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By Talal Al-Kayed (with photos)
DAMASCUS, Sept 26 (KUNA) -- The second ordinary session of the Arab
Interior Parliament (AIP) which opened here earlier Sunday gains additional
significance as it discusses hot regional issues, Kuwaiti MP Ali Al-Deqbasi
said.
"Members of the AIP committees on foreign, political, national security,
social, economic and financial, legislative and legal, human rights, and women
and youths affairs are discussing a range of regional hot issues of common
Arab interest," he told KUNA.
"The panelists focus on inter-Arab trade and investment exchanges and the
quest for economic integration as well as the recently resumed
Palestinian-Israeli direct peace talks.
The political committee debates the latest developments of the Middle East
peace process, the situation in the occupied Palestinian territories and the
inter-Palestinian reconciliation.
It is also discussing the Iranian occupation of three UAE islands in the
Arabian Gulf as well as the situations in Iraq, Sudan, Yemen and the occupied
Syrian Golan Heights, he pointed out.
"On top of the agenda of the legislative and legal affairs committee are
the questions of brain drain which impacts negatively on development in the
Arab countries, the growing numbers of Arab immigrants, and the suffering of
the Palestinian and Iraqi refugees," Al-Deqbasi revealed.
The conferees are mulling the arrangements for an array of symposia on
investment promotion, immigration, desertification, food security and refugees
to be organized in collaboration with the Arab League.
"We, aware that a great part of the Arab capital goes to foreign
destinations, lobby for legislations to protect mutual investments and
encourage Arab investors to do business inside the Arab world with a view to
creating new jobs and reviving our economies.
"The AIP is striving to become a high-powered decision-making body unlike
many other Arab mechanisms," Al-Deqbasi disclosed.
The Arab MPs will hold a plenary meeting on Tuesday at the Syrian People's
Assembly to approve the final recommendations of the three-day gathering.
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