Senator Francis “Chiz” Escudero, acting chairman of the Commission’s committee on foreign affairs, endorsed the approval of the appointments of Brady and the following ambassadors:
Olivia Palala, envoy to Jordan and Palestine; Benito Valeriano, envoy to India and Nepal; Alejandro Mosquera, envoy to Russian, Armenia, Belarus and Ukraine; Oscar Orcine, envoy to Libya, Algeria, Chad, Mali, Malta, Mauritania, Niger and Tunisia; Alex Lamadrid, envoy to Nigeria, Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Central African Republic, Cote d’Ivoire, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Liberia, Sao Tome & Principe, Senegal, Sierra Leone and Togo; and Patricia Ann Paez, envoy to Poland.
No member of the Commission objected Escudero’s motion.
President Benigno Aquino III recently appointed Brady, who already served as envoy to Beijing from 2006 to 2010, to her old post due to a need of a veteran ambassador to manage the ties with China amid a tense standoff over territorial disputes.
Congress has refused to approve the posting of Aquino’s last nominee, family friend Domingo Lee, saying that Lee was inexperienced.
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