Sotto echoed Palace spokesman Salvador Panelo’s support for Foreign Secretary Teodoro Locsin, who said last week that the Philippines should withdraw from the UN Human Rights Council after it approved a resolution calling for a full report on the human rights situation in the Philippines.
The decision to cut diplomatic ties with the proponent of the UN Human Rights Council resolution calling for a probe into the war on drugs, lies ultimately with President Rodrigo Duterte, said Palace spokesman Salvador Panelo.
In the UN Human Rights Council, the Philippines is now lumped together with some of the world’s worst human rights violators, writes Manny Mogato, our editor-at-large.
Pressed on whether the Palace would back moves to impeach Robredo, spokesman Salvador Panelo said: ‘There are better things to do.’
‘It doesn’t say the Philippines signed. Show me where it says that or show me the document,’ Secretary Locsin tweeted, in reaction to a story that 37 states backed Beijing on the detention of Muslims and Uighurs.