Filipino Diplomats - Ambassadors of the Philippines, Foreign Ministers of the Philippines, Blas Ople, Cardozo M. Luna, Salvador Laurel (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 32. Chapters: Ambassadors of the Philippines, Foreign Ministers of the Philippines, Blas Ople, Cardozo M. Luna, Salvador Laurel, Department of Foreign Affairs, Lauro L. Baja, Jr., Arturo Tolentino, Felipe Agoncillo, Carlos P. Romulo, Rafael M. Salas, Emmanuel Pelaez, Narciso Ramos, Nieves Confesor, Miguel Varela, Alfonso Yuchengco, Pedro Gil, Leticia Ramos-Shahani, Patricia Santo Tomas, Francisco Afan Delgado, Leon Maria Guerrero III, Delia Albert, Rosario Manalo, Amado Cortez, Antonio C. Delgado, Manuel Collantes, Estefania Aldaba-Lim, Jose Manuel Estela Stilianopoulos, Domingo Siazon, Jr., Rodolfo Severino Jr., Joaquin Miguel Elizalde, Expedito Leviste, Jose Laurel III, Ariel Abadilla, Jose Calingasan, Mariano Garchitorena, Victor G. Garcia III. Excerpt: Lieutenant General Cardozo M. Luna (born September 7, 1953) is the former Philippine Ambassador to the Netherlands. Luna was based in The Hague, the Legal Capital of the World and the International City of Peace and Justice. He is a retired three-star general and the 35th Vice Chief of Staff of the Armed Forces of the Philippines, the second highest position in the AFP hierarchy. Cardozo Luna also served as the commander of two unified commands, Eastern Mindanao Command and Central Command. He descended from the Luna clans of Badoc, Ilocos Norte where the ancestry of Antonio Luna and Juan Luna, members of the 1896 Philippine Revolution also came from. He retired from the military service on the 1st of May 2009 in view of his nomination to the post of Philippine Ambassador to the Netherlands. He was a Permanent Representative of the Republic of the Philippines to the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), an international agency, located in The Hague, Netherlands. He also served as a Governor of the Common Fund for Commodities, a UN funded organization assi...