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| The Philippines may withdraw from the International Criminal Court, says President Rodrigo Duterte | |
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| Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte has said he might follow Russia's step to withdraw from the International Criminal Court (ICC). | |
| Mr Duterte railed against the United States and other Western nations, which have criticised him for a rash of killings unleashed by his war on drugs. | |
| He also said that if Russia and China were to create a “new order” then the Philippines would be the first to join it in comments ahead of his departure for Lima to attend an Asia-Pacific summit. | |
| "The International Criminal Court is useless. Russia withdrew, I might follow," said the President, according to local news website Rappler. | |
| Russian leader Vladimir Putin signed an order to withdraw his country's signature from the ICC's founding treaty on Wednesday. | |
| He may have been "emboldened" to do so by the election of Donald Trump, the director of the Centre on Conflict, Rights and Justice at SOAS, University of London has said. | |
| “The ICC is holding an event now in the Hague, there have been three African withdrawals and on the heels of that we have the election of a US President who is not going to be supportive,” Dr Leslie Vinjamuri told The Independent. | |
| “Russia’s a little bit emboldened by the election of Trump.” | |
| Additional reporting from Reuters |