Then we can start on our own. I can go to Russian Federation. I will write them a letter to invite them for an investigation.
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On Thursday, President Duterte said that he is willing to engage in talks with China to resolve the issue and remarked “I am willing to talk. Despite the ongoing conflict in the South China Sea all the ten ASEAN countries are on good terms with Beijing and their leaders see closer ties with China as key to solving their countries’ economic and social problems”, Professor Shen said.
Standard and Poor’s maintained its stable outlook for the country that has had one of the strongest performing economies in Asia in recent years but warned the killings “could undermine respect for rule of law and human rights through the direct challenges it presents to the legitimacy of the judiciary, media and other democratic institutions”.
More than 3,000 drug suspects have been killed by police and unknown assailants since President Duterte launched a take-no-prisoners war on drugs upon assuming office on June 30.
“The President and his counterpart will be able to set the direction and specific activities to be pursued in line with the vision of the joint statement on the establishment of strategic partnership between the Republic of the Philippines and the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, which was signed in Manila in November 2015”, the DFA spokesperson said. I am inviting the EU. “Even the [UN] rapporteurs, come to the Philippines”, he said while opening a power plant on Mindanao.
But in keeping with the time-honoured principle of the right to be heard, I will grill them after they are finished making theirs, the President said.
Duterte, 71, overwhelmingly won election in May on the ambitious promise of eradicating corruption and crime, particularly illegal drugs, in six months.
Mr Duterte’s supporters in Parliament have accused her of taking money from drug lords while she was justice minister, which she denies.
Tuazon argued that the Philippines’ longstanding dependence on the United States and Japan had been to the “detriment of the country’s economic and political interests”.
The president is planning a trip to China amid tensions over Beijing’s aggressive claim to nearly all the strategic and resource-rich waters of the South China Sea.
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The U.S. has been conducting “freedom of navigation” operations near disputed islands and reefs – moves Beijing has called “provocative”.
