Al-Ghanim: AIPU affirms support to Saudi Arabia

CAIRO, Jan 7 (KUNA) -- President of the Arab Inter-Parliamentary Union (AIPU) and Kuwait parliament speaker Marzouq Al-Ghanim affirmed AIPU's support to Saudi Arabia in the face of its current challenges.
Al-Ghanim made this remark to the press, on Thursday, after meeting up with Secretary-General of the Arab League Nabil Al-Araby.
"As an Arab parliament, we confirm our support to Saudi Arabia, one of the AIPU members, against any violations that have been done to it, most recently the attacks on its embassy and its diplomatic missions in Iran," Al-Ghanim said.
On his meeting with Al-Araby, Al-Ghanim described it as "constructive" and had many "eye-to-eye" views on several regional challenges and developments, especially regarding the Palestine file. He stressed that there is an existing cooperation among AIPU, Arab Parliament and Arab League in order to "unify stances" and "face trials." AIPU is currently working on regaining Egypt's membership in the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU), which mainly depends on the results of Geneva's recent meeting and House of Representatives' election on January 10.
Once Egypt gets its membership back, then it will be able to resume its important role in Arab parliaments.
The next IPU meeting will be in Zambia which will discuss many serious global challenges, hence, Arab parliaments should exert many efforts to come together in the event, Al-Ghanim pointed out. (end) ms.nfm