BAKU, Azerbaijan, April 17. Sahiba Gafarova,
Speaker of the Azerbaijani Parliament, presided over the general
debates held as part of the 152nd Assembly of the
Inter-Parliamentary Union, Trend reports via the press service of the Azerbaijani
Parliament.
Furthermore, speakers included Haibat al-Halbousi, Speaker of
the Council of Representatives of Iraq; Milton Dick, Speaker of the
House of Representatives of Australia; Mamoudou Harouna Djingarey,
Speaker of the Consultative Council of Niger; Alen Simonyan,
Speaker of the Armenian Parliament; Prasad Aryal, Speaker of the
Nepalese National Assembly; Angela Thokozile Didiza, Speaker of the
South African National Assembly; Rawhi Fattouh, Speaker of the
Palestinian National Council, among others.
Meanwhile, the 152nd Assembly of the Inter-Parliamentary Union
(IPU) and the 5th Conference of the Non-Aligned Movement
Parliamentary Network (NAM PN) have commenced in Istanbul on April
15.
The conference, attended by about 130 delegates from nearly 50
countries and international organizations, adopted the Istanbul
Declaration. The Arab Parliament was also granted observer status
in the Parliamentary Network.
