To be asked to deliver a speech before a joint session of a legislature is a high honor accorded to a visiting head of state, and the event is thus usually well-attended. In contrast, the UNGA has been derided as a platform of tyrants.
Press Secretary Trixie Cruz-Angeles on Thursday (New York time) erroneously claimed that only President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. was granted a bilateral meeting with US President Joe Biden at the sidelines of the 77th Session of the UN General Assembly in New York.
President Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr. erroneously claimed that the Marcos family was not given the chance to present its side in the case filed against them by the government in the early 1990s for billions in unpaid estate taxes.