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[MEDIA RELEASE] JFC Statement on the Passing of Former President Fidel V. Ramos

Auust 1, 2022

 

Arangkada Lifetime Achievement Awardee former President Fidel V. Ramos with the members of the Joint Foreign Chambers of the Philippines during the 2013 Arangkada Philippines Forum.

 

The seven chambers of the Joint Foreign Chambers of the Philippines express their condolences to the family of President Fidel V. Ramos on his passing.

In 2013, we honored President Ramos by awarding him our Lifetime Achievement Award at our annual Arangkada Philippines Forum for his outstanding contributions and superb leadership over several decades to achieving highly significant and lasting institutional and policy reforms of long-term benefit to the people and economy of the Republic of the Philippines.

We remember President Ramos for his strong efforts to promote foreign investment into the Philippines, to create jobs for Filipinos, and to reduce poverty in the country as a partner in all our chambers’ advocacy initiatives, from his visits in our capitals in Asia, Europe, and North America, and through reform legislations which he championed through the Philippine Congress.

We join Filipino political and economic leaders in remembering the great contributions of President Ramos to making the Philippines the Asian Tiger economy that it has become to be.

The JFC is a coalition of the American, Australian-New Zealand, Canadian, European, Japanese, Korean chambers and PAMURI. It represents over 3,000 member companies engaged in around $100 billion worth of trade and some $30 billion worth of investments in the Philippines. The JFC supports and promotes open international trade, increased foreign investment, and improved conditions for business to benefit both the Philippines and the countries the JFC members represent.

 

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