Egypt urges parliamentary declaration on peace, anti-terrorism
Regional-Egypt-International, Politics, 5/2/2000

Ahmed Fathi Sorour, Speaker of the People's Assembly urged participants in the International Parliamentary Union (IPU) Conference currently in session in Amman, Jordan to issue a world declaration on peace, security and anti-terrorism.

Sorour delivered Egypt's speech before the conference Monday, underscoring a proposed declaration over commitment to be put into principles of the human international law.

He voiced Egypt's support for the Security Council Resolution to interfere to halt violations of this law.

"Developing countries must be helped to merge into world economy and have wider opportunities to obtain technology," said Sorour.

"President Mubarak and King Abdullah II share identical viewpoints on the Middle East peace process and they are constantly holding consultations," said Minister of Parliament Affairs Kamal Al Shazly.

In statements to Jordanian TV aired Monday, Shazly said it was high time to direct all efforts to development. He called on Israel to withdraw from occupied Arab territories.

Shazli is attending a meeting of the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU).

The Egyptian parliamentary delegation will highlight Mubarak's initiative to declare the Middle East free of all mass destruction weapons and to hold an international conference on terrorism under the UN auspices, added the Minister.

The IPU conference decided to suspend the membership of both Cote D'Ivoire and Pakistan, in view of the current political conditions in the two countries and the dissolution of their national parliament.

The Union's Secretary-General said after the session, held earlier in the day, that suspending the membership of Cote D'Ivoire was based on one of the Union's laws and that it came as a result of the military coup which led to disbanding its parliament.

The IPU official drew a line between the Pakistani and Sudanese positions, saying that despite Egypt's proposals to delay the decision of suspending Sudan's membership, yet it came in light of President Omar Al Bashir's dissolution of the parliament on December 12 and the declaration of a three-month state of emergency.

The suggestion, nevertheless, was not approved by most of IPU's members.

Egypt's support to Sudan in this session comes within the framework of the brotherly relations binding the two states, an official statement said.

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