Speaker of the Milli Majlis Sahiba Gafarova met with the President of this organization Adel bin Abdul Rahman Al-Asumi at the headquarters of the Arab Parliament within the framework of her official visit to the Arab Republic of Egypt.

The Milli Majlis told APA that Al-Asumi, who welcomed the Azerbaijani parliamentary delegation, said that this meeting will make an important contribution to the further expansion of our relations.

He stated that the organization he leads attaches great importance to relations with the Non-Aligned Movement Parliamentary Network, and highly appreciated Azerbaijan's successful chairmanship of this cooperation platform.

According to him, Azerbaijan is doing great work for the creation and institutional development of the Parliamentary Network.

The president of the Arab Parliament recalled the participation of the Non-Aligned Movement Parliamentary Network in both the founding meeting held in Madrid and the first Baku conference, saying that both events were organized at a high level.

He also noted that the Arab Parliament pays special attention to international cooperation issues.

Speaker Sahiba Ghafarova congratulated Al-Asoumi on being re-elected as the president of the Arab Parliament and wished her and the organization she leads success.

Recalling the meetings with the President of the Arab Parliament within the framework of the events of the Non-Aligned Movement Parliamentary Network and other international parliamentary organizations, Speaker Sahiba Gafarova said that the discussions held at these meetings were useful.

Speaker Sahiba Gafarova said that the Azerbaijan Milli Majlis has good relations with many of the member parliaments of the Arab Parliament, and emphasized that her current official visit to the Arab Republic of Egypt is an indicator of this.

He also added that the parliaments of the member countries of this organization are also members of the Non-Aligned Movement Parliamentary Network.

The chairman of the Milli Majlis drew attention to the fact that the Non-Aligned Movement Parliamentary Network was established in Madrid in November 2021 at the initiative of the President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev.

The 1st Conference was held in Baku on June 30-July 1, 2022.

Sahiba Ghafarova thanked Al-Asumi for her participation in both conferences and invited her to the next conference of the network to be held in Manama, the capital of Bahrain, on March 13.

The chairman of the Milli Majlis also informed about the work done in preparation for the second conference.

Sahiba Gafarova pointed out that the Parliamentary Network is expanding cooperation with other international parliamentary organizations.

According to him, today there are wide opportunities for such cooperation.

Because peace, security, sustainable development, solidarity, dialogue are the principles underlying our activities.

All these organizations serve the same purpose.

Speaker Sahiba Gafarova highly appreciated the adoption of the decision to grant observer status to the Non-Aligned Movement Parliamentary Network at the plenary session of the Arab Parliament held on January 22.

With this, the number of international parliamentary organizations with which this cooperation platform has obtained observer status has already reached 3.

These are the Asian Parliamentary Assembly, the Parliamentary Union of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation and the Arab Parliament.

He gave extensive information about the burying of mines in the territories of Azerbaijan by Armenia.

The speaker drew attention to the fact that during the occupation, all cities and regions of Azerbaijan, settlements, infrastructure, historical, cultural monuments, religious monuments and mosques were completely destroyed.

Azerbaijan's mosques have been insulted, which is an insult not only to our people, but to the entire Islamic world.

At the meeting, the Chairman of the Milli Majlis also informed about the terrorist act committed against the Embassy of the Republic of Azerbaijan in the Islamic Republic of Iran on January 27 of this year.

He said that as a result of this terrorist attack, one employee of our embassy was killed and two employees were injured.

The chairman of the Milli Majlis said that we consider this as a terrorist act and we demand a fair investigation of the incident and that the criminals receive a decent punishment.

At the end of the meeting, a Memorandum of Understanding on cooperation between the Arab Parliament and the Non-Aligned Movement Parliamentary Network was signed.

Speaker of Milli Majlis Sahiba Gafarova said that the signing of this document is very important in terms of institutionalizing our relations.