Chair of Milli Majlis Sahiba Gafarova Met with Chair of Kazakhstan Parliament’s Senate
Chair of the Milli Majlis Sahiba Gafarova had a meeting with Chair of the Kazakhstan Parliament’s Senate Maulen Ashimbayev as part of her current visit to the Russian Federation on 15 April. Mrs Gafarova greeted her Kazakh colleague before saying that the relations between our countries embraced many areas and that Azerbaijan attached great importance to the ties with Kazakhstan. The documents that our states have signed provide a solid legal foundation for the interaction whilst the strategic bonds created amongst the Turkic-speaking states create fertile ground for intensification of the co-operation between the fraternal countries.
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Chair of Milli Majlis Sahiba Gafarova Spoke at International Conference in St Petersburg
Chair of the Milli Majlis Sahiba Gafarova who is visiting in St Petersburg currently has spoken at the international conference ‘Global Challenges and Threats in the COVID-19 Pandemic Environment; Terrorism and Violent Extremism’ currently taking place there.
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Two Parliamentary Committees Held a Joint Meeting
The Milli Majlis committees for law policy and state-building and for public associations and religious entities held a joint videoconference on 15 April.
Chair of Milli Majlis Sahiba Gafarova Met with Chair of Kyrgyz Parliament
As reported earlier, the delegation led by Chair of the Milli Majlis Sahiba Gafarova is in St Petersburg, Russia for the spring session of the Interparliamentary Assembly of the Commonwealth of Independent States. As part of the visit, Chair of the Milli Majlis Sahiba Gafarova met with Chair of the Joğorqu Keñeş (‘Supreme Council’ – the Parliament) of Kyrgyzstan Talant Mamytov on 15 April.
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Azerbaijan, Czech Parliamentary Friendship Groups had a Meeting Online
The working groups for interparliamentary relations of the legislatures of Azerbaijan and the Czech Republic had an online meeting on 14 April. Leader of the Milli Majlis Working Group Elnur Allahverdiyev informed the Czech MPs of the Patriotic War having culminated in Azerbaijan’s victory in November last year and of the current situation in the country. He also made them aware of the devastation Armenia had caused in the Azerbaijani lands it had occupied for thirty years and of the minefields in those areas.
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Parliamentary Delegation led by Chair of Milli Majlis Sahiba Gafarova to Visit St Petersburg
A parliamentary delegation to be led by Chair of the Milli Majlis Sahiba Gafarova are leaving for St Petersburg on 14 April to join the spring session of the Interparliamentary Assembly of the Member-Nations of the Commonwealth of Independent States there. The delegation will comprise the MPs Nizami Safarov, Arzu Naghiyev, Amina Agazade, Mikhail Zabelin and Emin Hajiyev as well as Chief of the Milli Majlis Staff Safa Mirzayev and other officials.
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At the Plenary Sitting of the Milli Majlis
Speaker of the Milli Majlis Sahiba Gafarova presided over a scheduled plenary sitting of the Parliament on 13 April. The approval of the agenda was followed by the discussion of the current issues.
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Italian Delegation Calls at Milli Majlis
Members of the Milli Majlis Committee for International Relations and Interparliamentary Contacts and of the Azerbaijani Parliament’s Working Group for interparliamentary connections with Italy welcomed on 12 April the visiting delegation led by Chairman of the Italian Senate’s Standing Commission for External Affairs and Emigration Vito Petrocelli.
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Interparliamentary Relations are Expanding
The Milli Majlis Working Group for the interparliamentary contacts Azerbaijan-Austria and the Austrian Parliament’s group for interparliamentary friendship Austria-South Caucasus had an online meeting on 12 April.
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Chair of Milli Majlis Sahiba Gafarova Met with Chairman of Italian Senate’s Standing Commission for External Affairs and Emigration
Chair of the Milli Majlis Sahiba Gafarova had a meeting with Chairman of the Italian Senate’s Standing Commission for External Affairs and Emigration Vito Petrocelli on 12 April. Madame Speaker welcomed the guest and then told him confidently that his visit was going to service cause of deepening the interparliamentary co-operation. The interaction between Azerbaijan and Italy that grows from the ancient historical roots set new standards after our country regained its state independence, according to Madame Speaker.
Chair of Milli Majlis Sahiba Gafarova Met with President of UN General Assembly’s 75th Session
Chair of the Milli Majlis Sahiba Gafarova met with the President of the UN General Assembly Volkan Bozkır and his delegation currently in Azerbaijan on 9 April. Madame Chair welcomed the guests sincerely before underlining the great importance that Azerbaijan attaches to furthering its relations with the UN and saying that our country is actively involved in peace and security discussions with the branches of this influential international organisation.
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Annual Report by Chamber of Accounts was heard by Milli Majlis Economic Policy, Industries and Enterprising Committee
Four items were considered at the meeting that the Milli Majlis Committee for Economic Policy, Industries and Enterprising held on 8 April. The Bills on the agenda of the meeting were reviewed first.
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Milli Majlis Health Committee Held a Meeting
Chairman of the Milli Majlis Health Committee Ahliman Amiraslanov said while opening a scheduled online committee meeting on 8 April that its agenda comprised eight Bills containing amendments related to the string of acts pursuant to the presidential decree dated 20 December 2018 and aimed to ensure the implementation of compulsory medical insurance in the Azerbaijan Republic.
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Family, Women’s and Children’s Affairs Committee Held a Meeting
The Milli Majlis Committee for Family, Women’s and Children’s Affairs held an online meeting on 8 April. Committee Chair Hijran Huseynova said on opening the meeting about the first item of the agenda being the Bill containing amendments to the Forest, Labour, Family, Criminal, Tax, Criminal Procedure and Administrative Offences codes.
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Chair of Milli Majlis Sahiba Gafarova Met with Republic of Turkey Ambassador to Azerbaijan Erkan Özoral
Chair of the Milli Majlis Sahiba Gafarova met with the outbound Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Ambassador of the Republic of Turkey to Azerbaijan Erkan Özoral on 8 April.
It was mentioned during their conversation that the progress of the relations between the friendly and fraternal countries in every area and that the strategic ties connecting Turkey and Azerbaijan go back deep into the past and are reliant on their brotherhood.
Chair of Milli Majlis Sahiba Gafarova Met with the Ambassador of Arab Republic of Egypt to Azerbaijan
Chair of the Milli Majlis Sahiba Gafarova had a meeting with the Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Ambassador of the Arab Republic of Egypt to Azerbaijan Adel Ibrahim Ahmad Ibrahim on 7 April.
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PABSEC Committees Held Their Online Meetings
Two committees of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Black Sea Economic Cooperation had their respective online meetings attended by the member-states’ national delegations on 7 April.
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Azerbaijani MP to Monitor Forthcoming Referendum in Kyrgyzstan
A Milli Majlis deputy Vugar Iskandarov is leaving for Bishkek on 8 April to join the TURKPA International Monitoring Mission for the national constitutional amendment referendum due in the Kyrgyz Republic on 11 April.
Iraqi Parliamentary Delegation at Milli Majlis
There was a meeting at the Milli Majlis on 5 April with the visiting delegation led by Sherko Muhammad Saleh Ahmad Kadir Mir Vais, chairman of the Iraqi Parliament’s Committee of International Relations. First Deputy Chair of the Milli Majlis Ali Huseynli who greeted the guests touched on the historical friendship between our countries and said that the bilateral interaction had been progressing in various areas with success over the past years...
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At the Meeting of the Law Policy and State-Building Committee
The Milli Majlis Committee for Law Policy and State-Building held an online meeting to look at four draft amendments to effective laws on 5 April. First Deputy Chair of the Milli Majlis and the Committee Chairman Ali Huseynli opened the meeting and pointed at the interconnection between the first two agenda items, namely, the first-reading draft amendments to the laws ‘On the Prosecution Authorities’ and ‘On Serving in the Prosecution Authorities’.