H.E. Raul S. Hernandez, Philippine Ambassador to Turkey, Turkey’s Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu and Bangsamoro Autonomous Region for Muslim Mindanao (BARMM) Minister Mohammad Shuaib Yacob for Agriculture, Fisheries, and Agrarian Reform with arms linked in solidarity and friendship, a testament that the Philippines and Turkey continue to stand together, shoulder-to-shoulder, as partners for peace. (Embassy Photo)
Turkey’s Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu and the UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres with delegates at the opening of thee to the 6th Istanbul Mediation Conference (Embassy Photo)
H.E. Raul S. Hernandez, Philippine Ambassador to Turkey (4th from left) led the country’s participation to the 6th Istanbul Mediation Conference with participants from the Philippines, including Bangsamoro Autonomous Region for Muslim Mindanao (BARMM) Minister Mohammad Shuaib Yacob for Agriculture, Fisheries, and Agrarian Reform, Prof. Miriam Coronel-Ferrer from the UN Standby Team of Senior Mediation Advisers, and Minister and Consul General Enrique Voltaire Pingol. In the photo, the country’s representatives to the event is joined by H.E. Ambassador Fatih Ulusoy of Turkey and Chair of the International Decommissioning Body (IDB) based in Cotabato and Mr. Huseyin Oruc, Deputy Head of the Istanbul-based Humanitarian Relief Foundation (IHH) and one of the members of the International Monitoring Team in the Mindanao peace process (Embassy Photo)
H.E. Raul S. Hernandez, Philippine Ambassador to Turkey, led the country’s participation to the 6th Istanbul Mediation Conference organized by Turkey’s Ministry of Foreign Turkey on 31 October 2019 with the theme “International Peace Mediation: Taking Stock and Looking Ahead.”
Other participants from the Philippines included Bangsamoro Autonomous Region for Muslim Mindanao (BARMM) Agriculture, Fisheries, and Agrarian Reform Minister Mohammad Shuaib Yacob, Prof. Miriam Coronel-Ferrer from the UN Standby Team of Senior Mediation Advisers, and the Embassy’s Minister Enrique Voltaire Pingol.
The event brought together close to 400 policy-makers, diplomats, international organizations and NGOs in Istanbul with the participation of Turkey’s Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu, the UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres, and the members of the UN Secretary General’s High-Level Advisory Board on Mediation (HLAB).
Sessions discussed the various main aspects of the practice of mediation: the role of regional and international organizations in the field of mediation, strengthening cooperation, various main aspects of the practice of mediation, and the impact of emerging technologies on peace efforts. References were also made to the Philippines’ success and progress in the peace process in Muslim Mindanao.
