Imee Marcos urges gov't: Cut diplomatic ties with Iceland

Amid a looming UN rights body probe that Iceland set into motion to inquire into the government's war on drugs,  Senator Imee Marcos on Saturday urged the government to “cut diplomatic ties, ASAP” with the Nordic Island nation.

“A strong statement is in order that the values and political agenda of other countries, many of them developed countries like Iceland, cannot be imposed on an independent country like the Philippines,” Marcos said, noting that not even half of the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) members voted in favor of the resolution.

She was referring to Iceland's resolution to investigate the human rights situation in the Philippines under the war on drugs.

She pointed out that of the UNHRC's 47 members, 18 voted in favor of the resolution, 14 against, while 15 abstained.

Marcos also scored the “state-sponsored abortion” of developed countries that showed their “distorted values and double-standard morality.”

“They point a finger at the Philippines for alleged human rights violations, yet they justify the killing of defenseless, unborn children,” Marcos said.

“Other countries cannot presume to know better how we should enforce our own drug laws,” she added.

Earlier this week, the UNHRC voted for a probe into thousands of killings in President Rodrigo Duterte's "war on drugs."

A resolution, led by Iceland, was adopted at the forum in Geneva by a vote of 18 countries in favor and 14 against, including China, with 15 abstentions, including Japan. —LBG, GMA News