Administrative Order No. 125, May 12, 1965

CREATING THE PHILIPPINE PANEL TO THE RP-US JOINT VETERANS COMMISSION CHARGED WITH THE SETTLEMENT OF THE OMNIBUS CLAIMS OF THE REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES AGAINST THE UNITED STATES

Pursuant to the powers vested in me by law, I, DIOSDADO MACAPAGAL, President of the Philippines, do hereby create the Philippine Panel, which shall take up with its United States counterpart in the RP-US Joint Veterans Commission the Omnibus Claims of the Republic of the Philippines against the United States arising from World War II, to be composed of the following:

General Carlos P. Romulo	Chairman
Secretary Macario Peralta, Jr.	Vice Chairman
Senator Rodolfo Ganzon	Member
Representative Ramon Bagatsing	Member
Undersecretary Librado Cayco	Member
Ambassador Eduardo Quintero	Member
PVB Chairman Simeon Medalla	Member

The Philippine Panel shall be guided by the findings and recommendations of the Cabinet Veterans Affairs Committee in the conduct of its preparatory work and the actual discussions with the United States Panel. For this purpose, it is hereby authorized to engage the services of Technical Assistants and other persons needed for the successful negotiation of the Omnibus Claims of the Republic of the Philippines.

Done in the City of Manila, this 12th day of May, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and sixty-five.

(Sgd.) DIOSDADO MACAPAGAL

President of the Philippines

By the President:

(Sgd.) RAMON A. DIAZ

Executive Secretary