Last
week former foreign secretary Alberto del Rosario and former Ombudsman
Conchita Carpio-Morales filed a complaint against Chinese President Xi
Jinping for “crimes against humanity” in the International Criminal
Court.
While,
many are of the opinion the case will not prosper in any way because China is
not a party to the International Criminal Court (ICC) so jurisdiction will not
attach.
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| Presidential Spokesperson Atty. Salvador Panelo, inset are the artificial islands constructed by China (photo credit to owner) |
Even
opposition senator Risa Hontiveros did not let the issue pass when he slammed
President Duterte, stating the President
is "unwilling and unable to undertake" his job for Philippine
sovereigntyand us Filipinos against China. It took del Rosario and Morales to do the job because they have the balls to stand up against China, all of which should have been done by the sitting president.
Why only now Del Rosario?
Atty.
Salvador Panelo who is also serving as the Chief Presidential Counsel asked the
former DFA Secretary, why he did’nt bring up the issue when he was still the
Foreign Affairs secretary.
Panelo
said, he is currently gathering evidence to prove that Del Rosario was
reluctant to “rock the boat” when he was still at the helm of the Department of
Foreign Affairs (DFA).
“That’s
why I told my source, I need documents; I need communications from your group
to DFA; I need pictures that you have given them; I need official response
coming from Del Rosario. Because if that is true, then… that is wrong,” he added.
Panelo
questions, Del Rosario why the government then allowed the structures to be
built by China before the arbitration complaint.
“Why
did you not act back then? Why are you moving now that you are no longer in the
(government) when (back then) you could have made protests, made noise?” he
asked.
Del Rosario rebuts Panelo
The
former foreign secretary rebuts Panelo in a statement he forwarded to the
Philippine Star.
“For
the information of the good secretary, we officially protested as many times as
possible the building of unlawful structures (the DFA records would evidence
this). We also voiced out our objections at multilateral meetings battling for
inclusion in final statements. We furthermore sought the assistance of our
treaty ally,” the statement said.
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