Ulaanbaatar
Representatives from 28 Political Parties of Asia to Convene in Ulaanbaatar
Politics
Ulaanbaatar, August 4, 2023 /MONTSAME/. The 6th Meeting of the ICAPP Youth Wing and the 7th Meeting of the ICAPP Women’s Wing of the International Conference of Asian Political Parties (ICAPP) is to take place in Ulaanbaatar on August 4-7.
The 6th Meeting of the ICAPP Youth Wing will be held under the theme “Youth Participation in Social Dialogue for Social and Economic Progress After the Pandemic” while the theme of the 7th Meeting of the ICAPP Women’s Wing will be “Supporting Women’s Leadership for Making the Post-pandemic Revival Gender Sensitive”. In other words, issues on ways to increase youth and women’s participation in politics, and possibilities of economic support to women and youth after the pandemic will be the main topics of the meeting discussions and the meeting gives opportunity to the participants to learn from experiences of political parties of other countries.
Representatives of 28 political parties from 21 countries have arrived in Mongolia to participate in the meeting, which was postponed twice due to the pandemic. Besides representatives from Asian countries such as Russia, China, South Korea, Turkiye, Vietnam, Laos, Indonesia, Philippines, Pakistan, Malaysia, Iraq, Georgia, Myanmar, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Thailand, and Bangladesh, political parties’ representatives of Ghana from Africa, and Spain from Europe came to take part in the Meeting.
ICAPP was launched in Manila, Philippines in September 2000 to promote exchanges and cooperation among political parties with various ideologies in Asia and Oceania. As of 2018, more than 350 political parties from 52 countries in the region have joined the ICAPP. As political parties join the ICAPP regardless of their political and ideological backgrounds, the Mongolian People's Party (MPRP), Democratic Party, and HUN Party are the members from Mongolia. The Mongolian People's Party has been actively participating in the ICAPP activities since 2004 and was elected and has been working as a member of the Standing Committee since 2013.
Park Ro-byug, Secretary General of the
ICAPP visited Mongolia in
June 2019. During the visit, he met with MPRP Secretary General D.
Amarbayasgalan, where the MPRP General Secretary made the initiative to
organize the 6th Meeting of the ICAPP Youth Wing and 7th
Meeting of the ICAPP Women’s Wing in Ulaanbaatar. The initiative was approved by the ICAPP
Standing Committee at its 33rd meeting held in Malaysia on December 13, 2019.
