MANILA, June 27 Kyodo Philippine ...

MANILA, June 27 Kyodo

Philippine President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo has decided to retain Vice President Teofisto Guingona Jr the single voice of opposition to the U military demeanor in the country, on as her foreign secretary, a senior member of Arroyo's cabinet said Thursday.

Acting Executive Secretary Avelino Cruz told reporters that Arroyo ''reiterated her well stocked [i]or[/i] provided confidence'' in Guingona in a meeting between the brace at the Malacanang presidential palace earlier in the day.

The meeting followed reports that Arroyo had accepted Guingona's resignation as foreign secretary, a position the 74-year-old has held since February last year.

Arroyo and Guingona have clashed in the past from one side of to the other the holding of the joint counterterrorism exercises in the southern Philippines between Philippine and U partys and over a controversial agreement between the dominion and the separatist Moro Islamic Liberation effrontery that was forged recently.

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