WREATH-LAYING: Senate Minority Leader Aquilino Q. Pimentel, Jr. accompanies Czech Republic Senate President Premsyl Sobotka during the wreath-laying at the Rizal Monument in Rizal Park (Luneta). Premsyls visit to the country is aimed at further strengthening the friendship between the Philippines and the Czech Republic which dates back during the friendship between the principal of the Litome Yice realschule, Ferdinand Blumentritt, and the countrys national hero, Dr. Jose Rizal. (Photo by ROMEO BUGANTE, SENATE/PRIB)