MANILA, Philippines - President Aquino remains hopeful that he
could still meet Chinese leader Hu Jintao after their tete-a-tete in
Vladivostok, Russia was canceled.
Speaking to reporters on Wednesday,
Aquino said he hopes the two of them would have a dialogue so they could have a
heart-to-heart talk and share their thoughts in total honesty and openness.
“So that seems to be the way
forward to settle all of these things,” he said.
Aquino hinted the meeting might
take place in Cambodia during the Association of Southeast Asian Nations
(ASEAN) summit in November.
“I cannot say warmed up
relationship already, but at least it’s less cold than what it was,” he said.
It’s an opportunity for the heads
of state to have a frank exchange of ideas, Aquino said.
Speaking to reporters,
presidential spokesman Edwin Lacierda could not say if Hu would still be
China’s leader when the ASEAN summit is held in November.
“We don’t know when is the
turnover of the new president of China... I mean the new leadership of China.”
Lacierda refused to say if the
meeting would still take place.
“Any other meetings that are
planned I don’t know yet, except for the ASEAN, where there will be an
opportunity for both the leaders of the Philippines and China to meet,” he
said.
Last week’s meeting between
Aquino and Hu at the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit
in Russia failed to push through due to lack of common time for the two
leaders.
Aquino told reporters Wednesday
at Camp Aguinaldo that they wanted to sit down and discuss the Spratlys issue,
but tight schedules prevented them from doing so.
Foreign Affairs Secretary Albert
del Rosario told reporters in a briefing in Russia last week that the Chinese
leader could not accommodate or squeeze in Aquino on the available schedule the
DFA had set for the purpose.
“We gave them the dates and the
time when we would be open and we asked them to look at that and it didn’t jibe
with theirs,” he said.
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