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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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...
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’.
At the Milli Majlis Plenary Sitting
Speaker of the Milli Majlis Sahiba Gafarova chaired a scheduled parliamentary plenum with a 13-item agenda on 2 April. The MPs Malahat Ibrahimghizi, Siyavush Novruzov, Fazil Mustafa, Jeyhun Mammadov, Zahid Oruj, Shahin Seyidzade, Bahrouz Maharramov, Sadagat Valiyeva, Aydin Mirzazade and Aghil Abbas commented on a number of current issues and voiced their relevant suggestions while the matters of the day were discussed.
Chair of Milli Majlis Sahiba Gafarova Met with Trade Minister of Republic of Turkey
Chair of the Milli Majlis Sahiba Gafarova met with the delegation led by the Minister of Trade of the Republic of Turkey Ruhsar Pekcan on 2 April.
Azerbaijani MPs will Monitor Parliamentary Election in Bulgaria
Chairman of the Milli Majlis Labour and Social Policy Committee Musa Guliyev and Leader of the Azerbaijan-Bulgaria Interparliamentary Contacts Working Group Rauf Aliyev are leaving for the Bulgarian capital city of Sofia on 2 April to monitor, on behalf of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Black Sea Economic Cooperation and the Milli Majlis, respectively, the parliamentary election due in Bulgaria on 4 April.
The Sciences and Education Committee Held a Meeting
Chairman of the Milli Majlis Committee for Sciences and Education Bakhtiyar Aliyev recalled when opening the committee meeting on 31 March that the victims of the Armenian genocidal policy against the Azerbaijanis were commemorated on that day every year.
A Baltic Assembly Committee Had a Meeting
The Education, Science and Culture Committee of the Baltic Assembly had a meeting on 26 March. MP Elnur Allahverdiyev who helms the Milli Majlis Delegation to the GUAM Parliamentary Assembly joined the online meeting that covered the topics of strategic partnership in education and sciences between the Baltic States (considering the COVID-19 pandemic’s impact and the opportunities to broaden the co-operation) and the employment situation as well as the labour market during and after the COVID-19 pandemic with a view to the future of education in the Baltic States in the face of the new challenges.
The Advisory of the Press and Public Relations Department of the Milli Majlis
The Members of the European Parliament (EP) – Marina KALJURAND, Chair of the Delegation for relations with the South Caucasus, Željana ZOVKO, the European Parliament`s Standing Rapporteur on Azerbaijan and Andrey KOVATCHEV, the European Parliament`s Standing Rapporteur on Armenia made a joint statement on 23 March 2020.
At the Meeting of the Milli Majlis Labour and Social Policy Committee
Chairman of the Milli Majlis Committee for Labour and Social Policy Musa Guliyev brought up the subject of reviving the national territories liberated under Commander-in-Chief and President Ilham Aliyev as he took the floor at the scheduled committee meeting on 19 March.
A Meeting with Netherlands Ambassador at Milli Majlis
The Leader of the Milli Majlis Working Group for the interparliamentary connections Azerbaijan-the Netherlands Eldar Guliyev had a meeting with the Ambassador of the Kingdom of the Netherlands to the Azerbaijan Republic Pauline Eizema on 18 March.
Chair of Milli Majlis Sahiba Gafarova Met with Ambassador of Republic of Belarus to Azerbaijan
Chair of the Milli Majlis Sahiba Gafarova met with the Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Ambassador of the Republic of Belarus to Azerbaijan Andrey Ravkov on 18 March.