However, Foreign Affairs Secretary Perfecto Yasay has brushed off Duterte’s comments, saying they were a “statement expressing profound disappointment and frustration”.
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MALACAÑANG has denounced the United Nations’ (UN) recent statements that attributed the drug-related extrajudicial killings to the Philippine government.
“If you are that rude, we might just as well leave”.
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.
‘Repercussions? I do not give shit to them, they are the ones interfering.
The Philippines will not be looking to withdraw from the United Nations, the country’s foreign minister has said, following a foul-mouth tirade by its leader Rodrigo Duterte in which he called the global body the “son of a whore”.
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte threatened to withdraw his country from the United Nations in his latest outburst against critics of his anti-drugs campaign.
“Directives of this nature are irresponsible in the extreme and amount to incitement to violence and killing, a crime under worldwide law”.
Duterte previously called for people in Philippine slums to kill neighbors who were suspected of being drug addicts – a line which his aides said was never meant to be taken literally.
Nearly 600 suspected drug peddlers and users have already lost their lives in extrajudicial killings since Duterte came to the power six weeks ago.
The Philippine Foreign Ministry has clarified the country is not leaving the United Nations, a day after President Rodrigo Duterte threatened to quit the worldwide organization.
“The problem (with the UN) is that it allows a war to start, but does not know how to end it”, he said, referring to conflicts in Iraq and Syria.
Marissa Resido, a mother of six from the Tondo slums, told Sky News that her husband Rolando was a meth user, and was killed by police hours after they took him away to “surrender”.
“What do you think the Americans did to the black people there?”
The Philippine Human Rights Commission said autopsies carried on and a man and his son showed they had suffered broken limbs before being shot three times. Senator de Lima denied the allegations and said the president was seeking to intimidate his critics and prevent scrutiny of the crackdown.
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He said police were also investigating 1,067 drug-related killings outside normal police work, and the latest figures had been compiled since July 1.
