SPONSORSHIP SPEECH
Delivered by the Honorable Win Gatchalian, Senator of the 18th Congress:
Mr. President, distinguished colleagues, I bid you good afternoon.
I take the floor this afternoon in hopes of enlisting your support for the adoption of this Proposed Senate Resolution, which expresses the sense of this esteemed body in recommending that the Department of Education immediately launch its Pilot Testing Program to test the waters for the implementation of localized limited face-to-face classes. The necessity of launching the face-to- face pilot test became clear after four in-depth hearings conducted by the Committee on Basic Education, Arts, and Culture on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the basic education system under Proposed Senate Resolution No. 391.
Press Release
Senate OKs resolution to ratify treaty banning use of nuclear weapons
The Senate today adopted a resolution expressing its concurrence to the ratification of a treaty on the prohibition of nuclear weapons (TPNW). Proposed Senate Resolution 620, introduced and sponsored by Sen. Aquilino Koko Pimentel III, was unanimously adopted with 23 votes. The resolution was co-sponsored by Sen. Risa Hontiveros and all other senators. The Treaty further reinforces commitments against the use, threat of use, development, production, manufacture, acquisition, possession, stockpiling, transfer, stationing, or installation of nuclear weapons, Pimentel, chairman of the Committee on Foreign Relations, said.
He said highlights of the treaty include the prohibition to:
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