Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte said on Thursday his country was ready to join a new world order, should it be established by Russia and China.
“If China and Russia will decide to create a new order, I will be the first to join,” Duterte said in remarks broadcast by CNN Philippines.
He said Philippines could follow in Russia’s footsteps by withdrawing from the International Criminal Court (ICC) and join a new world order if it were established by Russia and China.
“They (Russians) may have thought the International Criminal Court is (useless), so they withdrew their membership.”
“I might follow. Why? Because these shameless bullies only picked on small countries like us.”
The Philippines is among 124 countries that are members of the UN-backed ICC, the world’s only permanent war crimes court.
Duterte also repeated an earlier threat to pull the Philippines out of the UN, saying the world body had failed to stop wars that had killed thousands of women and children.
Duterte won May elections in a landslide after vowing an unprecedented crackdown on illegal drugs and killing tens of thousands of drug dealers.
However he has been under harsh criticism over his crackdown on drug dealers.
Source: Agencies
