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Policy Statements 3 2017 Final.Indd POLICY STATEMENTS* May-June 2017 President Rodrigo Roa Duterte Republic of the Philippines * Policy Statements and Issuances are culled online from the speeches and issuances of the President posted at http://www.gov.ph/offi cial-gazette/ and www.rtvm.gov.ph EDITORIAL AND PRODUCTION BOARD Editor-in-Chief: Dr. John S. Manalili, CESO III Production Coordination Eileen Cruz-David Data Gathering Monica N. Ladisla Editing and Proofreading John S. Salvadora Regin Raymund D. Dais Graphic and Lay-out Design Raymond R. dela Rama Jhon Enrel S. Tan Table of Contents Good Governance: 1 Effectively Respond to Any Disaster, Anywhere in the Country Foreign Relations: 8 Realize a Drug-Free ASEAN Community Foreign Relations: 13 Constructive Engagement With the World Foreign Policy: 15 Chart an Independent Policy on Trade and Commerce Security, Peace and Justice: 42 Martial Law is Pragmatic in Restoring Order and Upholding Peace and Sovereignty in the Face of Terrorism Photo Gallery 45 Security, Peace and Justice: 62 Lift Martial Law When Equanimity and Stability of Community is Attained Security, Peace and Justice: 76 Fighting a Principled War for the Republic Against Rebellion and Terrorism While Maintaining Loyalty to the Constitution PRESIDENTIAL ISSUANCES Executive Orders 82 Proclamations 83 MAY-JUNE Good Governance: Effectively Respond to Any Disaster, Anywhere in the Country (Launching and Commissioning of the Philippine Red Cross Humanitarian Vessel “Amazing Grace”, Philippine Navy Headquarters, Manila, May 9, 2017) ormer President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo; Senate F President Aquilino Pimentel III; Secretary Paulyn Jean Rosell-Ubial; Secretary Benjamin Diokno and the members of the Cabinet; Senator Richard Gordon, the incoming President of the Republic of the Philippines. The donors of Red Cross might want to consider the man behind Red Cross. Members of the Senate and House of Representatives; offi cials, employees of the Philippine Red Cross; men and women of the Philippine Navy; fellow workers in government; honored guests; my beloved countrymen. You know, there are two persons I dread to be with if they are talking. One was, well, he was not able to hurdle the Commission on Appointments but… Well, he’s really bright, but… And every Cabinet meeting, I would be wondering what he’s saying. And second is… The diction is perfect. The voice is good, but the drawl, it’s not even American, it’s not Texan, it’s a little bit of an Ilocano ang pagsalita. No offense intended, Mr. President Gordon, but… You know, I come from a province and we seldom hear that kind of talk. Unless, there is a visiting American Navy or American tourist, I get to talk to them, and we are not quite adept in making out, especially if your hearing is not good, like me. 1 PS • 2017 I was whispering to the City Health Secretary, “Can you make out of what the guy is talking?” And he said, “He was talking about Red Cross.” “Oh, I know.” You talk with a fast… You talk fast and the drawl is distinctly Ilocano, parang… Well, I have a prepared speech. It’s about two pages and if we want to go home early, I can accommodate you. It will take about less than a minute. But I would like to share with you a very profound experience in my life. You know, we, local government offi cials, I, like Lito of Zamboanga, we have been… I have been mayor for the last 23 years in Davao before becoming a President. And we are not new to disasters, man-made or natural. And we deal with it almost every other day. There’s a fi re. You have to get up from bed, go to the fi re scene, then start mobilizing your men and you stay there until you are satisfi ed that everything is in place. That is how we live as local offi cials. We stare eyeball-to-eyeball with the human tragedy. But nothing can beat the November 8… Senator Gordon, ay President Gordon, corrected me I thought it was November 5 and it was November 8, 2013. I was really appalled that despite the fact that the warning came to us early and that it would be the most powerful typhoon so far in the century. But it’s not in the nonchalant attitude but many of our countrymen took it lightly. And when it hit Leyte and Samar, we were all ignorant of what was really happening. The towers were down and there 2 MAY-JUNE was no communication at all. I was able to get through and got the news from the military. You know wherever they are, they have this string that they can just — and communicate and the… I think it was the of that place, the guy who was assigned to Davao before called me and told me, “Sir, bagsak ang Tacloban.” Sabi ko, “Gaano kabagsak?” “How bad is it?” And I thought that naïveté was really… And I said, “How many died? 300? 200?” He said, “No, Sir, there are thousands around town lying and in decay.” So that was the following day. That night I mobilized 911 of Davao. Well, aside from… Second to Olongapo, I might be… First, Olongapo, fi rst. And I have the best 911, the most complete. So I mobilized 10 doctors, 10 nurses, all male and I told them, “Bring as many alcohol as you can because…” I said, “We are not foreigners, aliens to this kind of event.” So I fl ew by Cebu Pacifi c and took a chopper. And no offense intended to anyone. But when I look at the Gulf of Leyte, I could not see even one boat there in the water. There was no ship at all. And when I went down, the guy, I think he was a policeman assigned in the aviation, he has… I was carrying a bottled water, sinabi, “Sir, may tubig kayong dala?” And it dawned upon me that there was really a crisis. I could not see any ship, of any size, doing any kind of work at all or just even paddling around. And even in the airport there were still bodies, and bodies after bodies, and I could not get a ride. So I had to walk to the Regional Offi ce of the PNP. And even on the gate, there were about — I could almost surmise that they were highway patrol policemen because of their long boots. When you ride the motor you have to protect your legs and that’s why these policemen riding — they call it the 3 PS • 2017 “hagads” — they have these long boots. And there were three of them, just through the — in the gate. And I went inside and met the offi cials of the government. I do not want to say something bad. It’s no longer time to do it. Anyway, we have the ship. It has been all compensated — the agony and suffering. It’s a refreshing sight that there’s a boat there ready to go to where the Filipino is suffering. Pero iyong nakita ko, I cried twice. I was walking along towards the PNP Headquarters, I could see one family lying together, tapos dalawa, isa, dalawa, and male, female. But I chanced upon this almost fi ve months baby. She was alone beside a dead dog. And so I excused myself from the party, and said I’d like to pee. Actually I was looking for a — inside the wreckage and I cried. I could not bear the sight. And what is really is that… I do not mean any… Day two, kasi umalis na kaagad ako, I fl ew out in the afternoon. I went home in the evening. It was at the airport that I cried publicly. But the following day I was following up because I prepared two teams, I knew or I know now, I knew then that they could only stand two days. That’s my… That’s my experience in Davao and in the crisis in Mindanao and during the airplane crash when you are there. The stench and everything, the soldiers could only stand and the doctors for two days and after that they would bog down. So I dispatched the other 20 a day after. And I told them — the original group to come home. And I was asking them, “Is there any activity, the gathering of the dead and everything, the 4 MAY-JUNE decomposing bodies?” And said, “Not yet.” And I was really… I looked to the heaven and said, “My God what’s…” “Anong nangyari?” Something went terribly wrong that Yolanda. Very, very wrong. And I just want to share it with you because I could not forget it. Still ‘yung bata na maliit. And there were… The wind must have carried the poor child. And I hope it would not happen again. I went there because I was born in Leyte. I was… I’m a 1945… When the Americans landed in… My father was a soldier. He was with JAGO. And he was busy in Cebu City. I do not want to mention the personalities but they are old politicians. They were prosecuting them for collaboration with the Japanese government. But I think it was a correct move along the way, an amnesty was declared and everybody was forgiven. So that’s how I really dread crisis and catastrophes like this. We have to give it to Senator — President Gordon. I have to get used to it, I’m sorry, Mr. President. It’s only about a few more years and the… And he’s one guy who every time he goes out of the country, he buys a leather jacket because I ride a motor.
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