By Prince Golez
Malacañang on Tuesday welcomed the latest Supreme Court (SC) decision dismissing the petition that questioned President Rodrigo Duterte’s move to withdraw the Philippines from the International Criminal Court (ICC).
Duterte’s mouthpiece Harry Roque said the high court ruling, which dismissed the petition for being “moot and academic,” acknowledged that the President is the chief architect of the country’s foreign policy.
“Having said this, we call on the ICC not to waste time and resources on investigations that will not prosper,” said Roque.
He added that the administration does not recognize ICC jurisdiction over the Philippines and that domestic legal and judicial processes function normally in the Philippines.
In March 2018, Duterte announced that he was withdrawing the country‘s ratification of the Rome Statute, a month after ICC Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda initiated preliminary investigations into the country’s war on drugs due to reported incidents of extrajudicial killings.
The Rome Statute was the legal basis for the foundation of the ICC in 2002.
Source: Latest Politics News Today (Politics.com.ph)
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