Administrative Order No. 108




MALACAÑAN PALACE MANILA BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE PHILIPPINES [ ADMINISTRATIVE ORDER NO. 108, February 13, 1968 ] DESIGNATING THE MEMBERS OF THE JOINT COMMISSION THAT WILL MEET WITH ITS INDONESIAN COUNTERPART TO REVIEW, UPDATE, REVISE, OR MODIFY ALL EXISTING BILATERAL AGREEMENTS WITH A VIEW TO IMPROVING OR ACCELERATING THEIR IMPLEMENTATION AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES ON MUTUAL COOPERATION WHEREAS, pursuant to Paragraph 5 of the Joint Communique issued at the conclusion of my State Visit to Indonesia, the two Heads of State agreed to form. a Joint Commission to meet as soon as possible to review, update, revise or modify all existing bilateral agreements, with a view to improving them or accelerating their implementation for the mutual benefit of the two countries and likewise study and recommend ways and means by which their countries may be of immediate economic help to each other; WHEREAS, the two Heads of State likewise discussed in the same Communique the desirability of formulating programs for mutual technical assistance, especially for increasing rice production, for cooperation in scientific research, and for the exchange of specialists, students and trainees as well as of scientific information; and WHEREAS, it is deemed urgent that the Philippine membership in the Joint Commission be constituted to sit down with its Indonesian counterpart to carry out the foregoing terms of reference NOW, THEREFORE, I, FERDINAND E. MARCOS, President of the Philippines, pursuant to the powers vested in ne by law, do hereby constitute and designate the members of the Philippine Panel as follows: Secretary of Foreign Affairs................................................................ Chairman Secretary of Finance........................................................................... Member Secretary of Agriculture and Natural Resources.................................. Member Secretary of National Defense ............................................................. Member Secretary of Education......................................................................... Member Secretary of Commerce and Industry .................................................. Member Director, Presidential Economic Staff.................................................... Member Governor, Central Bank ....................................................................... Member Assistant Secretary for Economic Affairs, DFA.................................... Member Assistant Secretary for Legal Affairs, DFA ........................................... Member The Flag-Officer-in-Command, Philippine Navy ................................. Member The Commissioner of Customs ............................................................ Member The Commissioner of Immigration....................................................... Member Chairman, ASAC................................................................................. Member Mr. Oscar Arellano............................................................................... Member Mr. Francisco Ortigas, Jr....................................................................... Member Miss Cristeta A. Feria, Secretary of the Committee............................. Member The Philippine Panel is authorized to engage the services of such technical assistants or personnel as may be needed for the negotiations herein referred to.£A⩊phi£ The necessary expenses that may be incurred by the Committee in the performance of its work shall be chargeable to the Office of the President. Done in the City of Manila, this 13th day of February, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and sixty-eight. (Sgd.) FERDINAND E. MARCOS President of the Philippines By the President: (Sgd.) RAFAEL M. SALAS Executive Secretary The Lawphil Project - Arellano Law Foundation