Miriam pitches for RP joining ICC, Senate votes on 2nd reading 08/17/2011

Miriam pitches for RP joining ICC, Senate votes on 2nd reading

08/17/2011
Sen. Miriam Defensor Santiago, chairman of the foreign relations subcommittee, urged the Senate to concur with the ratification by President Aquino of the Rome Statute which established the International Criminal Court ICC).

The Senate voted for the measure on second reading, resolution No. 546 which seeks the upper chamber’s concurrence of the ratification of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (ICC).


But Senate President Juan Ponce Enrile, along with Sen. Joker Arroyo, however, cast a negative vote.

“Im not objecting, I’m registering a negative vote,” Enrile said..... MORE

Source:  The Daily Tribune

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