“President Rodrigo Duterte says the Philippines' historic arbitral win in July 2016 against China on the South China Sea dispute is "just a (piece of) paper" that he would "throw into the wastebasket.”
What Vera Files found
In his speech at the 75th session of the United Nations General Assembly in September 2020, Duterte "firmly reject(ed)" attempts to "undermine" the ruling of the Permanent Court of Arbitration. He declared that the arbitral court's award "is now part of international law, beyond compromise and beyond the reach of passing governments to dilute, diminish, or abandon."
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Rodrigo Duterte (President of the Philippines) made this claim around 5 May 2021. Vera Files (Philippines) looked into it and published its finding on 10 May 2021, 5 days later. Its rating was “Flip-flop”.
Rodrigo Duterte has 126 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 46 of them false or fake, 78 misleading or mixed and 0 true.
Where the claim appeared
- pcoo.gov.phhttps://pcoo.gov.ph/presidential-speech/talk-to-the-people-of-president-rodrigo-roa-duter…
- pcoo.gov.phhttps://pcoo.gov.ph/presidential-speech/statement-of-president-rodrigo-roa-duterte-during…
- Post on Xhttps://twitter.com/DFAPHL/status/1390612377737908228/photo/1
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