Philippine congressmen on Thursday asked visiting lawmakers from the European Union (EU) not to tie Manila’s tariff privileges from the world’s largest trading block to the country’s human rights situation. READ:
“Do not dangle to us the carrot then afterwards if you do not like our answers you’re going to [punish] us with a stick,” Manila Rep. Bienvenido M. Abante, Jr. told reporters after the meeting.
“We need places where we can export at preferential rates at an advantage compared with our Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership partners,” he said in a statement. “The GSP+ regime is one of those advantages.” The meeting took place amid a probe by the International Criminal Court of the government’s deadly drug war.
At a separate meeting with the EU delegates, minority congressmen “highlighted the cases of women and children,” Assistant Minority Leader and Party-list Rep. Arlene D. Brosas told reporters in Filipino. “We are fixing the justice system,” he told reporters in Filipino after the meeting. “If the ICC really has a problem that they want to investigate, they should let us handle it since these are crimes committed in the Philippines by Filipinos.”
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