Duterte first gained notoriety as the tough-on-crime mayor of Davao City. “But perhaps we’ll only need to determine to split in the United Nations”, he said.
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He said President Duterte’s statement on Sunday was a mere “statement expressing profound disappointments and frustrations and it is not any statement that should indicate a threat to leave the United Nations”.
“Look at the iconic boy that was taken out from the rubble and he was made to sit in the ambulance and we saw it”, Duterte said, referring to the photo of a 5-year-old Syrian boy, Omran Daqneesh, that has gone viral online. “You have done nothing anyway”, he said. When were you here last time?
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte, however, remains unfazed by the growing criticism and repeatedly says that the fight against drugs will be relentless and will be sustained.
Two UN human rights experts last week urged Manila to stop the extra-judicial executions and killings that have escalated since Duterte won the Presidency.
U.N. President Ban Ki Moon had also criticised the killings endorsed by the Philippines government and called them “extrajudicial”.
Still, Duterte’s police chief Ronald Dela Rosa said yesterday law enforcers would not be deterred and the campaign was just starting.
Before assuming office on May 9, Duterte had promised citizens to free Philippines from the drug menace if they voted for him.
He then appeared to threaten the Philippines would leave the U.N., saying “if you are that rude, we might just as well leave”, adding that he would invite other nations, including China and African countries, to form a new global organization.
“We call on the Philippines authorities to adopt with immediate effect the necessary measures to protect all persons from targeted killings and extrajudicial executions”, the report said.
“This is all the matter of explaining, as a sovereign nation, we can not be meddled with”, he was quoted as saying by the state-run Philippine News Agency. “It will number in the thousands”, Duterte said in a press conference on Sunday.
“The President has said, that a number may have been “salvaged” or killed by vigilantes, or by mistake and therefore has tasked the NAPOLCOM (National Police Commission) to investigate the ranks of the national police”.
“You (the UN) are inutile”.
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On Sunday morning Duterte said the United Nations had done nothing for the Philippines – ignoring its poverty reduction programmes and enormous help following typhoons and other natural disasters – as he continued to curse it.
