“The Philippines affirms its arbitral victory against China in the South China Sea dispute before the United Nations General Assembly.”
What Vera Files found
President Duterte's statement contradicted that of his top diplomat Teodoro Locsin Jr., who earlier strongly opposed raising the arbitral win in the UN. Duterte's stance in the UN speech also contradicted his own past pronouncements on the arbitral award, which he previously said he would "ignore" in order to pursue economic activities with China.
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In short
Rodrigo Duterte made this claim around 22 September 2020. Vera Files (Philippines) looked into it and published its finding on 29 September 2020, 7 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/statement-of-president-rodrigo-roa-duterte-during…
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