At the Meeting of the Youth and Sports Committee
The Milli Majlis Committee for Youth and Sports held its first meeting (online) in the spring parliamentary session on 22 January.

Parliament’s Health Care Committee Had a Meeting
The Milli Majlis Health Care Committee had its first meeting (as a videoconference) of the spring parliamentary session on 21 January.

Milli Majlis Chair Sahiba Gafarova Met with Officials of Cooperation Council of Turkic-Speaking States, TURKSOY and International Turkic Culture and Heritage Foundation
Chair of the Milli Majlis Sahiba Gafarova met on 19 January with the delegation including Secretary General of the Cooperation Council of Turkic-Speaking States (Turkic Council) Baghdad Amreyev, Secretary General of the International Organisation of Turkic Culture (TURKSOY) Dusen Kasseinov and President of the Turkic Culture and Heritage Foundation Gunay Efendiyeva.

Regional Affairs Committee Held Its First Spring-Session Meeting
The Milli Majlis Committee for Regional Affairs held its first spring-session meeting on 19 January. The

The Parliamentary Committee for Human Rights Held the First Meeting in the 2021 Spring Session
The Milli Majlis Committee for Human Rights held its first meeting of the 2021 spring session on 19 January; opening the meeting, Committee Chairman Zahid Oruj congratulated the participants on the start of the spring session.

Milli Majlis Committee for Sciences and Education Holds the First Meeting of 2021 Spring Session
The Sciences and Education Committee of the Milli Majlis held online the first meeting of the 2021 spring session on 18 January.

Milli Majlis Chair Sahiba Gafarova Met with the Ambassador of Islamic Republic of Afghanistan
Welcoming the ambassador of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan to our country Amanullah Jaihoon at the meeting on 15 January, Chair of the Milli Majlis Sahiba Gafarova wished him success in his work and said she hoped that Mr Jaihoon as an envoy of Afghanistan in Azerbaijan would spare no effort to strengthen the bilateral relations.

The First Territorial Unit of the NAP Held a Meeting at the Parliament
The Board of the New Azerbaijan Party’s First Territorial Unit (FTU) No 2 for the Sabail District held an expanded videoconference meeting on 11 January.

Milli Majlis Members Will Monitor Parliamentary Election in Kazakhstan
Members of the Milli Majlis are leaving for the Kazakh capital of Nur-Sultan on 7 December to observe the parliamentary election due in that country on 10 December.

Our MPs to Monitor Presidential Election in Kyrgyzstan
Members of the Milli Majlis are going to the Kyrgyz capital city of Bishkek on 8 January to monitor the forthcoming extraordinary presidential election in Kyrgyzstan.
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The Autumn Session of the Milli Majlis Has Come to Conclusion
The last plenary sitting of the autumn session of the Milli Majlis was held on 30 December.
The Milli Majlis Passes the 2021 Budgetary Parcel Bills in the Third Reading
Prime Minister Ali Asadov and members of the Government attended the parliamentary plenary session that Chair of the Milli Majlis Sahiba Gafarova presided over on 29 December.

The 2021 State Budget Bill is Approved in the Second Reading at a Plenary Session of the Milli Majlis
Chair of the Milli Majlis Sahiba Gafarova said while opening the plenary sitting on 28 December that there were 12 items on the agenda with 9 of them being the draft 2021 State Budget of the Azerbaijan Republic and the draft laws in the Budgetary Parcel, all coming up for the second reading.

First-Reading Deliberations on the 2021 State Budget Bill Continued at the Plenary Sitting of the Milli Majlis
The Milli Majlis had another plenary sitting on 25 December. Opening the sitting, the Parliament’s Chair Sahiba Gafarova mentioned the deliberations on the first agenda item, namely, the Bill ‘On the 2021 State Budget of the Azerbaijan Republic’, started at the sitting yesterday, adding that the deliberations would be continued today.

At the Joint Meeting of Parliamentary Committees
The Milli Majlis committees for public association and religious entities and for law policy and state-building discussed the draft amendments to the Law ‘On Political Parties’ in the second reading at their joint online meeting held on 25 December.

First-Reading Deliberations upon the 2021 State Budget Bill Began at a Plenary Sitting of the Milli Majlis
Opening the scheduled plenary session sitting of the Milli Majlis on 24 December, Speaker Sahiba Gafarova welcomed the attending Prime Minister and other governmental officials before announcing that today is the birthday of the President of the Azerbaijan Republic Mr Ilham Aliyev.

The 2021 Budgetary Package Discussed at the Joint Meeting of Seven Milli Majlis Committees
Milli Majlis committees held a joint online meeting on 23 December to discuss the first reading of the 2021 State Budget of the Azerbaijan Republic Bill and the other Bills included in the Budgetary Package.

Milli Majlis Committee Discussed the 2021 State Budget
The Milli Majlis Committee for Economic Policy, Industries and Enterprising held a meeting on 23 December that Committee Chairman Tahir Mirkishili announced whilst opening it was about the first reading of the 2021 State Budget of the Azerbaijan Republic Bill and the other Bills contained in the Budgetary Parcel.

Amendments to the Law ‘On Political Parties’ Discussed at the Joint Meeting of Milli Majlis Committees
The Milli Majlis committees for public associations and religious entities, and for law policy and state-building held a joint online meeting on 23 December.

Draft State Budget of Next Year Was Discussed at a Joint Meeting of Parliamentary Committees
The Milli Majlis committees for defence, security and counter-corruption, for law policy and state-building, for natural resources, energy and ecology, for agrarian policy, for human rights, for international relations and interparliamentary contacts and for regional affairs held a joint online meeting to discuss the first reading of the 2021 State Budget of the Azerbaijan Republic Bill on 23 December.