INTERNATIONAL LIBERAL LEADERS GATHERING: Former President Corazon Aquino is greeted by Graham Watson (right), leader of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe (ALDE), as she arrives to address the three-day conference of the Council of Asian Liberals and Democrats (CALD)-ALDE-Liberal International at the Philippine International Convention Center (PICC) this morning (June 22). Also in photo are (from left) Rep. Nereus Acosta, Liberal Party secretary-general; Sen. Francis Pangilinan, LP chairman; former Bulgarian Foreign Minister Solomon Passy, and Senate President and LP head Franklin Drilon. Over 100 leaders from democratic states are attending the conference aimed at drawing the associations responses on issues of migration, population and globalization of labor. (Senate Photo by Joseph Vidal, PRIB)