Parliament to support Libyan request for 5+5 Speakers' meeting in Morocco

The meeting will be held in the margins of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Mediterranean’s 5th General Assembly being held in Morocco between the 28th and the 30th October 2010.

The Speaker will be communicating with the Moroccan organisers and with PAM about support for this request.

Frendo was on a bilateral visit to Libya on the 22nd and 23rd of September 2010 to meet Mr Mohammed Al Zwei, Secretary of the General People’s Congress and Mr Suleiman Shahoumi, Secretary of Foreign Affairs of the People’s Congress.

He extended an invitation for Mr Zwei to visit Malta to maintain the dialogue between the Maltese Parliament and Libya’s General People’s Congress, remarking that next year will be the 90th anniversary of the establishment of the Maltese Parliament.

Speaker Frendo remarked about the consensus in the Maltese Parliament about the importance of strong Malta-Libya relations and emphasised that his brief visit was to further strengthen these relations on a parliamentary level. He said that parliamentary diplomacy was today an accepted regular feature of international relations and represented a ‘soft’ approach to dialogue and communication between countries.