Carpio: Perpetrating a myth or misleading the public

AT an online forum sponsored by the Philippine Bar Association held last Friday, April 30, 2021 to discuss the enforcement of the July 2016 arbitral award in the Philippines-China arbitration proceedings held under the auspices of the Hague-based Permanent Court of Arbitration, retired Supreme Court justice Antonio T. Carpio urged the Philippine government to sponsor a resolution in the United Nations General Assembly, urging China to comply with the arbitral award.

As if confident such a Philippine-sponsored resolution would receive the majority vote of the members of the UN General Assembly, Carpio boasted “a resolution of the UN General Assembly calling [on] China to comply with the award will send a strong moral message to China the world will not legitimize China’s illegal act of seizing the South China Sea.”