Doha: Speaker of the Shura Council H E Hassan bin Abdullah Al Ghanim met yesterday with several parliamentarians on the sideline of His Excellency’s participation in the high-level parliamentary conference, organised by the Doha-based UNOCT Programme Office on Parliamentary Engagement in Preventing and Countering Terrorism and the African Parliamentary Union (APU) and in partnership with the Shura Council, under the title “Understanding the terrorist threat in Africa: new challenges and necessary measures,” held in Doha.
The Speaker of the Shura Council met separately with Speaker of the National Assembly of the Republic of Djibouti and APU Chairperson H E Mohamed Ali Houmed, President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Mediterranean (PAM) H E Gennaro Migliore, and First Vice President of the National Assembly of the Republic of Niger H E Kalla Ankourao.
During the meetings, they reviewed the relations of cooperation in the parliamentary field and combating terrorism between the Shura Council and each of APU, PAM, and the National Assembly of Nigeria and ways to strengthen them, in addition to discussing the most important topics on the conference agenda.
