Al-Jeeb underscores importance of parliamentary diplomacy

Director of the Parliamentary Relations and Media of the Shura Council, Fawzia Al-Jeeb, today, delivered a speech, on behalf of the Representatives Council's Acting Secretary General, Jamal Zuwaid, before the meeting of the Parliamentary Association's General Secretaries held on the sidelines of the 129th Inter-Parliamentary Union in Geneva. In her speech, Al-Jeeb underlined the importance of the parliamentary diplomacy that has become the States' cornerstone to achieve their aspirations at the international level. She added that the Kingdom of Bahrain has always been keen to take interest in the parliamentary diplomacy, in line with the importance of its role in bolstering relations and cooperation with other countries' parliaments to establish the principles of international peace and security and to actively participate in planning a better future for the world. She noted the House of Representatives and the Shura Council's Joint work through the development of legal provisions that allow the two Councils to exercise their diplomatic duties by the establishment of a Joint Elected Committee headed by the President of the House of Representatives and membership of four members of Shura and Representatives Councils that tasked with unifying goals and efforts of the Committee's members in their international participations.