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Philippines won’t quit UN rights council or sever ties with Iceland despite Duterte’s threat: Locsin

Published on: Tuesday 16 July 2019

Philippines won’t quit UN rights council or sever ties with Iceland despite Duterte’s threat: Locsin Foreign Affairs Secretary Teodoro Locsin Jr said the country would stay in the UN Human Rights Council but directed scathing criticism at Iceland for moving a vote to investigate President Rodrigo Duterte’s war on drugs.


News source: https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/southeast-asia/article/3018770/philippines-will-not-leave-un-human-rights-commission

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