5 more senators leaving
AT LEAST five senators are either traveling abroad or have already flown out of the country during Congress’s month-long recess, a Senate source said yesterday.
He identified the officials as Miriam Defensor Santiago, Richard Gordon, Panfilo Lacson, Juan Ponce Enrile and Jamby Madrigal.
Santiago is leaving for New York to wrap up her campaign to join the International Court of Justice.
Gordon flew to the United States on Thursday to meet with officials of the Bush administration and members of the US Congress. He proceeds to Geneva later to attend a meeting of the International Red Cross.
Lacson is due to fly to Australia, but details of his trip were not available.
Enrile and Jamby Madrigal are scheduled to visit Rome.
Senate President Manuel Villar led a Philippine delegation to the Inter-Parliamentary Union in Geneva on Oct. l3-l6. With him were Minority Leader Aquilino Pimentel Jr., Pia Cayetano, Rodolfo Biazon and Gregorio Honasan.
From Geneva, Villar proceeds to Moscow with Majority Leader Francis Pangilinan, Alan Cayetano, Lito Lapid and Juan Miguel Zubiri.
Pimentel is now in London to attend a conference on environment protection.
Edgardo Angara and Jinggoy Estrada are taking part in the ongoing International Monetary Fund-World Bank meeting in Washington D.C.
Zubiri is scheduled to go to Paris on Nov. 2 to address a conference on bio-fuels.
Biazon is also visiting the French capital to attend a meeting on housing and human settlements.
Honasan is scheduled to visit San Francisco. Fel V. Maragay
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