By Hannah Torregoza Senator Richard Gordon today said President Duterte has the right to defend the country from any possible threats especially from foreign entities that attempt to destabilize it. Senator Richard Gordon (Czar Dancel / MANILA BULLETIN FILE PHOTO) In an interview over Radio DZBB, Gordon said the President has the prerogative to order the arrest of the members of the International Criminal Court (ICC) should they visit the country to probe the alleged state-sanctioned killings related to the administration's war on drugs. Gordon said he himself would not sign the treaty making the Philippines a member of the ICC. "That is the prerogative of any government," Gordon said in the interview. "Alam mo ako, hindi ako pipirma diyan sa ICC na 'yan e dahil diminution talaga ng sovereignty natin 'yan e. Akalain mo, ibang bansa papasok dito, mag-iimbestiga (Insofar as I'm concerned, I wouldn't sign in that ICC document because that is really diminution of our sovereignty. Imagine, another nation will come in to investigate us) ," he said. "As far as the President is concerned, he has the right to protect the country. Kapag ang mga ito ay gagawa lang ng hindi mabuti, dine-destabilize ang bayan natin (if what they are doing would not be good and they are just destabilizing our nation), he has that right," he added. On Friday, Duterte maintained that the ICC has no jurisdiction on the communication filed by lawyer Jude Sabio in April 2017. Duterte insisted the Rome Statute, which established the ICC, cannot be enforced in the Philippines since it was not published in the government's publication or commercial newspaper. “Kaya ikaw Ms. Fatou (ICC prosecutor Fatou Bensouda), ‘wag kang pumunta dito because I will bar you. Not because I am afraid of you, I said, because you will never have jurisdiction over my person, not in a million years,” Duterte said. Currently, the ICC is determining whether it has jurisdiction to probe allegations against Duterte of state -sanctioned killings related to his war on drugs campaign. Gordon reasoned out it is not the government itself that is responsible for the alleged state-sanctioned killings but the police. That is why he supports the Supreme Court's order to the Philippine National Police (PNP) to submit their report on the killings to the High Court. "The police are responsible. That's why I supported the SC when it ordered the police to submit the evidenxe and explain their part," Gordon said. "The police have the mandate to explain to the people why there were deaths (in the government's drug war)," he pointed out.