President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. on Thursday (November 14) reiterated that government is duty-bound to comply with a red notice the International Criminal Police Organization (Interpol) may issue for the provisional arrest of ex-President Rodrigo Duterte.

However, Marcos stressed that no agency of the government willtake part in any investigation into Duterte’s role in the blood anti-drug war that killed over 6,000 people during his time as president.

“We have obligations to the the Interpol. And we have to live up to those obligations,” he said.

Marcos supported Executive Secretary Luis Bersamin’s statement on the possible released by the Interpol of a red notice on Duterte.

“If the ICC refers the process to the Interpol, which may then transmit a red notice to the Philippine authorities, the government will feel obliged to consider the red notice a s a request to be honored,” Bersamin said in a press statement the other day.

Marcos commented on Duterte’s boast that he wants the ICC to come to the country to start investigating him, saying that his administration will not take part in it..

“We will not block the ICC. We just won’t help,” Duterte told reporters during an ambush interview.

He pointed out that if former President Rodrigo Duterte makes good his boast that he is wiling to be investigated by the ICC, then that will be a matter that the Marcos administration will allow.

“But if he agrees, he talks to them or he allows to (be) investigated at the ICC, that’s up to him. It’s not our decision,” said the chief executive.