BAKU, Azerbaijan, October 20. Kyrgyzstan has
taken over the chairmanship of the Parliamentary Meeting of Turkic
States (TURKPA) from Kazakhstan because the Meeting’s newest conferences
opened in Bishkek on October 20, the press service of the Jogorku
Kenesh (Kyrgyzstan’s parliament) stated.
The conferences are being held on the Yrys-Ordo congress corridor.
Parliament leaders first gathered for a session of the Meeting’s
Council, the place the chairmanship was formally handed over. Aibek
Dadebay, chairman of Kazakhstan’s Kurultai, handed the ceremonial
gavel to Marlen Mamataliev, chairman of the Jogorku Kenesh.
Marlen Mamataliev then chaired the remainder of the session and
introduced the priorities of the Kyrgyz chairmanship. He stated
parliamentary diplomacy performs a serious function in strengthening ties
between fraternal peoples. TURKPA now faces new duties, he stated, and
cooperation shouldn’t be restricted to celebrating shared historic
and cultural closeness however ought to ship concrete outcomes that
have an effect on residents’ on a regular basis lives.
Among the many priorities he named had been joint work on laws for
digital transformation and synthetic intelligence, stronger
mechanisms for increasing transport and financial hyperlinks, higher
involvement of younger individuals in parliamentary processes and public
life, and the event of schooling, science, tradition and
humanitarian ties as a separate monitor of parliamentary
diplomacy.
Marlen Mamataliev additionally stated geopolitical and financial shifts are
accelerating whereas transport corridors and power and meals safety
are rising in significance. In these situations, he stated,
cooperation amongst Turkic states primarily based on mutual belief and shared
pursuits is important.
Throughout its chairmanship, Kyrgyzstan will even pay explicit
consideration to interplay between standing committees, cooperation
amongst younger lawmakers and ladies parliamentarians, and ties between
member parliaments and professional communities, he added.
Leaders of different member parliaments then spoke and supplied their
personal proposals for deepening cooperation. Points on the agenda of
the fifteenth plenary session had been additionally mentioned.
In the meantime, Speaker of the Azerbaijani Parliament Sahiba Gafarova
and Numan Kurtulmuş, Speaker of the Grand Nationwide Meeting of
Türkiye, attended the Council session.
