The Culture Committee of the Milli Majlis held its first meeting of the spring parliamentary session on 24 January. The meeting was a virtual one; the deputy chairman of the committee Fazil Mustafa started it by telling the participants of the agenda.

Then, the 2021 autumn session performance report was presented for consideration. Mr Mustafa was saying that there had been 14 committee meetings with 21 issues considered; there had been 6 draft laws including those that had contained amendments and addenda to effective laws. Also, the committee members had joined the debates on the 2022 State Budget Bill and the Tourism Bill, having made relevant remarks and suggestions in both cases.

The committee had received 1,012 applications during the autumn session of last year; they had all been considered and forwarded to appropriate departments for the subsequent action, Mr Mustafa said.

The report was followed by the 2022 spring session work plan, with the deputy committee chairman noting that it was planned to discuss the Bills due to come up in the context of various legislative initiatives as well as the Bill ‘On the Protection of Intangible Cultural Heritage’. The work programme also envisages generation of opinion statements and suggestions concerning the Bills that will be sent over by the other parliamentary committees. There will be hearings as well. Besides, the committee members will be receiving and hearing out citizens, processing incoming appeals and requests and drawing up a report on the work that is to be carried out during the current session.

The MPs Sabir Rustamkhanli and Novruzali Aslanov stressed that both the chairman and the members of the committee had been working efficiently and productively throughout the past session. They also voiced their ideas and suggestions regarding the current-session work plan.

The 2021 autumn session performance report and the 2022 spring session work plan were both approved eventually.

The other committee members Ulviya Agayeva, Nizami Jafarov, Aziz Alakbarov, Javanshir Feyziyev, Ulviya Hamzayeva and Mikhail Zabelin were taking part in the online meeting, too.

The Press and Public Relations Department
The Milli Majlis