Aquino gets dose of own medicine on China calls By Aytch S. de la Cruz 02/17/2011

Aquino gets dose of own medicine on China calls

By Aytch S. de la Cruz 02/17/2011
China appears to have returned the courtesy, or the lack of it, of not returning phone calls which its territory Hong Kong’s Chief Executive Donald Tsang suffered at the hands of President Aquino at the height of the hostage crisis in August last year as Aquino said all his calls yesterday to Chinese President Hu Jintao to appeal the case of three Filipino drug couriers who face execution next week went unanswered.

Malacañang admitted the chances of saving the lives of the three Filipinos are between slim and nil with Aquino saying that appealing their cases before his Chinese counterpart being remote as all his phone calls were not returned regarding the matter.

Aquino tried chiding China for “reciprocity” to show clemency saying none of the Chinese drug law offenders in the country were meted the penalty of execution despite knowing that the death penalty has long been abolished in the country unlike in Beijing.

For Senate President Juan Ponce Enrile, there’s no more legal remedies as far as the Philippine government is concerned..... MORE

Source:  The Daily Tribune

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