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SHURA Council Chairman Ali Al Saleh welcomed parliamentarians from across the world to the 146th Assembly of the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) to be held at Exhibition World Bahrain in Sakhir from Saturday to March 15.
During the conference, titled ‘Promoting peaceful coexistence and inclusive societies: Fighting intolerance’, IPU will offer opportunities for exchange on good practices to promote inclusion and support peaceful coexistence as a prerequisite of resilient, cohesive and democratic societies.
Representatives from 110 parliaments, including delegations from countries in conflict situations, will attend.
The IPU Task Force for Peaceful Resolution of the War in Ukraine will meet high-level parliamentary delegations from both Russia and Ukraine to explore options for peaceful resolution of grievances, in strict observance of international law.
The IPU Committee on Middle East Questions and the IPU Group of Facilitators on Cyprus will also meet to take stock of and propose measures to resolve the situation in those regions.
The assembly will also see the launch of a new IPU campaign – Parliaments for the Planet – designed to mobilise legislators to act on the climate emergency. The campaign will encourage parliaments to reduce their carbon footprints and become greener institutions.
All the IPU’s parliamentary bodies will meet, including its thematic standing committees, the Forum of Women Parliamentarians, the Forum of Young Parliamentarians and the Committee on the Human Rights of Parliamentarians.
There will be no Shura Council session on Sunday with the members assigned to think tanks during the assembly.
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