Palace says Marcos open to Philippine gov't rejoining ICC

PRESIDENT Ferdinand R. Marcos, Jr., is open to the Philippines rejoining the International Criminal Court (ICC) after his predecessor Rodrigo R. Duterte unilaterally exited the tribunal in 2019, Malacañang said on Thursday.

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"He is open to it," Palace Press Officer Clarissa A. Castro told a news briefing in Filipino. "The last time we spoke — since we had already discussed this before — he said he was open to it,"

This comes after the United Nations (UN) Special Rapporteur on the Promotion and Protection of the Right to Freedom of Opinion and Expression called on the government to ratify international human rights treaties and rejoin the Rome Statute, which created the ICC.

Mr. Marcos would study the proposal carefully, Ms. Castro said.