{"id":182529,"date":"2018-09-22T22:12:41","date_gmt":"2018-09-23T02:12:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=182529"},"modified":"2018-09-22T22:13:04","modified_gmt":"2018-09-23T02:13:04","slug":"duterte-slams-eu-intl-governing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/09\/22\/duterte-slams-eu-intl-governing\/","title":{"rendered":"Duterte slams EU for \u2018int’l governing\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"
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President Rodrigo Roa Duterte, in his speech during the 3rd Inflammatory Bowel Disease Clinical Forum of the Asia Pacific Association of Gastroenterology (APAGE) at Shangri-La\u2019s Mactan Resort and Spa in Lapu-Lapu City, Cebu on September 21, 2018, reiterates that one of the priorities of his administration is to improve the health care services of the country. ROBINSON NI\u00d1AL JR.\/PRESIDENTIAL PHOTO<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0— President Rodrigo Duterte took a swipe at the European Union (EU) anew, claiming that it is into “international governing\u201d by criticizing his crackdown on illegal drugs.<\/p>\n

\u201cWho are you to run my country? That\u2019s the problem with the European Union. They are into international governing,\u201d Duterte said during the Asia Pacific Association of Gastroenterology forum in Lapu-Lapu City, Cebu on Friday.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey create an ICC (International Criminal Court), European community and they try to impose their values and the way they think how criminal is categorized and classified and want to impose it,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

Duterte also lambasted the ICC for trying to send him to prison for human rights violations in relation to alleged extrajudicial killings during his term as mayor of Davao City.<\/p>\n

The President has repeatedly defended his war on drugs, noting that police personnel killing criminals in their line of duty is not considered crime against humanity.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey want to send me to prison and try me for genocide. It was not for a — it\u2019s nothing for a race or\u2026 They\u2019re bunch of criminals. They cannot even show me how they died? When did they die? Where? Nothing,\u201d Duterte said.<\/p>\n

Last March, Duterte announced that he has decided to withdraw the Philippines\u2019 ratification of the Rome Statute, a United Nations (UN) treaty creating the ICC.<\/p>\n

This, after the ICC Office of the Prosecutor bared in February that it would begin preliminary examination on the crimes against humanity linked to the administration\u2019s drug war.<\/p>\n

Duterte has insisted that the ICC has no jurisdiction over him and cited \u201cbaseless, unprecedented and outrageous attacks\u201d as reasons to withdraw as a state party.<\/p>\n

Malaca\u00f1ang, however, noted that ICC can still proceed with its preliminary examination despite the withdrawal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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