
Asked by Rappler if that then made Duterte’s statements okay, he said, “No, it’s not okay but what I mean is if a Filipino defends before an international tribunal what is the position of the Philippines, what is more important is what the President said before the United Nations, what the President said in his State of the Nation Address.”

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