Majlisi Milli (Tajikistan’s upper chamber of parliament) Chairman Rustam Emomali will represent Tajikistan at the autumn session of the Inter-Parliamentary Assembly of the CIS Member States (IPA CIS) that will take place in Kyrgyzstan’s capital, Bishkek, from November 16-17.
Kyrgyzstan’s national news agency Kabar reports that on the first day of the session, the heads of parliaments of the CIS member nations will hold a meeting of the Council of the IPA CIS.
In the first half of November 16, meetings of the CIS Youth Interparliamentary Assembly and the standing commissions of the IPA CIS on political issues and international cooperation and on social policy and human rights will be held.
Also on this day, the CIS parliamentarians will take part in an international conference dedicated to the 85th anniversary of the Jogorku Kenesh (Supreme Council – Kyrgyzstan’s parliament).
On November 17, an international conference will be held in honor of the 95th anniversary of the birth of Chingiz Aitmatov with the participation of the heads of parliamentary delegations of the CIS member nations.
On the same day, the 56th plenary meeting of the Inter-Parliamentary Assembly of the CIS Member States will be held.
The IPA CIS is a parliamentary assembly for delegations from the national parliaments of the member countries of the CIS. The IPA CIS was established on March 27, 1992 in Almaty (Kazakhstan) under the terms of the Agreement signed by Heads of founding parliaments. On May 26, 1995, CIS leaders signed the Convention on the Interparliamentary Assembly of Member Nations of the Commonwealth of Independent States] eventually ratified by nine CIS parliaments. The overarching mission is law-making and alignment of national laws in the CIS. The IPA is housed in the Tauride Palace in a historical landmark of Saint Petersburg.
The IPA CIS acts as the consultative parliamentary body of the CIS established to discuss problems of parliamentary cooperation. Its activity concentrates on the development of the model legislation, which could then be implemented by the Member States on the voluntary basis, and serve as a tool of dissemination of the best practices across the CIS. The Assembly is involved in the development of integration processes in the CIS. The IPA CIS regularly hosts specialized conferences, seminars and symposiums, which provide a platform for debate of the governmental and non-governmental actors. Another mission of the IPA CIS is election monitoring.
