Boracay, 7 other sites approved to host APEC meetings in 2015

Malacanang has approved eight areas in six regions - including some hit by recent typhoons - as sites for hosting the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation meetings in 2015.

 

The areas approved to host the APEC meetings include Metro Manila; Boracay and Iloilo City in the Western Visayas; Tagaytay City in Southern Tagalog; Metro Cebu in the Central Visayas; Bagac, Bataan and Clark, Pampanga in Central Luzon; and Legazpi City, Albay in Bicol.

 

This was contained in a July 22 memo from Executive Secretary Paquito Ochoa Jr. to organizers of the APEC 2015 meetings, including local government units concerned.

 

Ochoa's memo, a copy of which Albay Gov. Jose Salceda posted on his Facebook page, indicated the following sites had been "approved to host the different APEC 2015 meetings." 

 

 

Ochoa said the final list of meetings for each site would be issued in a separate memorandum.

 

Albay in the Bicol region and Cavite in Southern Tagalog are some of the areas hit hard by Typhoon Glenda (Rammasun) earlier this month. Glenda left at least 98 dead and more than P10 billion in damage.

 

The APEC Summit, which would include leaders from the United States, Japan and China, will be held in the country in November 2015.

 

The APEC leaders’ meeting, said to be the biggest and most high profile annual gathering of world leaders from 21-member economies, will be hosted by President Benigno S. Aquino III before he ends his term in June 2016. —Joel Locsin/NB, GMA News