Larijani to attend IPU meet in Switzerland

Majlis Speaker Ali Larijani is to partake in 125th Inter-parliamentary Union meeting in Bern, Switzerland this weekend. The four days meeting begins in 16 October in which parliamentarians from 120 countries of the world including Iran will discuss different political and socio-economic issues. Larijani will participate in the union general assembly and inter-parliamentarian council and will give a lecture in the international peace and security committee about recent developments in the Middle East and North Africa. He will meet his counterparts from all over the world and discuss the matters of mutual interest regionally and internationally on the sidelines of the meeting. The parliamentarians will discuss about the role of parliaments in the process of redistributing power in the international arena, their role in removing the key challenges in front of women and children health care in sustainable development committees and about democracy. Nuclear weapons and the international concern about financial crisis are the subjects to be discussed in two extraordinary separate meetings on the sidelines of the 125th IPU meeting. IPU which its main headquarter is in Bern, hold the meetings twice a year being hosted by one of 157 member states. Larijani will also visit Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan on his way back home from Bern, IRNA reported.