SOTTO DELIVERS PRIVILEGE SPEECH: Senate Majority Floor Leader Vicente Sotto III delivers his privilege speech today, May 8, 2012, asking the Senate to conduct an inquiry into existing rules and procedures of the Department of Foreign Affairs in the treatment and granting of immunity to various diplomatic personnel stationed in the country. Sotto raised the issue of granting embassy officials immunity from arrest and detention after a Panamanian national was released due to diplomatic immunity even if he was accused of raping a Filipina. (PRIB Photo by Joseph Vidal)