Sotto echoes Locsin view on Philippine ties: If he says we stay, we stay

Credit to Author: jvicente| Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2019 02:34:30 +0000

Sotto echoes Locsin view on Philippine ties: If he says we stay, we stay

Senator Tito Sotto echoed DFA Secretary Teddyboy Locsin’s stand that the Philippines will not cut ties with any country. 

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Palace: UNHRC resolution on PH drug war probe ‘an abuse’

Credit to Author: acerojano| Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2019 11:46:29 +0000

Palace: UNHRC resolution on PH drug war probe 'an abuse'

Malacañang slammed as an “abuse of United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) processes” the Iceland-led resolution that would probe the human rights situation in the Philippines.

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Palace: UN probe on Duterte drug war is clearly an ‘interference’

Credit to Author: acerojano| Date: Fri, 05 Jul 2019 09:56:49 +0000

Palace: UN probe on Duterte drug war is clearly an ‘interference’

Malacañang maintained Friday that any investigation of the United Nations on President Duterte’s drug war would be interference in Philippine sovereignty.

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Palace to UNHRC: We have been proactive in looking at HR abuses

Malacañang insisted on Saturday that government does not need to be called out to investigate the country’s human rights situation as it has been proactive in looking into cases of abuses particularly on its war on drugs. Sought for comment regarding the recent call by the United Nations Human Rights Council against the government, Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque said that the government has been doing its job on the issue of human rights.

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