Metro Manila, Philippines – President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. will hold a teleconference with the leaders of the United States and Japan on Sunday, Jan. 12, the communications office said on Thursday, Jan. 9.
“We can confirm that this is in the calendar of PBBM [President Bongbong Marcos] on January 12, Sunday,” said Communications Secretary Cesar Chavez.
The Palace did not reveal the agenda for the virtual meeting.
The three nations held a historic trilateral summit last year, where they reaffirmed their ties as maritime democracies.
The upcoming meeting will be the first for Japanese Prime Minister Ishiba Shigeru and the last for US President Joe Biden before he ends his term on Jan. 20.
The trilateral cooperation spans a number of critical areas, including regional security in the Indo-Pacific through maritime cooperation, as well as economic partnerships like the establishment of the Luzon Corridor.
The corridor aims to accelerate coordinated investments in high-impact infrastructure projects such as rail systems, port modernization, clean energy, semiconductor supply chains, agribusiness, and civilian port upgrades at Subic Bay.
