Philippine president threatens to leave the UN

However, Mr Duterte’s foreign minister Perfecto Yasay today said the Philippines would remain a United Nations member and described the President’s comments as expressions of “profound disappointment and frustration”.

The Palace official said President Duterte was just explaining to the United Nations that the Philippines can handle its investigation on the alleged extra judicial killings involving vigilante groups.

Police chiefs have admitted they are responsible for the deaths of some 600 drugs suspects since July, with local media suggesting the true number could easily be more than 1,000 when vigilante killings are taken into account.

Duterte even said that he might as well form a rival organisation with China and other African nations.

“I admit many are dying but our campaign, now… we have momentum”, he said.

Mr Duterte has sanctioned the killing of traffickers in a belligerent bid to destroy the country’s rampant drugs trade, including promising medals to any member of the public who shoots a drug dealer. You do not go out and give a shitting statement against a country’.

Two UN human rights experts said in a statement that drug-trafficking offences should be judged in a court of law, not by gunmen on the streets.

Making no mention of the mentioning the worldwide body’s poverty reduction programs and natural disaster relief efforts following typhoons that hit the archipelago nation, Duterte said the president said the UN had done nothing for the Philippines.

Presidential Spokesman Ernesto Abella also clarified on Monday morning that the country will not be leaving the UN.

“Simply because we are able to handle our own investigation”, Abella replied when asked why the President considers the United Nations statement as meddling to the government’s efforts to solve illegal drug problem. “Is that stupid body complaining about the stench there of death”.

“Why are you Americans killing the black people there, shooting them down when they are already on the ground?” he asked in response to a journalist’s question.

‘Repercussions? I do not give shit to them, they are the ones interfering. Police were also investigating 1,067 drug-related killings outside police work, Dela Rosa said.

Duterte, a former state prosecutor, has been hypersensitive to criticism of his anti-drugs campaign and accused de Lima last week of having an affair with her driver, who allegedly collected protection money from detained drug lords when she was still the justice secretary.