“It was very successful, very productive, and very long,” according to Senate President Aquilino “Koko” Pimentel III who led the six-man Senate delegation to the NSC meeting which lasted for five hours. With the successful NSC meeting, Recto is expecting the Legislative-Executive Development Advisory Council (LEDAC), which was mothballed in the past six years, can be revived as productive forum to discuss government policies. ”The NSC meeting was historic in that for the first time, five presidents met in an extraordinary show of goodwill and unity to discuss defense and security issues facing the nation. He (President Duterte) can be focused one moment and funny the next. “To break the monotony of long meetings, yesterday was almost five hours long, he has this comedian’s gift of timing on when to crack jokes.

Source: Manila Bulletin July 28, 2016 16:07 UTC