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Agence France-Presse

Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte has expressed regret over his “son of a whore” remark while referring to US President Barack Obama - the latest offensive comments to raise questions about his diplomatic skills.
He was due to meet Obama in Laos on Tuesday on the sidelines of a regional leaders’ summit, his first overseas event since being sworn into office on June 30, but Obama cancelled that meeting.
Here are 10 of his most undiplomatic remarks:

“You must be respectful. Do not just throw away questions and statements. Son of a whore, I will curse you in that forum.”
Duterte, who has launched a war on crime that has claimed more than 2,400 lives, warns Obama not to raise human rights issues with him in their Laos meeting.

“I’m fighting with (US Secretary of State John Kerry’s) ambassador. His gay ambassador, the son of a whore. He p***ed me off.”
- Duterte in an August speech smarting over US Ambassador to Manila Philip Goldberg’s criticism of his comment about wanting to rape a “beautiful” Australian missionary.

“F*** you, UN, you can’t even solve the Middle East carnage... couldn’t even lift a finger in Africa... shut up, all of you.”
- Duterte in a June press conference, a seemingly unprovoked attack on the world body.

“Maybe we’ll just have to decide to separate from the United Nations. If you are that disrespectful, son of a whore, then I will just leave you.”
- Duterte in an August news briefing after a UN human rights expert said orders in his anti-crime crackdown violated international law. He later said he was just joking.

“Ban Ki-moon, he should write to me so that I will tell him: ‘You did nothing. People are being massacred by the thousands. You can’t stop (the war) in Turkey, Syria.’ So one useless, inutile body.”
- Duterte in an August press conference railing against the UN chief after Ban denounced his apparent endorsement of extrajudicial killings.

“I will go there on my own with a jet ski, bringing with me a flag and a pole and once I disembark, I will plant the flag on the runway and tell the Chinese authorities, ‘Kill me!’”
- Duterte in a February campaign speech explaining how he would handle Manila’s row with Beijing over the South China Sea. He has since adopted a more cautious tone.

“That’s the invention of a woman who wants to commit suicide. You can think of genocide, suicide or what, side by side, upper side, whatever, what if upper side or even upside?”
- Duterte launches a rambling verbal assault on Agnes Callamard, the UN special rapporteur on summary executions, after she accused him of violating international law with his statements seen as inciting people to kill.
“I burned the flag of Singapore. I said: ‘F*** you ... You are a garrison pretending to be a country.’”
- Duterte in a November speech, recalling how he burned in 1995 a Singapore flag to protest at the execution of a Filipina maid in the city-state.
“You are not a warrior if you do that. We are not Arabs. That is not our culture. We are all Malay.”
- Duterte in an August speech condemning how Philippine Islamic militants supposedly mutilated the bodies of slain soldiers.

“It took us five hours to get from the hotel to the airport. I asked who was coming. They said it was the Pope. I wanted to call him. ‘Pope, son of a whore, go home. Don’t visit anymore.’”
- Duterte in a May 2016 speech recalling being stuck in Manila traffic when Pope Francis visited the Philippines.


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UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon (C) arrives for the G20 Summit at the International Expo Center in Hangzhou on September 4, 2016. G20 leaders confront a sluggish global economy and the winds of populism as they open annual talks, but the long war in Syria and the South China Sea territorial dispute hang over the summit. / AFP PHOTO / POOL / Rolex DELA PENA

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Pope Francis waves from the popemobile before leading a Mass at Rizal Park in Manila January 18, 2015. Huge crowds converged on a Manila park on Sunday to see Pope Francis wrap up his Asian trip with an outdoor Mass expected to draw one of the largest crowds in Philippine history. REUTERS/ Cheryl Ravelo (PHILIPPINES - Tags: RELIGION)

A meme depicting Rodrigo Duterte on a jet ski.

(FILES) This file photo taken on July 27, 2016 shows Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte (R) greeting US Ambassador to the Philippines Philip S. Goldberg (L) as US Secretary of State John Kerry looks on during his visit to the Malacanang presidential palace in Manila. The Philippines' firebrand President Rodrigo Duterte has sparked a fresh diplomatic row with his colourful language, calling the US ambassador "gay" in comments that prompted Washington to summon Manila's envoy to complain. In the latest of series of tirades, Duterte used a local Tagalog language homophobic slur to express his displeasure with US Ambassador Philip Goldberg in televised comments made on August 5, 2016. / AFP PHOTO / POOL / Aaron Favila

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US President Barack Obama speaks during a press conference following the conclusion of the G20 summit in Hangzhou on September 5, 2016. US President Barack Obama on September 5 called a planned meeting with Rodrigo Duterte into question after the Philippine leader launched a foul-mouthed tirade against him. / AFP PHOTO / SAUL LOEB

This picture taken on September 1, 2016, shows the grieving father of a suspected drug user killed by the police in Manila. Two were captured alive, one died. Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte called US leader Barack Obama a "son of a whore" on September 5 as he left on his foreign trip with more than 2,400 people dead in his bloody two-months-old war on crime. / AFP PHOTO / NOEL CELIS

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