Ulaanbaatar
World Conference of Speakers of Parliament being held
Politics
Ulaanbaatar /MONTSAME/. The Fifth World Conference of Speakers of Parliament is being organized virtually by the Inter-Parliament Union (IPU) in cooperation with the Parliament of Austria and the United Nations on August-19-20.
Representing the Parliament of Mongolia, Speaker G.Zandanshatar, Chairman of the Standing Committee on Innovation and Online Policy, Member of the Committee on the UN Affairs of the IPU, MP N.Uchral and MP S.Amarsaikhan participated in the opening ceremony held yesterday.
More than 250 participants including UN representatives and over
150 speakers, members and specialists of the parliaments have been invited to
the conference aiming to strengthen international parliamentary cooperation in the
fight against the COVID-19 pandemic and climate and economic crisis facing
humanity.
The World Conference of Speakers of Parliament is organized every 5 years in cooperation with the UN.
The conference was initially scheduled to be held in Vienna, Austria under the theme “Parliamentary leadership for more effective multilateralism that delivers peace and sustainable development for the people and planet”. However, it has been postponed until 2021 due to the global outbreak of the pandemic. Therefore, for the first time, the Speakers are meeting virtually to discuss the measures to be taken by parliaments on a wide range of issues, including the pandemic and global governance, sustainable economies and climate emergencies.
Speaker G.Zandanshatar will deliver a speech at the panel “Forging inclusive and sustainable economies that deliver well-being and justice for all” today, reports the Media and Public Relations Department of the Parliament.
