OFW welfare is top PH foreign policy concern, says Duterte

Manila - President Rodrigo Du Terte guarantees that the welfare of migrant workers in the Philippines is the most anxious foreign policy issue in the Philippines on Monday

Duterte announced the news in his third national speech as he welcomed the economic contribution of migrant workers.

"I am a civil servant, I pledge to assure that your happiness will continue to be the diplomatic issue that we are most interested in," the president said.

Earlier this year, the president temporarily banned the dispatch of Filipino migrant workers to Kuwait after reports of a series of deaths and abuses of Philippine workers in the Gulf countries including Joanna Demepelis, whose body was found in the refrigerator I ordered.

Bank resolved in May after the Philippines and Kuwait signed an agreement to provide better protection for Philippine migrant workers in the Gulf countries.

"You (the Philippine migrant worker) embodies the natural resilience of the country, you are willing to work hard and sacrifice daily for the long-term benefit of your family and loved ones" I said.

The president added that the Philippine government continues to work closely with other countries that are accepting migrant workers in the Philippines in order to certainly benefit after reporting abuse and death.

"For this reason, we are continuing to work with recipient countries to benefit our allies," Duterte said.

"No matter how good leaders' good intentions are, no matter how prudent his mission is, without a political will to do what to do, they can only fail, desperate dreams House "he added.

More than 10 million Filipino people are abroad, remittance from people working in other countries and regions is the life line of the Philippine economy.

However, Duterte also has enthusiastic foreign supporters who are not afraid of the influence of the signature policy of the government of Duterte on human rights. Chinese Embassy in Manila pledged unconditionally to support drug war, announced a statement in July 2016. Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Yang Shuang answered this view before Du Terte visited China in mid-October and said, "Under the guidance of President Duttel, we understand and support the Philippine drug abatement policy I am doing it. "

Article 2.7 of the Constitution of 1987 reaffirmed that it states that "pursuing an independent foreign policy, which is most important in relation to other countries." "In September 2016, Duterte said: We must comply with and obey the principle of peaceful conflict without long-standing sovereignty, equality of sovereignty, no obstruction Commitment, this will contribute to our people and protect our interests. "

As foreign policy often involves conflicting contradictory interests and goals, politicians must develop policies that are most likely to promote national and global welfare. Therefore pursuing foreign policy from the viewpoint of fundamentalistic realism will require wisdom and courage - wisdom to choose value and benefits of competition, and courage to harmonize power and moral ideals . Hans Mohntentau, the father of modern international relations theory, wrote that there is no choice between power and common interests. To act well is based on political arts rules, that is political wisdom. Political actions are inevitably inevitable to be evil, despite that, it is moral courage. It is a moral judgment to pick the most malicious behavior among several means. In combination with political wisdom, moral courage and moral judgment, humans harmonize their political character with moral fate