Philippine leader urges nations to quit international tribunal
MANILA — Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte urged other governments Sunday to abandon the International Criminal Court, saying the world tribunal — where he’s facing a possible complaint for the thousands of killings of drug suspects under his crackdown — is “rude.”
Although the Philippine Senate has ratified the Rome Statute that established the court, Duterte said in a speech that the treaty was never valid in his country because it was not published in a government journal as required by law. As a result, Duterte said the international court can never have jurisdiction over him, “not in a million years.