The President of the Philippines, Rodrigo Duterte, has launched an expletive–laced rant against the United Nations after the world body urged the country to stop state-sanctioned killings of drug dealers.

Calling the UN “stupid”, he told reporters he didn’t “give a sh*t about them”, and said it was interfering.

Then he said the Philippines could invite China, African nations and other countries to create a rival international body … and went on to slam the UN’s response to other global issues.

Watch this YouTube video where he faces questions over the deaths:

https://youtu.be/s9gM1F1EE94

It is believed about 900 suspected drug traffickers have been killed by unidentified attackers since Mr Duterte came to power promising to wipe out drugs in May this year. Another 665 have died at the hands of security forces.

However in a 1am news conference he denied the government was responsible for extra–judicial killings, saying the deaths were not the work of police, and he has invited UN experts to investigate themselves.

He has urged those experts to also count the innocent lives lost to drugs.

A sign near the corpse of a murdered suspected drug addict warns others what could happen to them.
Photo: Barcroft Media via Getty Images.

Mr Duterte slammed Manila’s traditionally close ally, Washington, saying it could not fulfil its own mandate but was worrying about the bones of criminals piling up.

He also said the UN had not done enough to address hunger and terrorism, and had allowed big powers to bomb villages and kill innocent civilians in Syria and Iraq.

– with agencies.