Obama canceled a planned meeting over the insults, but later briefly met with Mr. Duterte on the sidelines of a regional summit in Laos, urging him to conduct his crime war “the right way”.
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To further emphasize, she quoted an excerpt from ‘To the Person Sitting in Darkness”, Mark twain’s essay on the “paradox of the “democratising mission”‘ to the Philippines – ‘There is something curious about this – curious and unaccountable.
“I do not have any master except the Filipino people, nobody but nobody”.
He said the theme under the Philippine’s chairmanship is an extension of his own campaign slogan and now his administration’s battle-cry – “partnering for change, engaging work with your help mga kababayan kong (my countrymen) who support the ASEAN member states, and dialogue partners, we hope to bring the change we want”. You must be respectful.
Mr. Duterte admitted uttering “son of a bitch”, but said it was “not in relation to Obama”. Do not just throw questions. “Putang Ina, I will swear at you at that forum”, he added, using the Tagalog phrase for “son of a b****”.
“I was ready (for Obama)”.
Obama canceled a meeting with Mr. Duterte after the firebrand leader unleashed a barrage of criticism of the USA president, saying he would not be lectured about human rights over his crackdown on narcotics, which has seen police and shadowy assassins kill almost 3,000 people.
On Monday, Duterte had said that he would not take any question from Obama regarding the extrajudicial killings in Philippines, which have occurred ever since he won the presidential elections in June.
On Friday, Duterte slammed Ki-moon for raising the issue of human rights in the Philippines before the summit in Laos.
Washington recently expressed concern over the killings but Duterte, in typical fashion, later dismissed this and lashed out at USA ambassador to the Philippines, labelling him a “gay son of a whore”.
Mr. Duterte has called Pope Francis a “son of a bitch” for causing traffic jams in Manila during his visit to the Philippines previous year.
“I do not care about him”. “Also gave a statement before, several weeks ago, about human rights violation”.
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At the same time, he said he was accepting the apology of News5 anchor Ed Lingao, who read a breaking news item that erroneously said Duterte called Obama “bastos” (rude).
