“Every time he speaks, that opinion is confirmed”, Obama said.
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Outgoing President Barack Obama condemned Donald Trump as unsuitable to be commander-in-chief Thursday, after the Republican nominee blasted U.S. military brass and praised Vladimir Putin.
Obama said the partnership between the two countries should be consistent with the rule of law and global norms.
Since Duterte was sworn into office, the worldwide media coverage on the Philippines has increased primarily because of the extrajudicial killings related to the war on drugs.
Obamas remarks came at the end of a grueling nine-day trip that took him to Laos and China following US stops in Nevada, Hawaii and Midway Atoll in the Pacific Ocean.
However, the leaders later met briefly at the gathering in Laos, after Duterte expressed regret.
Mr Obama and Mr Duterte shook hands and had a brief chat on Wednesday, officials said, easing the standoff. Do not just throw away questions and statements.
Three days of back-to-back meetings as part of the 28th and 29th ASEAN summits in Vientiane have come to a close, with much of the spotlight directed at Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte, who will lead his country to become the next ASEAN chair in 2017.
Duterte’s choice of words seemed to be “a habit”, Obama added.
As he prepared to leave Laos, Obama also said he would continue to work to fulfill his campaign promise to close the Guantanamo Bay detention center, which he called a recruitment tool for terrorism.
He also said he showed a picture of an atrocity during the U.S. pacification campaign in the southern Philippines at the beginning of the last century at the East Asia Summit in Laos that included Mr Obama, in order to stop criticism over human rights violations in the war on illegal drugs.
Duterte was elected to office in a landslide this year after pledging to kill 100,000 people in an unprecedented war on crime. “And I’m very happy that it happened”, said Mr Yasay who traveled with President Duterte.
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Duterte has said the Philippines is in danger of becoming a “narco state”, and eliminating drugs in society is the top priority of his administration. The Department of Foreign Affairs in Manila said the president provided an explanation of how human rights records should be assessed in the context of the historical record.
