UNITED NATIONS: Rodrigo Duterte, who has railed against the United Nations for criticizing his government, has declined a request to meet UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, officials said Thursday (Friday in Manila).

UN spokesman Stephane Dujarric said that “contacts were had to try to set up a time” for a meeting on the sidelines of the Asean meeting in Vientiane, Laos next week, but that “no time could be agreed upon.”

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