Mr Duterte told reporters. You must be respectful.
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The White House said in a statement that USA programs in Laos had helped slash UXO casualties from 300 to less than 50 a year and the additional funding would be used for a “comprehensive UXO survey of Laos and for continued clearing operations”. It’s certainly not every day that you hear a sitting president say the words “son of a whore”. “I think that it is a very significant move, and it will move us forward very quickly”.
The President even named some drug lords in the country and had asked them to surrender to authorities.
Mr Duterte said he regretted that his comments “came across as a personal attack” on Mr Obama.
“I believe the United States has a moral obligation to help Laos heal”.
Duterte made the comments before arriving here that night for the Association of Southeast Asian Nations Summit.
“Who is he? I am the president of a sovereign state and we have long ceased to be a colony”, Duterte said.
“Our primary intention is to chart an independent foreign policy while promoting closer ties with all nations, especially the USA, with which we have a long standing partnership”, he said in a statement.
The figure announced during President Barack Obama’s first visit to Laos is close to the $100 million the United States has spent in the past 20 years on clearing its UXO in Laos.
“Japan rarely if ever comments on human rights concerns in the Philippines, and has had excellent relations with Duterte, who during his days as mayor of Davao was a huge supporter of Japanese investments”, Heydarian said. At first, he did not show me anything.
Then in June he approved the killing of journalists.
But according to a draft of the final statement ASEAN is scheduled to release on Thursday, the region’s leaders will express strong concern about Beijing’s construction of man-made islands in the South China Sea, which Southeast Asian countries fear could destabilize the region.
Before he was elected, Duterte promised he would allow regular citizens to take up arms and kill any drug dealers they found.
Thousands of alleged criminals have been killed.
“The remnants of war continue to shatter lives here in Laos”, Obama said.
Obama’s project to shift US diplomatic and military resources from the Middle East to Asia has been dubbed his Asia pivot. Nearly 1400 were killed by vigilantes in the same period. “When I saw what had happened, I didn’t want to live anymore”, a man severely burned by a bomb told CNN.
With just four months left in office and eying his legacy, Mr. Obama used the moment to reassert his aims.
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte is sorry he insulted President Obama – sort of.
“Maybe we’ll just have to decide to separate from the United Nations”, Duterte said.
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He said he could persuade China and African nations to form their own UN-style body.
