DUSHANBE, November 24, 2014, Asia-Plus – On Sunday November 23, Tajik Foreign Minister Sirojiddin Aslov met in Kuwait City with the National Assembly (Kuwait parliament) Speaker Marzouq Ali Al-Ghanem.
The Tajik MFA information department reports the talks between the two sides dealt with bilateral ties and various issues of joint concern.
Aslov conveyed gratitude of Shukurjon Zuhurov, the head o Tajikistan’s lower chamber (Majlisi Namoyandagon) of parliament to the National Assembly speaker for invitation for a Tajik parliamentary delegation to visit Kuwait.
Tajik foreign minister noted that mutual visits of the parliamentary delegations of the two nations will promote further expansion of bilateral cooperation between Tajikistan and Kuwait, the source said.
The National Assembly, known as the Majlis Al-Umma (House of the Nation), is the legislature of Kuwait. The Constitutional Court constitutionally dissolved the house in June 2013, subsequently issuing a decree for new elections.
The fifty-seat house is elected every four years. Currently there are five geographically distributed electoral districts. Every eligible citizen is entitled to one vote. The ten candidates with the most votes in each district win seats. Cabinet ministers (including the prime minister) are granted automatic membership in the Assembly, which increases the number of members in the house from fifty to sixty-six. The Cabinet ministers have the same rights as the elected MPs, with the following two exceptions: they do not participate in the work of committees, and they cannot vote when an interpolation leads to a no-confidence vote against one of the Cabinet members.
