DUSHANBE, October 13, 2015, Asia-Plus – Nourullo Oqilzoda, the deputy head of the Majlisi Namoyandagon (Tajikistan’s lower chamber of parliament) Committee on Science, Education, Culture and Youth Policy also the head of the Majlisi Namoyandagon working group for cooperation with the House of Representatives (the lower house of the Belarus parliament), yesterday met in the Belarusian capital, Minsk, with Alexander Tsetsokho, the head of the House of Representatives Permanent Commission for Health Care, Physical Culture, Family and Youth Policy.
According to the Tajik Embassy in Minsk, Tajik Ambassador to Belarus Qozidavalt Qoimdodov and Alexander Segodnik, the head of the House of Representatives Permanent Commission for Education, Culture and Science, also attended the meeting.
The meeting reportedly focused on the issues related to parliamentarian cooperation between the two countries. The two sides, in particular, exchanged views on improvement of legal foundation of educational cooperation between the two countries.
They agreed to hold the next meeting of the working groups for parliamentary cooperation in Minsk before the end of this year.
Mr. Nourullo Oqilzoda was in Minsk to monitor the Belarusian presidential elections that took place on October 11.
The Belarusian bicameral parliament is called the National Assembly of the Republic of Belarus. The two chambers of the National Assembly are: the Council of the Republic (upper house) and the House of Representatives (lower house). While each chamber has specific duties, both chambers have the ability to veto the decrees of local administrations that deviate from the Constitution of Belarus.
The chambers of the National Assembly are convened to two regular sessions every year: the first session opens October 2 and its duration cannot be more than 80 days; the second session opens April 2 and does not last more than 90 days. The House of Representatives and the Council of the Republic may be convened to an extraordinary session. Extraordinary sessions are convened under a particular agenda upon an initiative of the President upon a request of at least two-thirds majority of the full membership of each of the chambers.
