The Department of Justice said it is preparing a legal briefer to give President Marcos options in connection with the International Criminal Court, including the possibility of allowing ICC prosecutors into the country as well as the steps to take should arrest warrants be issued against Filipinos, including on former President Rodrigo Duterte.
“That’s something that will have to be confidential for now because these discussions and legal analysis are only for the eyes of the President until he chooses a direction or he has a decision, then it will have to be kept confidential,” he said. In 2019, the Philippines, under then-President Duterte, withdrew from the Rome Statute, the treaty that established the ICC, after the tribunal began a probe into his bloody drug war, followed by a formal inquiry in September 2021.
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