MANILA, Philippines — House Speaker Lord Allan Velasco believes President Rodrigo Duterte’s recent remarks denigrating the 2016 ruling by the international arbitral tribunal in The Hague, which favored the Philippines in its maritime dispute with China over the West Philippine Sea, were “borne out of frustration.”
Duterte on Wednesday said that the victory of the Philippines over China at the Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague is just a “piece of paper” to be thrown away.
“I believe that PRRD’s sentiments about the matter were already made clear during his speech before the United Nations General Assembly, where his audience …
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