Duterte: Teddy Boy Locsin will be next Foreign Affairs Secretary

President Rodrigo Duterte has chosen Teodoro "Boy" Locsin to replace Alan Peter Cayetano, who is expected to leave his post as Foreign Affairs Secretary.

Cayetano is expected to run for Congressman of Taguig City.

Duterte made the announcement during a press conference held upon his arrival from Indonesia to attend the ASEAN Leaders' Gathering.

Initially, when he was asked about Cayetano's replacement Duterte hesitated to provide a name.

"I do not have his permission (to divulge his name)," he said.

He instructed Special Assistant Christopher "Bong" Go to make a phone call and ask for permission.

Go, however, just nodded his head implying that revealing the name of is all right.

Locsin said, in his Twitter account, "I was asked I said yes; but love UN, the may friends & intellectual companions I made. But I didn't say no when asked as I didn't when he told me I was UN ambassador. If my Tito Chito Ayala trusted him implicitly; how can I not. Still UN work is like sharpening a blade everyday."

"I will be Secretary of Foreign Affairs which includes the UN; I will have a direct hand until the architecture of sovereign independence in all matters of state that my team started to erect is remitted. Talent that doesn't exist outside DFA will complete it."

Locsin is currently the Philippine Ambassador to the United Nations. He is a lawyer, politician and former journalist and was the representative of the First District of Makati from 2001 to 2010. — BAP, GMA News