1 April 2018 -  PUIC Desk

The PUIC held its regular consultation meeting on the sidelines of the 138th IPU Assembly, prior to the opening IPU Session, on Saturday 24th March 2018. The meeting was chaired by H.E. Mr. Marzoug Ali Al-Ghanim, Speaker of the National Assembly of the State of Kuwait and the participation of 26 PUIC Member Parliaments. The meeting was attended by H.E. Mr. Ahmed Bin Abdullah Bin Zeid Al-Mahmoud, Speaker of the Advisory Council of the State of Qatar, H.E. Mr. Ibrahim Ahmed Omer, Speaker of the National Assembly of the Republic of the Sudan, as well as H.E. Mr. Ismail Kahraman, Speaker of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey, and a large number of delegates of Member Parliaments.
At the beginning of the meeting H.E. the PUIC Secretary General submitted a brief report on the proposed emergency items. Then the attendees debated the subject of the emergency item. As all proposals were about the issue of Palestine and the city of Al-Quds and being keen on reaching a consensus on the emergency item, the attendees formed a committee, headed by the representative of the Palestine National Council, and the membership of the representatives of the Kingdom of Bahrain, State of Kuwait and the Republic of Turkey. It was agreed that the parliaments of these states shall submit a single request for inclusion as an emergency item on the agenda of the 138th IPU Assembly under the title ” The consequences of the US declaration on Jerusalem, and the rights of the Palestinian people in Jerusalem in the light of the UN Charter and resolutions.” This proposal has in fact got the biggest number of votes in the plenary session, and was selected as an emergency item on the agenda of the 138th IPU Assembly.