{"id":269586,"date":"2020-09-23T04:30:10","date_gmt":"2020-09-23T08:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=269586"},"modified":"2025-01-07T04:53:59","modified_gmt":"2025-01-07T09:53:59","slug":"duterte-to-warring-nations-escalating-tensions-benefit-no-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2020\/09\/23\/duterte-to-warring-nations-escalating-tensions-benefit-no-one\/","title":{"rendered":"Duterte to warring nations: Escalating tensions benefit no one"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Duterte lamented how geopolitical tensions \u201ccontinue to rise\u201d during a time where \u201cstability and confidence\u201d is needed amid the prevailing coronavirus disease (Covid-19) pandemic. (File: ROBINSON NI\u00d1AL JR.\/PRESIDENTIAL PHOTO)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 There is a need for warring nations to deescalate tensions to prevent a nuclear war in the future, President Rodrigo Duterte said Wednesday.<\/p>\n

In his first speech before the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA), Duterte appealed to nations with interests in the South China Sea and other areas of conflict to deescalate tensions that tear people apart.<\/p>\n

\u201cEscalating tensions benefit no one. New flashpoints heighten fears and tend to tear peoples apart. When elephants fight, it is the grass that gets trampled flat,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Duterte lamented how geopolitical tensions \u201ccontinue to rise\u201d during a time where \u201cstability and confidence\u201d is needed amid the prevailing coronavirus disease (Covid-19) pandemic.<\/p>\n

\u201cI therefore call on the stakeholders in the South China Sea, the Korean Peninsula, the Middle East and Africa: if we cannot be friends as yet, then in God\u2019s name, let us not hate each other too much. I heard it once said, and I say it to myself in complete agreement,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

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He also warned of the grave consequences should a nuclear war take place.<\/p>\n

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\u201cGiven the size and military might of the contenders, we can only imagine and be aghast at the terrible toll on human life and property that shall be inflicted if the \u2018word war\u2019 deteriorates into a real war of nuclear weapons and missiles,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Duterte, meanwhile, announced that he had asked the Philippine Senate to ratify the UN-adopted nuclear ban treaty.<\/p>\n

\u201cI have asked the Philippine Senate to ratify the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. Importantly, we were among those to sign it first,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

He said \u201cthere is no aspiration nor ambition\u201d that can justify the use of weapons that destroy indiscriminately and completely.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThere is no excuse for deaths that a nuclear war could cause nor the reckless use of chemical and biological weapons that can cause mass destruction,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Duterte said weapons put people \u201cat mortal risk\u201d especially if they fall in the hands of terrorists.<\/p>\n

He also called on all member states to fully implement the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, and the Chemical and the Biological Weapons Conventions.<\/p>\n

In 2017, 122 UN member-states including the Philippines adopted the said treaty. There are currently 45 countries that have ratified the treaty.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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