National Assembly Speaker Marzouq Ali Al-Ghanim participated, through a video conference on Tuesday, in the third preparatory committee meeting, for the fifth conference of parliaments Speakers of the world, scheduled to be held next August in Vienna, Austria.
Al-Dostour News Network said in a statement that Al-Ghanim participated as a representative of the Arab Parliamentary Group, as he had previously participated in the last two meetings in Geneva.
During today’s meeting, Al-Ghanim made several remarks in which he affirmed the position of the Arab group towards many of the issues presented at the meeting, including climate change, refugee issues, and demographic changes in many countries around the world, in addition to discussing the developments of coronavirus, also known as COVID-19, which was later included in the meeting’s agenda.
Parliamentarians from more than 14 countries representing the geopolitical groups in the world participated in the meeting today, in addition to the President of the Inter-Parliamentary Union Gabriela Cuevas Barron and the Secretary-General of the Inter-Parliamentary Union Martin Chungong.