BAKU, Azerbaijan, January 11. The delegation of
Turkmenistan headed by the Chairman of the lower house of the
Turkmen parliament Gulshat Mammedova on January 8-10, 2023, took
part in the 13th plenary session of the Asian Parliamentary
Assembly (APA) held in the Turkish city of Antalya, Trend reports citing the
Turkmen Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Delegations from 27 countries of the world took part in the
meeting held on the theme Promoting Multilateralism in the Changing
International Dynamics. At the opening, speeches were heard by the
Secretary General of the Asian Parliamentary Assembly Mohammad Reza
Majidi, the acting Speaker of the Grand National Assembly
(Parliament) of Türkiye and APA Mustafa Shentop, as well as the
chairmen of the parliaments of the participating countries.
In her speech, Mammedova noted that Turkmenistan attaches
special importance to cooperation in the fields of energy,
transport, ecology, and cultural and humanitarian diplomacy in the
international space, and also added that the Turkmen parliament is
interested in bilateral and multilateral cooperation in ensuring
peace and security through parliamentary diplomacy.
Meanwhile, within the framework of the last forum, meetings of
the Political Committee, the Executive Committee, and the Standing
Committees of the APA were held, at which parliamentarians
exchanged views on issues on the agenda of the committees, made
proposals to increase the effectiveness of the structures,
considered draft decisions.
Following the meeting of the Asian Parliamentary Assembly, a
declaration was adopted.
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