Senate President and Commission on Appointments Chair Aquilino “Koko” Pimentel III (7th from left) together with other members of the CA pose with five foreign service officials whose appointments were confirmed Wednesday, February 8, 2017. The newly appointed diplomats are (not in particular order) Eduardo Eco Kapunan Jr. as ambassador to the Republic of the Union Myanmar, Buenvenido Villamor Tejano as ambassador to the Independent State of Papua New Guinea, Abdulmaid Kiram Muin as ambassador to the Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste, Evan Pumaren Garcia, as permanent representative of the Republic of the Philippines to the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, and Celia Anna Mallari Feria, as ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary to the Portuguese Republic. (PRIB Photo by Alex Nuevaespaña)