President Rodrigo Duterte might have hurled profanity- laced tirades against the United Nations and threatened to pull out of the organization in the past but the Philippines will not follow the United States’ move to withdraw from the UN Human Rights Council, Malacañang said. Presidential spokesperson Harry Roque Jr. said Malacañang respects the decision of the US as the US announced it was leaving the rights body, with Ambassador Nikki Haley calling it “an organization that is not worthy of its name.” Trump’s envoy to the UN also lambasted the council for “its chronic bias against Israel.” UN and its officials have often been on the receiving end of the acid-tongue Duterte’s ire for their criticisms of the country’s human rights situation, particularly the administration’s bloody war on drugs.