{"id":19716,"date":"2017-08-02T08:59:50","date_gmt":"2017-08-02T00:59:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/?p=19716"},"modified":"2017-08-02T16:57:02","modified_gmt":"2017-08-02T08:57:02","slug":"french-envoy-to-ph-bids-the-country-adieux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/2017\/08\/02\/french-envoy-to-ph-bids-the-country-adieux\/","title":{"rendered":"French envoy to PH bids the country adieux"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-19718\" src=\"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2017\/08\/1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"641\" srcset=\"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2017\/08\/1.jpg 960w, https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2017\/08\/1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2017\/08\/1-768x513.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\"><em>FINAL TOAST. It may or may not be his last toast in the country, but here&#8217;s H.E. Thierry Mathou leading this year&#8217;s celebration of Bastille Day in the Philippines with Executive Secretary Salvador Medialdea.\/IMAGE\u00a0Embassy of France to the Philippines and Micronesia<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The Filipino community will be seeing less of French Ambassador to the Philippines Thierry Mathou as he bids farewell to the country he has called his home since September of 2015.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">French Amb Thierry Mathou bids farewell to the Philippines as he begins his new mission in Paris! Congrats &amp; best wishes, Mr. Ambassador! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/KHO2muJeTl\">pic.twitter.com\/KHO2muJeTl<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; France in the PH \ud83c\uddeb\ud83c\uddf7\ud83c\uddf5\ud83c\udded (@FrenchEmbassyPH) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FrenchEmbassyPH\/status\/892320813663174656?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 1, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Mathou left the country last July 28 for Paris to assume his new post as the Director for Asia and Oceania at France&#8217;s Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs. He thanked everyone he has met and worked with in the Philippines.<\/p>\n<p>He said he is excited for the opportunity given to him, but also leaves the country \u201cwith many regrets after two years in the Philippines.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/FrenchEmbassyManila\/videos\/1567891846575621\/<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is an exceptional country, very different from what I&#8217;ve experienced elsewhere in Asia but where I learned a lot,\u201d he said in his goodbye video posted on the French Embassy\u2019s Facebook and Twitter accounts.<\/p>\n<p>All may not be lost, however, as he hopes he gets to visit the country in the future. \u201cI will probably have the opportunity to come back to the Philippines,\u201d Mathou said towards the end of his message.<\/p>\n<p>His sudden departure was met with a lot of thanks from both Filipinos and the local French community.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\"><em>Written by: Andronico Del Rosario<br \/>\nImage source:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/FrenchEmbassyManila\/photos\/a.1554036827961123.1073741905.203295633035256\/1554037111294428\/?type=3&amp;theater\" target=\"_blank\">Embassy of France to the Philippines and Micronesia<\/a><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adieux and Merci, Ambassador Thierry Mathou!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":19717,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-current-events"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2017\/08\/featured-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19716","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19716"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19716\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19721,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19716\/revisions\/19721"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}