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DOHA:The Chair of the Twelve Plus Group, European countries, Canada, Australia and New Zealand in the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU), Duarte Pacheco, praised the success of the State of Qatar in organising the 140th IPU General Assembly, and the important decisions and recommendations reached in this assembly.
In a speech at the closing session of the 140th Inter-Parliamentary Union General Assembly, Pacheco said that many people were scornful of approval for Qatar to host this assembly, believing that Doha would not be able to organise a successful session under the blockade, but it has proved to everyone the opposite after organising the most successful General Assembly despite the ongoing sanctions imposed on it.
He added that Qatar had disappointed those and succeeded in organising this edition of the assembly, and Qatar has become a more developed, richer independent state. When the state is independent, it can determine its future and the future of its people. This applies to Qatar, he said.
For her part, Chairperson of the 29th Session of the Women's Parliamentarians Forum Reem Al Mansouri called for equality in employment, especially in communities that still need efforts to engage more women in all economic sectors and leadership positions, raising a number of important demands, including promoting girls' education, especially in science, technology, trade and finance, disseminating a culture of equality and confronting stereotypes that keep women away from jobs with a lucrative return and from economic decision-making.
Presenting the Forum's Report before the IPU, she called upon the IPU to support the adoption of a new instrument through the ILO to combat violence and harassment in the workplace, stressing the need to address inequality in the world's parliaments by making them more gender-sensitive institutions so that women could be present in sufficient numbers to contribute and assume leadership roles in their countries.
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