KUWAIT: National Assembly Speaker Marzouq Al-Ghanem participated Wednesday in an online meeting of the fourth preparatory committee for the Fifth World Conference of Speakers of Parliament to be held in August in Vienna. Ghanem's participation in the meeting comes as a representative of the Arab countries in the Inter-Parliamentary Union, where he previously participated in the past two meetings in Geneva and the last online meeting two weeks ago.
During the meeting, Ghanem discussed several points related to the position of the Arab region group on a variety of issues including climate change, refugee and demographic changes in the world countries, in addition to discussing the developments of the novel coronavirus.
Parliamentarians from more than 15 countries representing geopolitical groups in the world participated in the meeting, in addition to the President of the Inter-Parliamentary Union Gabriela Cuevas Baron and the Secretary General of the Inter-Parliamentary Union Martin Chung Gong. – KUNA