SAUDI – IRAN DEPLOMATIC RIFT AFFECTED WORLD STABILITY &
OFW’S
GENERAL SANTOS CITY - January 6, 2016, the presence
situation of the recent diplomatic row between Saudi Arabia and Iran will
affect OFWs. ASec. Charles Jose said, “We are monitoring very closely the
developments in Middle East, particularly Saudi Arabia and Iran relations. So
far there are no indications that the safety and well-being of our OFW’s are in
danger”.
Nevertheless, our Embassies’ are prepared to assist our
OFW’s under any contingency. And the Philippine government is ready to use all
the resources at its disposals to insure the safety of our OFW’s.
“We have demonstrated in the pass crisis this resolve in
capability when we repfratreted thousands of our OFW’s from Libya. Iraq, Syria
and Yemen in recent years and we accomplished our mission successfully for
safety returned home of our OFWs, ASec. Jose said”.
Meanwhile – Tension in disputed sea might escalate in
South-east Asia after China’s “Test Flight” on the Artificial Island. According
to the Philippine government spokesman Charles Jose said, “We intend to file a
protest versus China’s test flight on the Fiery Cross Reef (Artificial Island)
constructed by the Chinese regime and has already completed on schedule.
China’s first landing of a plane on one of its artificial
island runway in the South China Sea shows powerful Beijing’s facilities in the
disputed region are being completed on time schedule and fears by nearby
neighbor regions military flights will inevitably follow, foreign officials and
security analyst said.
China’s increasing military presence in the disputed sea
lane could effectively lead to a Beijing-controlled air defense zone, analyst
said, rising up tension with other claimants and with the United States in one
of the world’s most volatile areas, expert said.
Chinese foreign officials confirmed on Saturday that a test
flight by a civilian plane landed on an artificial island built in the
Spratlys, the first time Beijing has used a runway in the area.
Vietnam launched a formal diplomatic protest while
Philippine foreign department spokesman Charles Jose said Manila was planning
to do the same. Both have claims to the area that overlap with China.
“That’s the fear, that China will be able take control of
the disputed sea lane and it will affect the “Freedom of Navigation and Freedom
of over flight,” Jose told reporters in Manila.
UN moves to defuse Saudi-Iran tension-
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon calls on Tehran, Riyadh to
avoid escalating riff, oil price.
UNITED NATION (PNA/PTI/REUTERS) – United Nations (UN) chief
Ban Ki-moon has asked Saudi Arabia and Iran to avoid actions that could further
escalate tensions even as he stressed that the break in Riyadh’s diplomatic
ties with Tehran was deeply worrisome International Community.
As this developed, Iran wants to avoid an oil price war in
global market with rival producers and only gradually lift exports once
sanctions against it lifted, senior official said, in what would be a major
shift away from planning to ship as much fuel as soon as possible.
Iran, which has some of the world’s biggest petroleum
reserves, has repeatedly urged fellow members within the Organization of the
Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) to make room for a supply jump from the
Islamic Republic, pledging to ramp up exports as soon as sanctions on its oil
industry are lifted under a nuclear deal with world powers.
At the same time, Japanese Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida
and US Secretary of State John Kerry held talks over the phone on Wednesday,
agreeing to seek to resolve tensions between Saudi Arabia and Iran through
dialogue.
Secretary-General Ban phoned Saudi Foreign Minister Abel bin
Ahmed Al-Jubeir and Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif to urge them
to avoid “avoid any actions that could further exacerbate the situation,” his
spokesman Stephane Dujarric said.
OPEC alarmed over the over-supply of the oil in the
international markets and also low price. oil prices are near 11- year lows
below $37 per barrel and some analyst like Goldman Sachs say price may tumble
as low as $20 as supply keep rising.
Elementary analysis, “The law of supply and demand
miscalculated by OPEC”, it need a thourough review economic books by the OPEC
officials to sharpen their mind setting.
This rising tension in the Middle East and Southeast Asia
will surely create global economic disorder and instability, internayional
community must acts now, not just to wait and see as spectators in sport arena.
By: Abs Damahan
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