don mclean, gill, joining us live on our team to national great to see you today. what, what, what is your opinion of the i c c 's claims towards to try to pay? are they justified or not? well, 1st of all, thank you so much for having me on this very interesting and important topic. now we have to understand the root cause of all this, you know, the systems of the processes are happening with regards to the issue. now, you know, at the end of the day will to lateral institutions, organizations that have several members must acknowledge, of course, that faith sovereignty remains the primary foundation of international relations of inscribed article to section 4. if the un charter was all parties to respect the sovereignty, now the nature of international institutions remains rounded on the dynamics of international structure. so the past, the bipolar unipolar order, such arrangements are more rigid and often and strained to 4 states, particularly in the developing world. but as we can see now, transitioning towards more people, arity and more polls continuing to eme

and earlier we spoke with our guest, don mclean, gail and he says the country has its own functioning judicial system and its sovereignty must be respected. the philippines is a stable democracy with a functioning checks and balances, of course, an effective, democratically driven electoral system. so the current position of manila is that we do not need to be constrained by an international bodies judgement when our judicial system is working absolutely efficiently. so sovereignty is the most precious possession of the state. and now states in the developing world, as i mentioned with a shift have been given the opportunity to more effectively and more confidently face guard their sovereignty. and in fact, all the morning, 1967 has always precise the rule of non interference interstate relations. so sovereignty sensitivity to states, you know, they must be respected. and external issues can be addressed diplomatically between and among states involved multi laterally as well as internal issues will be addressed by state due to sharing. so in the philippines case, you know, we have an