(Eagle News) — Jordan is giving the Philippines two Cobra helicopters.
President Rodrigo Duterte made the announcement in a speech during the Philippine Navy’s 120th founding anniversary commemoration on Tuesday, May 22.
In April, Duterte announced National Security Adviser Hermogenes Esperon had advised him to tone down his attacks against United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein because his cousin, Jordan’s King Abdullah, was willing to donate the helicopters.
“We can never buy one even but he is willing to give us two. So you just suffer in humiliation and shut up,” Duterte had said.