Philippines to pledge $100,000 to UN’s Yemen Humanitarian Fund

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“Even in the pandemic, the tragedy of great power politics has gotten worse. The big powers keep trying to draw us to their respective ideas,” Foreign Affairs Secretary Teodoro Locsin Jr. said during the ASEAN Foreign Ministers’ Retreat in Cambodia on Thursday.

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MANILA, Philippines — The Philippines will be pledging another $100,000 to the Yemen Humanitarian Fund, the country’s top diplomat said in a Twitter post on Wednesday.

 

Foreign Affairs Secretary Teodoro Locsin Jr. said the pledge will be sourced from the Philippines' International Commitments Fund. The country will be donating the exact same amount it did in 2021.

 

“The human situation of the proxy war in Yemen long ago reached unspeakable depths. Money cannot be better spent than to this cause,” Locsin said.

 

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