After many times of missed opportunities to meet, finally the President of the Philippines Rodrigo Duterte met the United Nations Secretary General Ban ki-moon at the ASEAN Gala Dinner on Thursday.
The United Nations Secretary condemned the alleged extrajudicial killings happening under President Duterte’s watch.
President of the Philippines criticised them for failing to act in Syria bombings and threatened to leave the UN because of the UN’s criticism against his war against drugs.
The photo taken by the palace saw President Duterte and Ban-ki Moon shaking hands in their first meeting.
Palace photo shows President Duterte and UN chief Ban Ki-moon shaking hands pic.twitter.com/g4O1B6VH6Q
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In the past days, President Duterte declined the invitation of UN Secretary General to a meeting because of a conflict of schedule and recently the Filipino President missed another chance to meet Moon in the ASEAN-UN meeting.
Duterte tried to catch the meeting, but the Secretary General already leaves before Duterte came.
