The Ambassador’s performance was in the form of a poetry recital, featuring self-composed verses in the Ambassador’s mother tongue Cebuano, along with translations in English. The Embassy arranged for the PH to be featured prominently in the main cultural program to showcase the languages spoken in the Philippines and promote Philippine poetry.

The main Cultural program also featured performances from Indonesia, Denmark, Bangladesh, Malaysia, Sri Lanka, Netherlands, Bhutan, Australia, Italy, Colombia, Brunei, Japan, Egypt, Vietnam, France, Spain, India, and Nepal. END.

Ambassador Bandillo lays a wreath at the Shaheed Minar Monument commemorating the martyrs of Bangladesh’s 1952 Language Movement.