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Duterte blasts Washington in front of new U.S. envoy
Dec 20 2016
President Rodrigo Duterte on Monday night lambasted the U.S. government in front of Washington's new envoy Sung Kim.
"You the United States were here, they were lord over it for 50 years and live up with the fat of the land. But there they went out, it’s still, it was still a unitary type. And to hear them say, ‘we will cut your aid if these things happen again.’ Go on, shut up, shut up," Duterte said in his speech during the Presidential awards to outstanding government workers.
The U.S. is withdrawing aid to the Philippines but Duterte says he will get aid from China instead.
"I do not need your assistance, challenge —Millennium Challenge, 400 million? China is going to release to me 50 billion. Go home, I do not need your aid," he said.
He also told the U.S. to be careful in addressing other countries, especially those from Asia. "You know, you should careful with Orientals. They just don’t know how to treat themselves. When you tie the...When there is a, you say we will not give you because of this. You are pictured, it is a Visayan idiom, I don’t know if you can understand 'patay gutom'. Patay gutom is a you're dead because you're hungry. We don’t care if you are dead because your—of starvation. It’s actually is slur. Do not…If you are dealing with Asians, with due respect to the Ambassador of United States. You are dealing with Asians, be careful of your language. You could not do that to the Japanese and to the Koreans and to the…They feel insulted."
Duterte said complaints about possible human rights violations should be filed at the United Nations.
"Why do have to say, ‘we will cut your aid.’ Just say outright, please stop or this…We are members of the United Nations, correct? Okay. You guys put your complaint there for the violations of the lost souls. Then whatever happens there, the Human Rights Commission can conduct an investigation. Then if there is --- our findings, then go ahead and present it to plenary and then they come to me and say confront me, what is this. But just to say, you come to here to investigate me and to talk to me, no," he said.
"It’s actually at the end of the day, I would say to you, it is dignity. Just because there are human rights violations, you do not say that you will never have the aid. We do not need it. Bakit sabihin mo pa? (Why do you have to say it?) ‘Mr. Duterte, if this thing continues, you’ll lose the assistance.’ It is actually an insult. So I hope that we can understand each other here and you guys."
The U.S. embassy in Manila has yet to comment on Duterte's latest outburst.
A U.S. agency earlier said it has deferred the selection of the Philippines for a second funding grant amid concerns on the country’s human rights situation.
The Millennium Challenge Corporation said it has “deferred a vote on the re-selection of the Philippines for compact development, subject to a further review of concerns around rule of law and civil liberties.”
"This decision reflects the Board's significant concerns around rule of law and civil liberties in the Philippines," embassy spokeswoman Molly Koscina said in a statement emailed to AFP.
Dec 20 2016
President Rodrigo Duterte on Monday night lambasted the U.S. government in front of Washington's new envoy Sung Kim.
"You the United States were here, they were lord over it for 50 years and live up with the fat of the land. But there they went out, it’s still, it was still a unitary type. And to hear them say, ‘we will cut your aid if these things happen again.’ Go on, shut up, shut up," Duterte said in his speech during the Presidential awards to outstanding government workers.
The U.S. is withdrawing aid to the Philippines but Duterte says he will get aid from China instead.
"I do not need your assistance, challenge —Millennium Challenge, 400 million? China is going to release to me 50 billion. Go home, I do not need your aid," he said.
He also told the U.S. to be careful in addressing other countries, especially those from Asia. "You know, you should careful with Orientals. They just don’t know how to treat themselves. When you tie the...When there is a, you say we will not give you because of this. You are pictured, it is a Visayan idiom, I don’t know if you can understand 'patay gutom'. Patay gutom is a you're dead because you're hungry. We don’t care if you are dead because your—of starvation. It’s actually is slur. Do not…If you are dealing with Asians, with due respect to the Ambassador of United States. You are dealing with Asians, be careful of your language. You could not do that to the Japanese and to the Koreans and to the…They feel insulted."
Duterte said complaints about possible human rights violations should be filed at the United Nations.
"Why do have to say, ‘we will cut your aid.’ Just say outright, please stop or this…We are members of the United Nations, correct? Okay. You guys put your complaint there for the violations of the lost souls. Then whatever happens there, the Human Rights Commission can conduct an investigation. Then if there is --- our findings, then go ahead and present it to plenary and then they come to me and say confront me, what is this. But just to say, you come to here to investigate me and to talk to me, no," he said.
"It’s actually at the end of the day, I would say to you, it is dignity. Just because there are human rights violations, you do not say that you will never have the aid. We do not need it. Bakit sabihin mo pa? (Why do you have to say it?) ‘Mr. Duterte, if this thing continues, you’ll lose the assistance.’ It is actually an insult. So I hope that we can understand each other here and you guys."
The U.S. embassy in Manila has yet to comment on Duterte's latest outburst.
A U.S. agency earlier said it has deferred the selection of the Philippines for a second funding grant amid concerns on the country’s human rights situation.
The Millennium Challenge Corporation said it has “deferred a vote on the re-selection of the Philippines for compact development, subject to a further review of concerns around rule of law and civil liberties.”
"This decision reflects the Board's significant concerns around rule of law and civil liberties in the Philippines," embassy spokeswoman Molly Koscina said in a statement emailed to AFP.
