H.E. the PUIC Secretary General Prof. Dr. Mahmud Erol KILIC, accompanied by the Assistant Secretary General, participated as an observer, in the proceedings of the 10th Session of the Asian Parliamentary Assembly (APA), which was held in Istanbul, Republic of Turkey from 20 to 25 November 2017.

The Istanbul Declaration, issued at the conclusion of the session, confirmed the right of the Palestinian people to establish the Palestinian state on the borders of June 4, 1967 with Al-Quds as its capital.
The Declaration denounced all the illegal settlement activities and the demolition of buildings in Palestine, and also all the violations committed by the Israeli occupation forces.
The Istanbul Declaration, adopted at the closing session of the Asian Parliamentary Assembly today, which includes 42 Asian parliaments, welcomed Palestinian reconciliation.

26 November 2017