APD | Philippines to host Asian’s International Law Conference
By APD writer Melo M. Acuña
MANILA, Mar.18 (APD) – Foreign Secretary Teodoro L. Locsin, Jr. led other government officials, members of the diplomatic corps and leading legal luminaries during the kick-off rites for the Seventh Biennial Conference of the Asian Society of International Law this morning at the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) in Pasay City.
In his remarks, Secretary Locsin said the AsianSIL Biennial Conference scheduled on August 22 and 23,2019 “will benefit from the expertise not only of leading international law practitioners and teachers across the region as well as the Asian judges of the International Court of Justice as well as other international judicial and arbitral bodies.”
Its theme is “Rethinking International Law: Finding Common Solutions to Contemporary Civilizational Issues from an Asian Perspective” and will gather some 400 delegates from Asia and all over the world.
The AsianSIL is a region-wide forum for interaction among scholars and practitioners of public and private international law either based or interested in Asia. It is composed of national societies across Asia including the Philippine Society of International Law (PSIL).
AsianSIL is chaired by former Presidential Spokesman Harry L. Roque and the PSIL is led by University of the Philippines (UP) Professor Elizabeth Aguiling-Pangalangan.
The Seventh Biennial Conference will be hosted by the PSIL along with the UP Law Center-Institute of International Legal Studies under Director Rommel J. Casis and the DFA Office of Treaties and Legal Affairs led by Foreign Affairs Asst. Secretary for Treaties and Legal Affairs J. Eduardo Malaya. The conference is organized every two years with the last conference held in Seoul, Korea.
“The DFA is pleased to host and be associated with the forthcoming AsianSIL Biennial Conference and the revived Philippine Yearbook on International Law as these reaffirm the role of international law as guide to Philippine foreign policy,” Assistant Secretary Malaya said.
(ASIA PACIFIC DAILY)
