diplomacy, political , when the Philippines tries to reach , solidify, strengthen its commitment to pass, enact the BBL Bangsamoro Law ,promoting to advocates the rule of law .

" The German position advocating peace and decorum for the settlements of Philippines maritime disputes with its neighbors ", hence the German people is committed for the Philippines to impart ,new ways to solve climate change , strengthened its capabilities for disaster response , and the German Ambassador personally thanks all the people of Germany for generosity in helping the Filipinos , assisting its victim of Yolanda ( Haiyan storms).

Now, the German and Philippines is even closer to each other despite of its 10k km apart , its comes to a point of new milestones . There are 30 thousand German citizens in the Philippines, and there are 15 thousand Filipino residing in Germany. From the time the Philippines establishes its Philippine consulate office in Germany since 1954 , 10 years after the two became inseparable for the trade engagement. Germany became the Philippine largest trading partner to Europe ,equating to 7 billion USDollar.

The very fundamentals of this bi lateral relationship is recognizing human rights, rule of law and Philippines sense of Justice. Fundamentals for the German Industry to keep trade in the Philippines is its commitment to be open minded.

German -Philippine relationship ushering the 60th year of mutual respect, from time of 1963 state visits of German President to the Philippines, and the personal visitation of President Corazon C. Aquino in 1989, followed by state visit of President of the Republic of the Philippines Fidel V. Ramos in 1994 .

"On Celebrating German Reunification , the fall of Berlin wall since 25 years ago "November 1989", this creates a new Future for German and Philippine Bilateral relationship.

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Henry Estipona
Philippines

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