MANILA, Philippines — For President Rodrigo Duterte, the United Nations is useless for mankind. It has failed to prevent, according to the Philippine leader, wars and genocide from transpiring. However, a landmark study published in 2017 by two American universities said that the UN had been effective in its mandate to prevent wars than many experts thought. When the UN was established in the ashes of two devastating world wars, it vowed to save "succeeding generations from the scourge of war." "The United Nations has no purpose at all actually for mankind as far as I'm concerned," Duterte said in his extemporaneous speech before Indian businessmen in New Delhi.

Source: Philippine Star January 26, 2018 13:30 UTC