Asserts PH has no legal obligation to cooperate with ICC

The Office of the Solicitor General — the legal representative of the Philippine Government, its agencies and officials in any litigation — firmly declared that it is under no legal obligation to cooperate with the International Criminal Court (ICC) or recognize any proceedings originating from it post-withdrawal from the Rome Statute.

There seem to be more juicy bits beyond Interior and Local Government Secretary Jonvic Remulla's revelations during recent media interviews.

It was explosive enough to say that the Office of the President chartered the silver Gulfstream jet with tail number RP-C5219 to transport former president Rodrigo Roas Duterte to the International Criminal Court in The Hague, Netherlands.

This came a few days after President Ferdinand Marcos Jr.’s late-night press briefing, minutes after the plane in which the former President was forcibly whisked into left.

This was how former Executive Secretary Salvador Medialdea described former President Rodrigo Roa Duterte’s arrest over murder allegations and transport to The Hague, Netherlands, on March 11.

In his manifestation during Duterte’s initial appearance before the International Criminal Court on Friday night (Manila time), Medialdea, one of the former’s lawyers, did not mince words in saying that “the whole world witnessed the degrading fashion in which a former president of a sovereign country was bundled onto a private aircraft and summarily transported to The Hague.”