[5] During the run-up to the People Power Revolution in 1986, staff members of the Embassy announced that they would support Corazon Aquino as president following the results of that year's presidential election, although Consul General Aladin Villacorte, who was the mission's second-in-command at the time, declined to state the position of Ambassador Jose Plana on the matter.

[7] Purchased by the Philippine government in 1968 during the ambassadorship of Delfin R. Garcia, the three-story French eclectic-style townhouse along Laan Copes van Cattenburch has 13 rooms, a basement and a parking area in the rear.

[9] A comprehensive renovation of the Chancery was undertaken in late 2021 to early 2022 during the term of Ambassador Malaya, following the guidelines of The Hague’s heritage building office Monumentenzorg Den Haag.

It preserved the building’s numerous heritage elements which included a front facade made of brick with a high panel door with stained glass windows, and a main entrance featuring rich neo-Louis XVI style carvings and brass knobs.

[16] The Philippine Embassy in The Hague is headed by Ambassador Jose Eduardo E. Malaya III, who was appointed to the position by President Rodrigo Duterte on September 18, 2020.

[17] Prior to his current post, Malaya, a career diplomat, served as Undersecretary for Administration of the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA),[18] and prior to that headed the Philippine Embassy in Kuala Lumpur as ambassador to Malaysia, where he and two other officials were awarded the Gawad Mabini in 2016 for setting up alternative learning centers for Filipinos and other migrant children in Sabah.