DUSHANBE, March 27, 2012, Asia-Plus — The session of the Council of the CIS Inter-Parliamentary Assembly opened in Almaty, Kazakhstan today and on Monday the meeting participants – parliament speakers from Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Russia, Tajikistan and Ukraine, as well as representatives of other international parliamentary organizations – held bilateral meetings, Muhammadato Sultonov, a spokesman for the Majlisi Namoyandagon (Tajikistan’s lower chamber of parliament), told Asia-Plus Tuesday afternoon.
According to him, the Majlisi Namoyandagon Chairman Shukurjon Zuhurov held talks with Asilbek Zheyenbekov, Chairman of Kyrgyzstan’s Parliament, Kairat Mami, Chairman of the Upper Chamber (Senate) of Kazakhstan’s Parliament, and Nurlan Nigmatulin, Chairman of the Lower House (Majilis) of Kazakhstan’s Parliament.
The talks reportedly centered upon the integration processes within the CIS area.
Today, Shukurjon Zuhurov also held talks with Afghanistan”s Speaker of the Lower House Abdul Raouf Ibrahimi. The two discussed issues related to expansion of inter-parliamentary cooperation between the two countries, Sultonov said.
