Speaker of Shura Council Participates in the work of 143rd IPU General Assembly

28 November 2021




HE Speaker of the Shura Council Hassan bin Abdullah Al Ghanem participated today in the plenary session work of the 143rd General Assembly of the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU), hosted by the Spanish capital, Madrid, under the title "Contemporary challenges to democracy: Overcoming division and building community".

The session discussed requests to include the emergency item on the assemblys agenda, and in this regard, it was agreed to withdraw all requests by its authors, with the exception of the request submitted by the African Parliamentary Union on collecting global parliamentary support to achieve equity in vaccination in the fight against the Covid-19 pandemic, where the request was approved, as well as continuing public discussions.

It is scheduled to refer the request to the relevant committee to prepare the draft resolution and then vote for approval by the IPU General Assembly.

The session was attended by HE Ambassador of the State of Qatar to the Kingdom of Spain Abdullah bin Ibrahim Al Hamar, and members of the Shura Council delegation.