Lahore:
Participants in the joint conference of the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association (CPA) Southeast Asia urged the need to take collective measures to maintain peace in the region, dealing with terrorism with an iron hand, fighting against bad conditions economic and development.
They qualified the conference a vital platform for regional parliamentary collaboration while strengthening commitments to sustainable governance, democracy and collective regional progress.
The inaugural ceremony of the conference took place in the Punjab assembly. The event attended more than 100 representatives of 20 legislatures, including delegations from Sri Lanka, Maldives, United Kingdom, Zambia, Malaysia and Pakistan.
Distinguished guests included 13 speakers, 4 assistant speakers and 1 president. The President of the National Assembly Sardar Ayaz Sadiq honored the session as a chief guest while the president of the CPA, Dr. Christopher Kalila, praised the initiative as an essential stage for regional parliamentary commitment.
Addressing the conference, the president of the CPA, Dr. Kalila, said that the long -standing question of the CPA legal status was now approaching the resolution. The CPA status bill adopted its third reading in the House of Commons on December 18, 2024 and also received a royal consent.
Senator Pele Peter Tinggom of Malaysia said: “We had faced many challenges and it is necessary to take collective measures to meet these challenges.”
He said that global health crises emerged and “we have to declare health emergencies so that we can fight against comfortable diseases. We must maintain peace in the region and that the need for the time is to support Our savings.
CPA Secretary General Mataya said it was a new opportunity to make a strategy by doing legislation in a new direction. He stressed the importance of strengthening and stabilizing the Parliament.
The vice-president of the British House of Commons Nusrat Ghani said that constructive criticism of parliamentary democracy could help improve the democratic system. It also highlighted the need to make the ACP and IPA platforms more effective.
During the conference, Selangor Malaysia President Lau Weng San said that the Punjab assembly initiative to welcome the parliamentary conference was commendable and that the event would help participants understand and improve systems parliamentarians of the other.
The president of the Sindh Assembly, Syed Owais Qadir Shah, stressed the need to work on class divisions and minorities’ rights. “We have to promote regional and global relations,” he added.
The President of the Assembly of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP), Babar Saleem Swati, said: “We attended British history in which Parliament had been weakened and we now see the same practice in light of the law on law PECA and the ban on political parties. “
