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ISLAMABAD:
Parliamentary leaders from Azerbaijan, Malaysia and the Maldives have underlined the need for stronger interparliamentary cooperation to address the global challenges of conflict, insecurity and climate change.
Speaking at the session of the Inter-Parliamentary Conference of Presidents (ISC) organized by the Senate of Pakistan, they praised Islamabad’s initiative to bring together lawmakers from across the world under the theme ‘Peace, Security and Development’.
First Deputy Speaker of Azerbaijan’s Milli Majlis (Parliament) Ali Ahmadov said the conference marked “a new chapter in parliamentary diplomacy”, allowing nations to collectively respond to global threats and humanitarian crises through dialogue and cooperation.
Earlier, Deputy Chairman of the Malaysian Senate, Senator Nur Jazlan bin Mohamed, warned that the world was witnessing the “largest number of active conflicts since World War II” and was facing a convergence of crises, from armed conflict and terrorism to climate change and cyber threats.
Participating in the general debate, Speaker of the Maldivian People’s Majlis Abdul Raheem Abdulla stated that peace, security and development are “inseparable realities that define our existence.”
