Metro Manila (24 Sept 2017) - "While drug addiction calls for rehabilitation, drug trafficking surely calls for stern measures. Though always consistent with the rule of law, the President has, and will always have zero tolerance for abusive cops, as time will show."
Thus, Philippine Foreign Affairs Secretary Alan Peter Cayetano boldly told the delegates to the 72th UN General Assembly in New York on his government's Anti-Drug War campaign.
He assured the foreign ministers of 192 member states that the Philippines will uphold human rights alongside ensuring Filipinos' security from threat posed by illegal drugs and crime.
The General Assembly is the main deliberative body of the United Nations. As opposed to the Security Council, which is exclusive and grants unique veto rights to five nations, the 192 member nations have membership and equal voting rights in the General Assembly.
"But accusation before investigation is not proof. Nor is it fair," Cayetano directed his speech to his government's critics.
"Abuses have occurred and mistakes have been made, tragic ones for sure," Cayetano confide.
"While one abuse is one too many, still the abuses are far less than the imaginary numbers of partisan accusers and publicity seekers."
"The drug trade has penetrated even law enforcement even the courts," Cayetano revealed.
"And yet we are getting a message that the best way to stop abuses in the anti-drug campaign is to stop the campaign and live with drugs instead."
"But we cannot live with drugs because drugs will not let us live. We can no more live with drugs than with terrorism, which, the United Nations admits, and as we have discovered is funded by the drug trade. This has created the new phenomenon of criminal insurgency."
Full text of Secretary Alan Peter Cayetano's speech is provided by the Philippine Mission to the United Nations.
Thus, Philippine Foreign Affairs Secretary Alan Peter Cayetano boldly told the delegates to the 72th UN General Assembly in New York on his government's Anti-Drug War campaign.
He assured the foreign ministers of 192 member states that the Philippines will uphold human rights alongside ensuring Filipinos' security from threat posed by illegal drugs and crime.
The General Assembly is the main deliberative body of the United Nations. As opposed to the Security Council, which is exclusive and grants unique veto rights to five nations, the 192 member nations have membership and equal voting rights in the General Assembly.
"But accusation before investigation is not proof. Nor is it fair," Cayetano directed his speech to his government's critics.
"Abuses have occurred and mistakes have been made, tragic ones for sure," Cayetano confide.
"While one abuse is one too many, still the abuses are far less than the imaginary numbers of partisan accusers and publicity seekers."
"The drug trade has penetrated even law enforcement even the courts," Cayetano revealed.
"And yet we are getting a message that the best way to stop abuses in the anti-drug campaign is to stop the campaign and live with drugs instead."
"But we cannot live with drugs because drugs will not let us live. We can no more live with drugs than with terrorism, which, the United Nations admits, and as we have discovered is funded by the drug trade. This has created the new phenomenon of criminal insurgency."
Full text of Secretary Alan Peter Cayetano's speech is provided by the Philippine Mission to the United Nations.
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