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<\/p>\nPhilippine President Rodrigo Duterte told Barack Obama he never called him a \u201cson of a bitch\u201d, he said , but maintained a defiant stance on his war on drugs, saying UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon was a fool for bringing up human rights.<\/p>\n
U.S. President Obama cancelled a planned meeting with Mr. Duterte at this week\u2019s ASEAN summit in Laos after the Philippine leader\u2019s alleged insult in his native Tagalog, but the two met briefly later as they waited to take their seats at a banquet.<\/p>\n
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On a visit to the Indonesian capital on Friday<\/span><\/span>, Mr. Duterte told a group of Filipinos that the slur was not directed at the U.S. President and that he had told him so. \u201cI was ready [for Obama]. I was waiting for Obama to respond. Lawyer to lawyer, we are both lawyers anyway… I said I never made the statement. Check it out… I said that, but not in relation to Obama,\u201d he said. \u201cI’m not fighting with America.\u201d<\/p>\n Duterte \u00a0said he thought UN Secretary-General Ban a fool for bringing up the issue of human rights violations weeks before the summit in Laos. \u201cEven Ban Ki-moon weighed in,\u201d Mr. Duterte said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte told Barack Obama he never called him a \u201cson of a bitch\u201d, he said , but maintained a defiant stance on his war on drugs, saying UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon was a fool for bringing up human rights. U.S. President Obama cancelled a planned meeting with Mr. Duterte at this week\u2019s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11674,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,2],"tags":[4758,4291,4734,4735,4759],"class_list":["post-11672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-politicalnews","category-top-stories","tag-ban-ki-moon-is-a-fool","tag-barack-obama","tag-philippine","tag-president-rodrigo-duterte","tag-un-secretary-general-ban-ki-moon"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/558799-banpresser.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11672","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11672"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11672\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Obama and Duterte shook hands and had a brief chat on Wednesday<\/span><\/span>, officials said, easing the standoff. Mr. Duterte had his outburst on Monday<\/span><\/span> when he was defending his war on drugs that has killed at least 2,400 Filipinos.<\/div>\n