Manama, June 21st (BNA) –Kingdom of Bahrain’s parliamentary division participates in the 13th Afro-Arab Parliamentary Conference that will be held in the Kingdom of Morocco’s capital Rabat next week.
The delegation is chaired by the First Deputy Chairman of the Council of Representatives, Abdullah Bin Khalaf Al-Dousari, and MPs: Ahmed Bahzad, Ali Al-Asfoor, Ibrahim Bashmi, Dr. Jassim Al-Saeedi, Abdul Hakeem Al-Shimari, and Adnan Al-Malki.
It is scheduled that the Bahraini delegation will hold a coordinating meeting to prepare for the participation in the Conference next Sunday at the Council of Representatives chaired by Abdullah Al-Doosari, member of the Executive Committee of the Arab Inter-parliamentary Union (AIPU).
The Conference will discuss developing the Arab-Afro cooperation to support the joint economic projects, and the participants will discuss the role of the Arab and African parliaments in ensuring the respect for religions and holy places in the two regions, as well as protecting the national cultures of the African and Arab people in the face of the implications of globalization.
During the Conference, the members of the conference’s bureau will be elected, as well as the formation of a follow-up committee, in addition to the issuance of the concluded statement, and defining the date and place of holding the 14th Afro-Arab Conference.
It is worth mentioning that the Executive Committee of the Arab Parliamentary Union, which held its meeting in the Moroccan Capital Rabat, has recently pointed out that the programme of the 13th Afro-Arab Conference and the attached meetings, include the meeting of the follow-up committee emanated from the 12th Conference. They also include the organization of the joint symposium on the theme “The Challenges of globalization and its Effects on National Cultures in Africa and the Arab world.”
In an earlier time, the Arab Parliamentary Union stressed that the dialogue with Africa should be one of the main fields of the Union’s activity, for Africa represents an important political weight in the international arena, and have multiple ties between its countries and the Arab Countries either: geographical, historical, political, economic and combative.
The Arab Parliamentary Union was keen to establish good relations with the African parliaments through the African Parliaments Union, especially after the Second Conference of the Union, which stressed the need to give priority to the Arab-African dialogue relations.
As a result of communications between the two Unions, the first meeting for the parliamentary dialogue was held in Tunisia, with the participation of 27 representatives of African and Arab parliaments, where the meeting took political, economic and cultural decisions calling for strengthening Arab and African cooperation in all fields. The meeting also issued important decisions and recommendations namely: approving the periodic dialogue meetings once every two years, and the need to develop a regulatory framework, and the formation of a follow-up committee to implement its decisions.
MR.