US Security Expert and Foreign Policy Specialist visits the Philippine Public Safety College
Ambassador Charles Salmon, Foreign Policy Advisor of the Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies and noted specialist, recently visited the Philippine Public Safety College (PPSC).
 Ambassador Salmon was the guest of honor and speaker at the Symposium attended by student officers from the Police, Fire and Jail Bureaus who are taking up the Public Safety Officers Senior Executive Course (PSOSEC) at PPSC.
Other attendees are officers and staff of the PPSC Head Office, Training Directors of the PPSC Constitutive Units, cadets of the Philippine National Police Academy, and students from the National Forensic Science Training Institute (NFSTI) who are taking up the specialized courses on Crime, Narcotics, and Traffic Investigation.
According to Undersecretary Margarita ‘Tingting’ Cojuangco, PPSC president, the Symposium in PPSC was part of Ambassador Salmon’s itinerary in his Manila visit. He was also a speaker on the topic “U.S. Policy on the Global Campaign Against Terrorism” during the second and third weeks of December 9-15, 2004.
During his visit to manila, Ambassador Salmon gave three separate lectures at the University of the Philippines Center for Asian Studies, the National Defense College of the Philippines, and the University of Asia and the Pacific.
A specialist with extensive experience in the Philippines and throughout the Asia-pacific region, Ambassador Salmon shared analysis and insights with a variety of groups, including the academic community, journalists, policymakers from government, members of the military and representatives of the influential business sector and civil society.
In addressing domestic Philippine and regional security concerns, Ambassador Salmon responded to a myriad of questions, on issues such as the Korean peninsula standoff, China-Taiwan relations, separatist movements in Indonesia, and the Kashmir conflict between Pakistan and India. Ambassador Salmon stressed that despite the events of September 11, the fundamental security constellation in the Asia-pacific region remains intact. Also, he repeatedly noted how pleased he was to see bilateral relations doing so well in the post-Cold War, post-U.S. bases era.
The Ambassador also reached out to policymakers while meeting senior officials of the Department of national Defense, National Security Council, the Armed Forces of the Philippines and the Philippine National Police as well as the senior staff members of the Philippine Senate. In addition, he met with members of the diplomatic corps from Cambodia, Thailand, and Indonesia, who participated in a roundtable discussion hosted by the National Security Council.
Appearing live on “Online” and “Strictly Politics” Ambassador Salmon condemned the atrocities committed by Osama Bin Laden and the Taliban, a group that he considers to exposure a perversion of Islam while being totally alienated from the civilized world. Ambassador Salmon was also interviewed online at the “Pinoy Central” website, which allowed him to engage in a question and answer session with “chatters” located in the Philippines and Abroad.
Ambassador Salmon’s visit coincided with that of a delegation of the American Council of Young Political Leaders (ACYPL), which was meeting with counterparts in the Philippines, the National Movement for Young Legislators (NMYL). Each organization was founded with the goals of developing the budding leaders of today into a pool of competent, committed and dedicated leaders of tomorrow. In order to share ideas while allowing participants maximum exposure to democratic institutions, and relationships between ACYPL and NMYL was established in 1995.
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