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PNoy bares cordial talk with Duterte

RG Cruz, ABS-CBN News

<div class="embed-wrap"><figure data-feedback="fb:likes,fb:comments"><img src="http://sa.kapamilya.com/absnews/abscbnnews/media/news-special1/nation/06/17/pnoy-duterte.jpg"/><figcaption><div class="embed-desc">President Benigno Aquino III and his successor Rodrigo Duterte. Composite Image</div></figcaption></figure></div>MANILA - For all the fire and brimstone they exchanged during the last presidential campaign, President Aquino and his successor Rodrigo Duterte had a very pleasant exchange during their phone conversation Thursday.President Aquino revealed details of their brief phone conversation during the farewell lunch he hosted for members of the Malacanang Press Corps on Friday.The conversation occurred aboard a barge as the Chief Executive and Executive Secretary Jojo Ochoa showed members of Duterte&#x27;s transition team around the palace.The 2 leaders talked on the phone of Duterte&#x27;s assistant. Bong Go. &quot;It was a very short conversation. ‘Yung members of his staff ‘no went to the Executive Secretary yesterday. The Executive Secretary brought them to me. We shared some of our experiences in the past six years to them,&quot; Aquino said.&quot;We went through Malacañang to show them the physical layout and then we proceeded to Malacañang Park, showed them Bahay Pangarap and various facilities within Malacañang Park and that’s where they got in touch with President-elect Duterte.&quot;We had a conversation, perhaps short conversation, about a minute or so ‘no, wherein I congratulated him. I think we asked each other how we were and I reiterated the offer to be of assistance, in any and every manner that they need it. And, more or less, that was ano, it was a pleasant conversation, that’s how it ended. &quot;The outgoing Chief Executive expects to have another conversation with Duterte, this time in person, during Duterte&#x27;s inauguration. &quot;Hindi naman ako nag-notes nang husto ‘no. And, I understand ‘yung in his inauguration, we will have a probably a short conversation prior to his taking the oath. And I was reserving and I guess he was also reserving all of the points that we would like to raise with each other for that meeting.&quot;The President said his successor appeared to appreciate his words.&quot;Parang ikinatuwa naman, hindi naman tinanggihan at parang pinasalamatan ‘yung alok natin na sabi ko: &#x27;Kung anong maitututlong ho namin sa inyo o ngayon sa transition at tsaka pagkatapos, para hindi na kailangan, parang reinvent the wheel kumbaga,&quot; he said.Aquino recalled he too had his own pleasant times with Duterte.&quot;Ngayon ‘yung… I’m sure na naalala ko naman ‘nong ako’y tumakbo. Both times inintindi naman nila, inasikaso, tinulungan tayo ni President-elect Duterte, including the presidency [in 2010] ‘no. ‘Yung we had one of our, one of the first major turnout of people happened in Davao. I’m not sure if it was Davao first, then Zamboanga and I think that was the sequence. Of course, ‘yung crowd in Dumaguete that build up, their very big part ‘no, para at least more than half of this very big part was the first, followed by Zamboanga and Davao.&quot;Aquino told one of the members of the team, Duterte&#x27;s incoming executive secretary, Salvador Medialdea, of their wish for cooperation with the new government.&quot;Ngayon, sorry ha, I don’t recall which came first, but of them really had massive turnouts of people. So, when I get to see him and actually I communicated this to Atty. Medialdea ‘no, na it is our hope, that the elections are over, we share one country, we’d like them to be able to build upon all of the things that we have started, we have implemented, we have completed.&quot;So we moved parang further along the path of advancement for our country and our people. And to that I think, every patriot should be looking towards helping the incoming administration address the problems that are still here and the forthcoming problems that undoubtedly will happen in this period of parang global challenges.&quot;The President hands over the reins of government to his successor on June 30.

MANILA - For all the fire and brimstone they exchanged during the last presidential campaign, President Aquino and his successor Rodrigo Duterte had a very pleasant exchange during their phone conversation Thursday.

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PNoy bares cordial talk with Duterte

RG Cruz,

ABS-CBN News

Published June 17, 2016 06:19 PM PHT

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Updated June 17, 2016 08:12 PM PHT

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