After meeting with some 1,000 members of the Filipino community at the Yokohama Futaba High School, President Aquino told reporters yesterday that he had a chance to talk to Obama in one of the meetings of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation leaders’ summit here.

He said Obama promised to look into his concern and even asked for “kind consideration” of the people in countries affected by travel advisories.

“I was able to mention to President Obama our fears over the travel advisory from the United States and he promised that he would look into it. He also sought understanding since his fellowmen were being targeted,” the President said.

“We only asked that we be treated fairly like other countries that had worse (terror attacks) but were issued lower alert levels,” Aquino said.

On Saturday morning, the President also met with Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper who granted the President’s request to review their procedure before issuing travel warnings that affect the country’s tourism promotion program.

Aurea Calica, Philippine Star