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Kuwait foils bid to suspend IPU membership of Egypt, Tunisia |
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Sunday, 11 September 2011 00:26 |
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GENEVA: Kuwaiti MPs, representing the Arab group in the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU), on Thursday succeeded in foiling a bid to suspend Egypt's and Tunisia's membership of the union.
Kuwaiti MP Marzoug Al-Ghanim said that he and his fellow legislators persistently opposed a proposal stipulating the suspension of two Arab states' IPU membership.
Al-Ghanim, who travelled directly to Geneva from Britain, indicated that other proposals presented by the delegation of Kuwaiti legislators in the name of the Arab group were taken into consideration; these included recommendations to remove those sections of the union's five year strategy document that contradict Islamic Sharia, and abstaining from shunning any Gulf legislative body for any reason.
The IPU's new strategy document is free of any insinuation of discrimination against member parliaments, such as alluding to some legislative bodies as being of advanced nations and others as developed or developing countries.
The Kuwaiti lawmakers are currently taking part in a two-day meeting of the IPU's executive committee, with the recommendations to be adopted by the commission to be referred to the IPU convention, due to be held in Berne in mid-October. - KUNA
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