AIPU executive committee recommends Martin Chungong as IPU chief

The executive committee of the Arab Inter Parliamentary Union (AIPU) met here on Saturday ahead of the Union's 20th conference hosted by Kuwait, which is to be held tomorrow with lawmakers from Arab parliaments attending. In today's committee meeting, the recommendation was made to support the representative from Cameroon Martin Chungong for the post of secretary general of the Inter Parliamentary Union (IPU). Committee chair Faisal Al-Shayea said that the committee approved the adoption of a work-paper on the relationship between the IPU and the UN, which the IPU plans to discuss in detail in its meeting in Geneva on Jan. 28-29. The work-paper is presented by the UAE. The committee also discussed the AIPU's financial standing for 2013 and its budget for 2014 and set the date and place for its next conference. It also set up a subcommittee to formulate the recommendations and the final communique for the Union's 20th conference. Today's meeting was attended by delegations from 17 Arab parliaments and Shura councils with exceptions from Tunisia, Egypt, Syria, Comoro Islands, and Mauritania.