MALACAÑANG
MANILA
BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE PHILIPPINES
ADMINISTRATIVE ORDER NO. 73
CREATING THE COMMITTEE ON PRESIDENTIAL FOREIGN TRAVELS AND THE COORDINATING WORKING COMMITTEE ON OVERSEAS PRESIDENTIAL VISITS
To ensure a smooth planning and execution of all plans and arrangements, including Presidential instructions, relating to Presidential foreign travels, there is hereby created a two-tiered inter-agency body consisting of a Policy Making committee and a Coordinating Working Committee composed of the following:
A. Committee on Presidential Foreign Travels
The Secretary of Foreign Affairs
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Chairman
The Secretary of Trade and Industry
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Co-Chairman
The Executive Secretary
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Member
In addition, the following shall serve as ex-officio members:
The Press Secretary who shall provide the inputs with respect to all media related activities and issues.
The Head, Presidential Management Staff who shall provide all the documents relating to the speeches and talking points of the President as well as inputs for press conferences and media interviews.
The Presidential Spokesperson who shall disseminate the official Presidential statements to the media.
The Senior Deputy Executive Secretary who shall provide all the necessary inputs resulting from his role as Chairman of the Coordinating Working Committee.
The Committee shall take charge of formulating the objectives of Presidential foreign trips, provides policy guidance on the various preparatory work and implementing arrangements relating to such trip and conduct post-visit assessment of the trips.
B. Coordinating Working Committee on Overseas Presidential Visit
The Senior Deputy Executive Secretary
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Chairman
An Undersecretary of Foreign Affairs
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Vice-Chairman
A representative of the Department of Trade and Industry
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Member
A representative of the Office of the Press Secretary – Radio Television Malacañang (RTVM)
–
Member
Office of the Deputy Executive Secretary for Finance and Administration
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Member
Presidential Management Staff
–
Member
Office of the Social Secretary
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Member
Presidential Security Group
–
Member
Protocol Office
–
Member
This Committee shall be responsible of coordinating the planning and implementation of all the plans, preparations and arrangements for the overseas Presidential visits.
The Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) shall be the lead agency in coordinating, through its overseas diplomatic and consular posts, all the arrangements in the countries to be visited by the President.
The Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) shall be the lead agency in coordinating the participation of private sector, particularly the accompanying business delegations and the meetings of the President with Business Leaders in the countries to be visited.
The Office of the Press Secretary (OPS) shall be the lead agency in coordinating all media-related activities; including preparation press kits, and the decision for the conduct of press briefings, press conferences, and interviews abroad, in coordination with the Presidential Spokesperson.
The Office of the Executive Secretary (OES) shall be the lead agency in coordinating the physical, substantive, protocular and all other preparations and arrangements for the overseas Presidential visits and in coordinating the participation of all government agencies and instrumentalities, including Congress and the judiciary as well as the Private Sector representatives interested in such visits.
The two committees shall immediately organize and set in motion the preparations for the forthcoming and succeeding Presidential foreign trips under this new set-up.
This Administrative Order shall take effect immediately.
DONE in the City of Manila, this 23rd day of JUNE in the year of Our Lord, Nineteen Hundred and Ninety-Nine.
(Sgd.) JOSEPH EJERCITO ESTRADA
President of the Philippines
By the President:
(Sgd.) RONALDO B. ZAMORA
Executive Secretary
Source: Presidential Museum and Library
Office of the President of the Philippines. (1999). [Administrative Orders Nos. : 1 – 144]. Manila : Presidential Museum and Library.
