PHILIPPINES: THE PHILIPPINES AND BRITAIN SIGN HISTORIC AGREEMENT TO CRACK DOWN ON VISITING PAEDOPHILES.

Record ID: 646687

  • Title: PHILIPPINES: THE PHILIPPINES AND BRITAIN SIGN HISTORIC AGREEMENT TO CRACK DOWN ON VISITING PAEDOPHILES.
  • Date: 30th August 1997
  • Summary: MANILA, PHILIPPINES (RTV(A) - ACCESS ALL) (AUGUST 30, 1997) 1. SV: BRITISH FOREIGN SECRETARY ROBIN COOK SHAKING HANDS WITH STREET CHILDREN/ CHILDREN (2 SHOTS) 0.10 2. MCU: CUTAWAY OF THE PRESS 0.12 3. GV: WIDEVIEW COOK TALKING TO CHILDREN/ COOK WITH CHILDREN (2 SHOTS) 0.26 4. LV: WIDEVIEW OF STREET CHILDREN'S HOME 0.29 5. GV/MV: WIDE VIEW OF STREET CHILDREN SINGING AND DANCING/ CHILDREN DANCING (2 SHOTS) 0.39 6. CU: COOK WATCHING BESIDE SOCIAL WELFARE SECRETARY LINE LAIGO 0.41 7. GV: REVERSE VIEW OF CHILDREN SINGING 0.45 8. MV: MEDIUM OF CHILDREN 0.49 9. GV: WIDEVIEW OF SIGNING 0.51 10. GV/MV: PANNING VIEW OF SIGNING BY PHILIPPINE POLICE DIRECTOR GENERAL RECARDEDO SARMIENTO AND BRITISH AMBASSADOR ADRIAN THORPE AS ROBIN COOK WATCHES/ CUTAWAY/ HANDSHAKE BETWEEN SARMIENTO AND THORPE THEN EXCHANGE OF DOCUMENTS (3 SHOTS) 1.11 (RTV) (FILE - 11 OCTOBER 1996) 11. CU/TILT: CLOSE-UP HANDCUFFS PAN UP TO CONVICTED PAEDOPHILE MICHAEL CLARKE'S FACE (2 SHOTS) 1.22 12. CU/TILT: CLOSE UP OF HANDCUFFED HANDS, PAN UP TO FACE OF CONVICTED PAEDOPHILE STEVEN MITCHELL 1.26 MANILA, PHILIPPINES (RTV(A)) (AUGUST 30, 1997) 13. CU: ROBIN COOK SAYING, "WE ARE DEEPLY TROUBLED THAT TWO OF THOSE WHO HAVE BEEN CONVICTED ARE FROM BRITAIN. WE'RE DETERMINED THAT THERE WILL NOT BE A TOURIST TRADE IN THE EXPLOITATION OF CHILDREN AND THAT'S WHY ACTUALLY WE DID COOPERATE WITH THE LOCAL POLICE AUTHORITIES TO MAKE SURE WE COULD BRING JUSTICE TO THOSE WHO COMMIT OFFENCES" (ENGLISH) 1.47 14. SV: CHILD PAN TO ROBIN COOK 1.54 15. MV: OTHER CHILDREN 1.58 16. GV: WIDE SHOT OF SARMIENTO SEATED WITH COOK AND THORPE 2.01 17. CU: POLICE CHIEF RECAREDO SARMIENTO SAYING "I WANT TO ASSURE EVERYBODY OF THE PHILIPPINE NATIONAL POLICE COMMITMENT TO SEE TO IT THAT RESULTS WILL BE PRODUCED. NOT ONLY TO OUR MUTUAL SATISFACTION BUT TO THE MORE IMPORTANT, SAFETY OF OUR WOMEN AND CHILDREN" (ENGLISH) 2.20 18. GV: SAIZON AND COOK WALKING 2.27 19. GV/CU: COOK AND SIAZON SEATED PRIOR TO MEETING/ PRESS (4 SHOTS) 2.39 20. GV/MV: COOK AND SAIZON SIGNING AGREEMENT/ HANDSHAKE (3 SHOTS) 2.59 21. GV: WIDE VIEW OF MEETING VENUE IN MALACANANG PALACE 3.06 22. GV: COOK AND THORPE WAITING FOR PHILIPPINE PRESIDENT FIDEL RAMOS 3.13 23. SV: PRESIDENT RAMOS WITH SIAZON WALKING IN, THEN SHAKES HANDS WITH COOK 3.39 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved.
  • Embargoed: 14th September 1997 13:00
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  • Location: MANILA, PHILIPPINES
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  • Country: Phillippines
  • Reuters ID: LVA9P8166M0GQY15ORUXDX43YDE
  • Story Text: INTRO: The Philippines and Britain have agreed on three historic joint measures to crack down on foreign nationals who travel to the Southeast Asian nation to have sex with children.

    -------------------------------------------------------------------- Visiting British Foreign Secretary Robin Cook said in Manila on Saturday (August 30) that the sexual abuse of children is an unforgiveable crime and the British government is determined that there must not be a tourist trade in the exploitation of children.

    The United Nations estimates that there are 60,000 child prostitutes in the Philippines, where there are considerable levels of incest and sexual abuse in certain communities with families selling their children into the sex trade.

    Two of the three foreigners convicted of child sex abuse in the Philippines have been British, although local officials say most foreign paedophiles come from Australia and Japan - some on specially organised sex tours.

    Philippine officials say that they have had some success in stemming the trade over the last 18 months since they started a policy of prosecuting foreign paedophiles rather than merely deporting them.

    Under a joint agreement reached by Britain and the Philippines, police forces from both countries will increase cooperation and the exchange of intelligence on known and suspected paedophiles.

    Robin Cook signed a joint memorandum with PhilippinesForeign Secretary Domingo Siazon on combating child abuse after visiting a centre for abandoned and abused children in central Manila.

    Cook, in Southeast Asia to improve bilateral ties and stress the importance of human rights, said he was delighted that he and Siazon had agreed on a fundamental set of rights.

    Cook's message did not go down well in Malaysia where it was asserted that each nation has the right to solve its own problems.

    And during a meeting in Indonesia on Friday (August 29) Cook offered Jakarta assistance in improving its human rights records with Indonesia responding by insisting that human rights must not be linked in any way to trade or aid.


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