MANILA - Foreign Affairs Secretary Teodoro Locsin Jr.
said the government was rejecting the United Nations Human Rights Council resolution seeking an investigation into the human rights situation in the Philippines.
"Western countries pushed for this resolution in the confidence that the world has forgotten what they did and what should have been done to them had there been a Human Rights Council. It was pushed with the arrogance that developing countries must not stand up to them even if we can and as we hereby do. There will be consequences," Locsin added.
United Nations Human Rights Council on Thursday adopted a resolution seeking an investigation into the human rights situation in the Philippines, including alleged extrajudicial killings in government's drug war. For Locsin, the adoption of the resolution was not a victory for human rights but "a travesty travesty of them that should honor the character of the author and co-sponsors of the resolution."
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