MANILA, Philippines — Philippine authorities will not serve a warrant of arrest against Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) founder Joma Sison in the premises of the country’s embassy in the Netherlands because of limited resources and since it would only create an “international spectacle,” Foreign Affairs Secretary Teodoro Locsin Jr. said Wednesday.
“If I may, I would like to issue a provisional answer which is to say ‘no.’ I will not enforce that warrant of arrest in an embassy abroad. I think there are practical considerations for that,” Locsin said.
“I think that if I were to enforce that and arrest him considering the limited resources we have in all our embassies …
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