Department of Foreign Affairs(DFA)

Hello, I would like to request for document collections housed at the DFA Archives. Specifically requested are documents related on the Philippines' diplomatic relationships with South Korea and Japan, produced between 1945 to 1991. Topics of concerned documents include:

- Establishment of diplomatic relationships (with South Korea and Japan)
- Treaty of Peace (with Japan)
- Economic and trade relationships
- High-level visits including state visits by leaders
- Establishment of the Asian Development Bank
- Philippines' involvement in the Korean War (decision regarding dispatchment and withdrawal of troops from Korea during and after the war)

Below list include titles of the requested documents:

1. Trade agreement between the government of the Republic of the Philippines and the government of the Republic of Korea (24-Feb-1961)

2. Report of the first meeting of the Korea-Philippines joint committee on trade (25-Feb-1965)

3. Joint communique on the third meeting of the Philippines-Korea Joint Committee on trade (4-Oct-1966)

4. Cultural agreement between the government of the Republic of the Philippines and the government of the Republic of Korea (8-Aug-1970)

5. Kasunduang pangkalinangan ng pamahalaan ng Republika ng Pilipinas at ng pamahalaan ng Korea (20-Aug-1970)

6. Agreement of economic and technical cooperation between the government of the Republic of the Philippines and the government of Korea (3-Feb-1983)

7. Declaration - Treaty of Peace - Japan recognizes the full force of all presently effective multilateral international instruments to which Japan was a party on Sept 1, 1939, and declares that it will, on the first coming into force of the said Treaty, resume all its rights and obligations render those instruments. (11-Oct-1947)

8. Treaty of peace with Japan (2pcs) (8-Sep-1951)

9. Declaration concerning the Treaty of Peace (8-Sep-1951)

10. Protocol on the provisions for regulating the question of contracts, periods of prescription and negotiable instruments, and the question of contracts of insurance, upon the restoration of peace with Japan (8-Sep-1951)

11. Agreement between the Supreme Commander for the allied powers, the government of the Republic of the Philippines and the government of Japan for the transfer of assumption of rights , obligations and interest in the open accounts established by the financial agreement between the Republic of the Philippines and the supreme commander for the allied powers acting in respect of occupied Japan - Tokyo, Japan : 19 March 1952 (19-Mar-1952)

12. Interim agreement on reparations concerning salvage of sunken vessels between the Republic of the Philippines and Japan (12-Mar-1953)

13. Protocol on the exercise of criminal jurisdiction over United Nations forces in Japan (26-Oct-1953)

14. Protocol for the provisional implementation of the agreement regarding the status of the United Nations forces in Japan (19-Feb-1954)

15. Reparations agreement between Japan and the Republic of the Philippines (9-May-1956)

16. Treaty of amity, commerce and navigation between the Republic of the Philippines and Japan (9-Dec-1960)

17. The appointment of plenipotentiaries of Japan for concluding a treaty of amity, commerce and navigation between Japan and the Republic of the Philippines (9-Dec-1960)

18. Agreement between the government of the Republic of the Philippines and the government of Japan concerning the establishment of technological and development center for small-scale industries (29-Sep-1966)

19. Agreement for the exchange of international money orders between the Republic of the Philippines and Japan (26-Jun-1968)

20. Joint communique on the occasion of the state visit to Japan of His Excellency Ferdinand E. Marcos, President of the President of the Republic of the Philippines and Mrs. Imelda R. Marcos (28-Apr-1977)

21. (Revised working draft, 14 July 1978) - Treaty of Amity, commerce and navigation between Japan and the Republic of the Philippines (Preamble) (14-Jul-1978)

22. Treaty of amity, commerce and navigation between the Republic of the Philippines and Japan (10-May-1979)

23. Exchange of notes between the Republic of the Philippines and the government of Japan for the purpose of contributing to the increase of food production in the Philippines (9-Jan-1980)

24. Basic agreement of scientific and technological cooperation between the government of the Republic of the Philippines and the government of the Republic of Korea (7-Jul-1981)

25. Agreement between the Asian Development Bank and the government of the Republic of the Philippines regarding the headquarters of the Asian Development Bank (22-Dec-1966)

26. Memorandum of understanding relating to the agreement establishing the Asian Development Bank and the headquarters agreement (12-Apr-1993)

27. Any documents on the Philippines' involvement in the Korean War (decision regarding dispatchment and withdrawal of troops from Korea during and after the war)

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