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Duterte urges Trump back away from standoff

Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte suggested Saturday to his American counterpart to back out from an intensifying standoff with North Korea not in surrender but to avoid risking a nuclear "holocaust" that could affect Asia immensely.

 

Duterte said in a news conference after hosting an annual summit of Southeast Asian leaders in Manila that he would ask President Donald Trump, who he said he was expecting to call him later Saturday "to see to it that there is no war because my region will suffer immensely."

 

The Philippine leader did not explain why Trump planned to call him. Duterte said: "It would be good for America to just restrain a little bit and if I were President Trump, I'll just back out, not really in surrender and retreat, but just to let the guy realize that, 'ah, please do not do it.'"

 


פרסום ראשון: 04.29.17, 16:52