Nasa bansa na ang karamihan sa mga “world leader” kasama ang kani – kanilang delegado para dumalo sa 31st ASEAN summit na gagapin simula bukas November 13.
Sunud – sunod na dumating sina Laos Prime Minister Thongloun Sisoulith, Indonesian President Joko Widodo ; Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak ; Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong; New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern; Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau; Thailand Prime Minister Prayut Chan-O-Cha, Australia Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull at Vietnam Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc.
Sinundo ang mga nasabing head of state ng ilan sa miyembro ng gabinete at opisyal ng pamahalaan na sina Energy Secretary Alfonso Cusi , Agriculture Sec. Manny Piniol, DILG OIC Catalino Cuy , DPWH Sec. Mark Villar , DOST Sec. Fortunato Dela Peña, Presidential Secretary on the Peace Process Jesus Dureza , Pampanga Gov. Lilia Pineda , political adviser Francis Tolentino ,
Samantala , hindi naman pinayagan ang media na i – cover ang pagdating sa NAIA nina Brunei Darussalam Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah; Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe; Republic of Korea President Moon Jae-In; European Council President Donald Tusk at Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev dahil sa isyu ng seguridad.
