When journos celebrate Ambassador Lauro Baja Jr.

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It was a beautiful friendship that I carved with other diplomatic reporters at the Department of Foreign Affairs when I covered it in 1997 to 1998.

We came from different newspapers yet we managed to thrive as a solid force at the DFA Press Room.

But for us, diplomatic reporters, Ambassador Baja, who we still refer to as Usec Baja because he was an undersecretary when we covered him, was a good source for news articles. His no-nonsense one-liner was fodder for a three-page report. Usec Baja was among the few who spoke to me. He was assistant secretary for Aspac at the time and was a key figure in discussions about how to handle China’s growing adventurism in the South China Sea. He would return my calls even when he was overseas attending this or that conference.

 

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