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BAKU, Azerbaijan, March 15. A decision was made
to establish a Parliamentary Support Group in order to support the
initiatives put forward by the President of Azerbaijan and the
Chairman of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) Ilham Aliyev at the
Summit of the NAM Contact Group in response to COVID-19, held on
March 2 this year in Baku, trend reports via the Azerbaijani Parliament.
According to the parliament, the above decision was made during
the 2nd conference of the NAM Parliamentary Network (PN) in Manama,
held on March 13.
The conference, chaired by the Chair of the Azerbaijani
Parliament and the NAM Parliamentary Network Sahiba Gafarova was
attended by over 300 delegates, including speakers from 20
parliaments and delegations from more than 60 countries.
The event was marked by the adoption of a number of important
documents.
According to the decision proposed by the Azerbaijani Parliament
and unanimously supported by the organization's member parliaments,
the main task of the Parliamentary Group, created within the
framework of the NAM Parliamentary Network, will be to support and
promote at the world level the initiatives of President Ilham
Aliyev regarding the Global Appeals for Support to African
countries and developing small island states, as well as appeals to
the UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres for the creation of a
high-level UN panel to develop appropriate recommendations for
global recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Manama Declaration, adopted as the final document of the
conference, reflects the common position of the member parliaments
regarding the challenges and opportunities for modern cooperation,
current and future priorities of the activity of the NAM
Parliamentary Network.
The conference also adopted a decision 'On granting observer
status to international parliamentary organizations in the NAM
Parliamentary Network”.
By this decision, the OIC Parliamentary Union, the Parliamentary
Assembly of the Economic Cooperation Organization, the
International Congress of Parliamentarians and the Parliamentary
Assembly of the Black Sea Economic Cooperation Organization were
granted observer status.
The interest of other international parliamentary organizations
in cooperation with the NAM Parliamentary Network testifies to the
strengthening of the role of the parliamentary network in
international parliamentary diplomacy.
The conference also adopted decision to make a number of changes
to the rules of the Parliamentary Network, aimed at ensuring a more
flexible and efficient functioning of the network.
The NAM Parliamentary Network was established during the
Inaugural Meeting on November 28, 2021, in Madrid, Spain with the
initiative of President Ilham Aliyev. At the meeting, the Madrid
Declaration on the establishment of the NAM PN was adopted.
The First Conference of NAM PN was held in Baku, Azerbaijan on
June 30 -July 1, 2022. Nearly 400 participants from more than 40
parliaments and eight international inter-parliamentary
organizations worldwide participated in the Baku Conference. NAM PN
Baku Conference was an important milestone in the institutional
development of the interparliamentary organization. During the
Conference Baku Statute (Statute on working modalities of the
Non-Aligned Movement Parliamentary Network) and Baku Declaration
were adopted.