(MENAFN- Muscat Daily) Muscat -
Dr Khalid bin Salim al Saidi, Secretary General of the State Council, and Sheikh Ali bin Nasser al Mahrouqi, Secretary General of Majlis A'Shura, presented lectures to the visiting delegation of the 32nd Batch of the Command and Staff College on Wednesday.
As per a statement, the visit enabled the delegation to get better informed about the powers and roles of both the councils (State Council and Majlis A'Shura), their competences, roles in national decision-making and know more about their active contribution to the overall development of the sultanate.
Dr Saidi stressed that the democratic path in contemporary Omani political life has been a strategic choice since the beginning of the Blessed Renaissance under the wise leadership of His Majesty Sultan Qaboos bin Said.
He addressed the articles attributed to the State Council in the Basic Law of the State, which specify the number of its members, the appointment mechanism, the categories from which members are selected, the conditions of membership, the inadmissibility of combining them with the membership of the Majlis A'Shura as well as the legislative and regulatory powers. In addition, he referred to the council's divisions, namely the chairman, the bureau, the committees, the secretariat and their respective functions.
Dr Saidi detailed the council's terms of reference, legislative and supervisory powers and its role in discussing Draft Development Plans and the State Budget, reviewed statistics relating to the council's activities and achievements in the field of discussion of draft laws.
Sheikh Mahrouqi presented a lecture titled 'The tasks of Majlis A'Shura'. The lecture addressed the shura process of Oman, its development stages, the legislative and supervisory powers granted to Majlis A'Shura, which comprise the approval of draft laws referred by the government and proposals of draft laws.
It also touched on the financial powers that includes discussion of the Draft General Budget and development plans, draft economic and social agreements and the Annual Report of the State's Financial and Administrative Regulatory body.
The delegation also toured the premises of Council of Oman.
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