President Rodrigo Duterte strongly affirmed the country’s arbitral win against China in the West Philippine Sea dispute before the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA), saying the country rejects any attempt to undermine the ruling. In his speech aired during the high-level general debate at the 75th session of the General Assembly early Wednesday, Duterte said the arbitral ruling has become “part of international law,” and that it stood for “the triumph of reason over rashness, of law over disorder, of amity over ambition.” He said the Philippines’ commitment in the disputed part of the South China Sea was in accordance with the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (Unclos) and the 2016 ruling of the Permanent Court of Arbitration in the Netherlands.

Valente, C. S., & Tamayo, B. E. (2020, September 24). Duterte affirms PH sea victory. The Manila Times, pp. A1, A2.