BELGIAN AMBASSADOR VISITS THE SENATE: Senate President Franklin M. Drilon hands a token gift to Roland Van Remoortele, Belgian Ambassador to the Philippines, during the envoy's courtesy call at the Senate, Tuesday morning. At the meeting the Belgian representative, now on his second tour, affirmed his country's "close affinity with the people of the Philippines." Belgium has consistently remained as one of the Philippine's biggest European trading partners, next only to the Netherlands and Germany. (PRIB Photo by Cesar Tomambo /25 February 2014)