{"id":157700,"date":"2018-03-21T03:13:08","date_gmt":"2018-03-21T07:13:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=157700"},"modified":"2018-03-21T13:13:21","modified_gmt":"2018-03-21T17:13:21","slug":"russia-respects-ph-withdrawal-from-icc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/03\/21\/russia-respects-ph-withdrawal-from-icc\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia respects PH withdrawal from ICC"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Nov.<\/a>
FILE: Nov. 15, 2016 \u2013 President Rodrigo Roa Duterte meets with Russian Ambassador to the Philippines Igor Khovaev (PCOO photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

While critics slammed President Rodrigo Duterte’s decision to withdraw the Philippines from the International Criminal Court (ICC), he gained Russia as an ally in this decision.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor us, we deeply respect it,\u201d Russian Ambassador to Manila Igor Khovaev said in an interview with ANC on March 21.<\/p>\n

According to Khovaev, the ICC in their assessment is not a judicial board, with all its activities being \u201chighly politicized.\u201d Furthermore, he said that through this, they put political pressure on selective governments or countries. While Russia is a signatory, their government did not ratify the treaty.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe cannot accept [that] certain approach that\u2019s why my country decided to withdraw from their Rome Statute,\u201dhe said.<\/p>\n

United Nations (UN) created the Rome Statute in 1998 which established the ICC.\u00a0 According to the treaty, the ICC is a permanent institution that shall have the power to exercise its jurisdiction over persons for the most serious crimes of international concern.<\/p>\n

\u201cI fully understand why your country took the same decision but as I have just explained, it\u2019s up to the Philippine society to make comments, to make assessments, to make steps in this decision,\u201d the ambassador added.<\/p>\n

On another note, Molly Koscina, the press attach\u00e9 of the United States (US) Embassy in Manila confirmed that the US is not a signatory of the Rome Statute, but is a partner with the court for upholding core American values like human rights, transparency, and rule of law.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s important to cooperate, to work with the ICC. We\u2019re aware that President Duterte made this call but we\u2019re also aware it takes about a year for the withdraw to take effect, so there are many opportunities for greater conversations,\u201d Koscina added, in an interview with ANC.<\/p>\n

However, she refused to comment on the Duterte administration\u2019s invitation of other signatories to withdraw, saying that it is an \u2018internal decision.\u2019<\/p>\n

Last week, Duterte through a statement, announced his decision to withdraw the Philippines from the Rome Statute.<\/p>\n

(Read: Duterte withdraws PH from ICC<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

While critics slammed President Rodrigo Duterte’s decision to withdraw the Philippines from the International Criminal Court (ICC), he gained Russia …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":157704,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1145,16,95],"tags":[28359,31251,2444,48275,512,10176],"class_list":["post-157700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headline","category-news","category-news-ph","tag-igor-khovaev","tag-molly-koscina","tag-rodrigo-duterte","tag-rome-statute","tag-russia","tag-united-states-of-america","mauthors-bea-kirstein-t-manalaysay","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157700","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=157700"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157700\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/157704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}