Duterte ‘seriously’ thinking about cutting ties with Iceland —Palace

President Rodrigo Duterte is thinking about cutting the Philippines' diplomatic ties with Iceland, his spokesman said on Monday night.

"Sabi niya ho sa akin eh, 'Siya nga pala. I want to vent my ire on Iceland'," Panelo said at the 80th anniversary of radio station dzRH.

"Tell the public I’m considering seriously cutting diplomatic ties with Iceland,” he quoted Duterte as saying.

It was Iceland that pushed the draft resolution calling for an investigation of the thousands of killings blamed on Duterte's war on drugs.

The United Nations Human Rights Council last week adopted the resolution, which also called on the Philippines to put a stop to the spate of extrajudicial slays.

The resolution was adopted by a vote of 18 countries in favor, 14 against (including China), with 15 abstentions (including Japan) at the 47-member forum in Geneva, Switzerland.

Iceland has no crime problem

Duterte in a speech last week said that Iceland seemed to have no issues as regards peace and order.

"Ano ang problema ng Iceland? Ice lang. That’s your problem. You have too much ice and there is no clear day or night there. Parang alas kwatro ng hapon ang araw pati gabi," Duterte said in a speech at the 28th anniversary of the Bureau of Jail Management and Penology in Camp Aguinaldo, Quezon City.

"So you can understand why there is no crime, there is no policemen either and they just go about eating ice," he added.

He said the critics of the war on drugs did not have a full grasp of the social, economic and political problems of the Philippines.

"Hindi maintindihan nitong mga p— inang 'to na may problema tayo," the President said The distribution of drugs, the contamination continues today. At hindi na natin mahabol." —NB, GMA News