Kuwait Parliament speaker chairs Arab Group meeting
Date
1/23/2016 10:09:08 PM
(MENAFN- Kuwait News Agency (KUNA)) BAGHDAD Jan 23 (KUNA) -- President of the Arab Inter-Parliamentary Union (AIPU) and Speaker of Kuwait's National Assembly Marzouq Al-Ghanim chaired on Saturday a meeting of the Arab Group in the Parliamentary Union of the OIC (PUIC).
The National Assembly Speaker started his address at the meeting praising Iraq for hosting the PUIC conference. He also lauded the Iraqi parliament Speaker Salim Al-Jabouri for his warm welcome of the participating delegations.
He declared agenda of the meeting including election of representatives of the Arab Group in the PUIC permanent committees and shortly later ordered suspension of the session for 10 minutes to enable participants hold deliberations.
The conferees after resumption of the session elected by consensus Algeria Lebanon Sudan and Saudi Arabia as members of the executive committee. Mauritania Palestine Morocco and the UAE were chosen for the commission of political affairs and external relations.
Morocco Bahrain Iraq and Djibouti were given membership in the committee of economic affairs and environment. Mauritania Jordan Kuwait and Tunisia for the committee of human rights women and family while Syria Oman Egypt and Libya for the cultural affairs committee. Then Al-Ghanim called off the session. (end) ahh.rk
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