It is to our advantage that Philippine negotiators did not take any strong position [on mode IV]; we have no advantage so why open it up?

When you open up mode four to include migrant workers of all types, I do not think it will benefit us as we are already there.

What other countries like India want is to liberalize [mode IV to include] other workers in general, but if you open that up, competition will become bigger, from India, from Eastern Europe.

In the first place, our people are already all over the world long before GATS [was framed]. On the other hand there is demand on so many countries for Filipino workers, from the highly skilled...