Malacañang expressed its strong objection to the resolution of Iceland which was favored by 17 other countries during the 41st session of the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC), that according to Presidential Spokesman Salvador Panelo, “the same being based on false information and unverified facts and figures.”
Panelo said, the propriety of the resolution as well as its validity is questionable and the subject resolution not only was not unanimously adopted, but it didn’t even get a simple majority of the 47 countries.
“The voting is not decisive in its favor. Only 18 countries out of the 47 member-countries voted for the resolution. A simple majority would have been 24. This means that majority of the members are not really convinced of the resolution calling for the investigation of the so-called extra-judicial killings in our country,” Panelo said.
The Palace official believed that the other 17 countries of the resolution have been misled by Iceland, “which in turn was led astray by the continuing and relentless false news, published by a few biased media in the country and elsewhere.”
According to Panelo, the voting also shows the resolution did not get the unanimous approval of the member countries, nor did it get the nod of the 29 other countries.
Panelo asserte that the resolution is grotesquely one-sided, outrageously narrow, and maliciously partisan.
“It reeks of nauseating politics completely devoid of respect for the sovereignty of our country, even as it is bereft of the gruesome realities of the drug menace in the country.”
