On September 06, Speaker of Parliament of Armenia Alen Simonyan and his delegation departed for Austria on a three-day working visit to take part in the Fifth World Conference of Speakers of Parliament and the First Global Parliamentary Summit on Counter-Terrorism in Vienna, the Parliament informed.
The Conference will officially launch on September 7 in a format of panel discussions.
The topics will relate to the issues of the parliaments, human rights and their full exercise, COVID-19 pandemic, etc.
Armenian Speaker of Parliament Alen Simonyan will deliver remarks at the First Global Parliamentary Summit on Counter-Terrorism, presenting the study about the rights and needs of those affected from terrorism.
The 5th World Conference of Speakers of Parliaments is organized by the Inter-Parliamentary Union, the United Nations and the Austrian Parliament.
The first round meeting of the 5th World Conference of Speakers of Parliaments was held in 2020 online.
In the first stage, a declaration was adopted entitled ‘Parliamentary Role in Ensuring More Effective Multilateralism for the Peace and Sustainable Development of the People of the Planet’.
