Palasyo sa UNHRC chief: Respeto naman

Hiniling ng Malacañang kay United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) chief Prince of Jordan Zeid Ra’ad al-Husein na respetuhin ang Pilipinas kasunod ng kanyang pahayag na kailangang isailalim si Pangulong Duterte psychiatric evaluation.

Nitong linggo, inirekomenda ni UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid na magpa-psychiatric check si Duterte matapos ang mga tirade ng Pangulo laban kay UN Special Rapporteur on Extrajudicial Killings (EJKs) Agnes Callamard, at ang pag-ugnay kay UN Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (IDPs) Victoria Tauli-Corpuz sa mga terorista.

“It makes one believe that the president of the Philippines needs to submit himself to some sort of psychiatric evaluation,” sabi ni Zeid sa isang panayam sa Geneva, Swit- zerland nitong Biyernes.

Sa press briefing sa Alimodian, Iloilo.

“The language used by the high commissioner is uncalled for. I’m very tempted to respond in similar language but I have opted to restrain myself, opting not to respond in the same ad hominem used by the UN High Commissioner,” pahayag ni Roque sa press briefing sa Alimodian,

Iloilo nitong Sabado ng hapon. “I will reiterate, however, that such language directed against a democratically elected head of a UN member country is uncalled for and is of course an affront on the sovereignty of the Republic of the Philippines,” dagdag niya.

Hiniling din ng Palace official kay Zeid na respetuhin ang demokratikong sistema ng bansa kahit ang Jordan ay hindi demokratikong bansa dahil ang kanyang pananalita ay isang insulto sa bansang may inihalal na tagapamuno.

“I will, however, state that perhaps the UN high commissioner’s language is because of the fact that they have no democracy in his own state of Jordan. Jordan’s leader is not elected unlike our president,” aniya.

“And so my message to the High Commissioner is, we respect our President in our country because we gave him a democratic mandate to lead. And I would hope that even though you don’t have the same democratic system in your home country of Jordan, you will respect the kind of democracy that we have in the Philippines,” dagdag niya.

“Your language was not just an insult to the Philippines and the Filipino people, it is an insult to all countries who have democratically elected their heads of states,” dugtong ni Roque.