Press Release
April 9, 2008
Statement of Sen. Nene Pimentel on criticism that lawmakers will go on a junket to Cape Town, South Africa
Not me. I have to attend Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) human rights meeting because I represent ASEAN plus 3 and Asia-Pacific region that elected me. My work begins and ends five days later.
I work myself to the bone and earn every centavo the Senate spends for me. The agenda of the human rights committee meeting includes Myanmar atrocities, Sri Lanka killings, Trillanes detention and other incidents.
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