Philippines' Duterte to VP: keep state secrets or lose your 'drugs tsar' post

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The warning came a few days after Duterte offered Leni Robredo a lead role in his brutal war on drugs, which she accepted.

MANILA - Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte threatened to remove the vice president from her"drugs tsar" post if she shared state secrets with foreign individuals and entities.

"Revealing State secrets to foreign individuals and entities as well as welcoming those who have trampled the country's sovereignty would be damaging to the welfare of the Filipino people," presidential spokesman Salvador Panelo said in a statement on Sunday. Human rights experts at home and abroad are incensed by thousands of deaths in what police say were sting operations that resulted in shootouts.

Robredo met with the officials from United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime , community-based advocacy groups and U.S. Embassy last week to discuss the drug problem, which she has said must be tackled from a health and social perspective, including prevention and treatment rather than a largely police-centred approach.

 

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