00:00 Jurisdiction, sovereignty and respect first over the pursuit of justice.
00:04 And it's high time to redefine the country's association with the International Criminal
00:09 Court and completely disengage from all contact, cooperation and communication with them.
00:14 The blunt message of the President on his take on the ICC's latest decision to dismiss
00:20 the Philippine government's plea to suspend and/or end the ICC's probe on the thousands
00:26 of alleged extrajudicial slayings in the former administration's war against illegal drugs.
00:31 The President's decision came at the heels of advice by the nation's top attorney
00:36 to totally break away from the Rome Statute in light of an ICC's panel decision to proceed
00:42 with a probe in the hope of rounding up all those responsible for deaths in northern Mindanao.
00:47 Meanwhile, the President had no comment on the breakup and had no instructions to the
00:53 nation's top lawyer in the event a summons or arrest warrant is issued by the ICC.
