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32593
Thu, 11/27/2008 - 12:53
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DPR HOSTING ASIAN PARLIAMENTARY ASSEMBLY MEETING
Jakarta, Nov 26 (ANTARA) - The Indonesian House of Representatives (DPR) is preparing for an Asian Parliamentary Assembly (APA) meeting to be held on November 27-29, 2008.
The organizing committee set up by the House's Secretariat General was busy on Wednesday decorating and preparing the Pustaka Loka room which is to be used for the opening ceremony.
President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono is scheduled to open the third APA. The business sessions of the assembly will be held at the Sultan Hotel in South Jakarta.
The opening ceremony will start at 9.30 AM with speeches by Speaker Agung Laksono and APA President Ali Larijani who is also Iran's house speaker.
The APA will be participated in by 250 delegates from 31 parliaments across Asia. The APA will also be attended by observers from international organizations such as the ASEAN Parliament, the Inter Parliamentary Union, the Eurasian Economic Community (EEC) and the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC).
In the meeting this year APA will elect a new president. Agung Laksono is expected to assume the presidency for the next two-year term. In the meeting, APA Secretary General Nejad Hossenian will also present a report from former APA president Haddad Adel.
After the opening ceremony, the chiefs of the delegations will plant trees on the Parliament's premises as part of a one-billion tree planting program in Asia.
Major topics on the APA assembly's agenda include ways to overcome the ongoing global financial crisis. Therefore, the APA meeting will feature Indonesia's Finance Minister Sri Mulyani as one of the speakers.
Agung Laksono as Indonesia's House Speaker said that APA meeting would formulate an alternative financial system. He explained that the current international financial system needed to be revised because it had proven vulnarable to crises.
The organizing committee set up by the House's Secretariat General was busy on Wednesday decorating and preparing the Pustaka Loka room which is to be used for the opening ceremony.
President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono is scheduled to open the third APA. The business sessions of the assembly will be held at the Sultan Hotel in South Jakarta.
The opening ceremony will start at 9.30 AM with speeches by Speaker Agung Laksono and APA President Ali Larijani who is also Iran's house speaker.
The APA will be participated in by 250 delegates from 31 parliaments across Asia. The APA will also be attended by observers from international organizations such as the ASEAN Parliament, the Inter Parliamentary Union, the Eurasian Economic Community (EEC) and the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC).
In the meeting this year APA will elect a new president. Agung Laksono is expected to assume the presidency for the next two-year term. In the meeting, APA Secretary General Nejad Hossenian will also present a report from former APA president Haddad Adel.
After the opening ceremony, the chiefs of the delegations will plant trees on the Parliament's premises as part of a one-billion tree planting program in Asia.
Major topics on the APA assembly's agenda include ways to overcome the ongoing global financial crisis. Therefore, the APA meeting will feature Indonesia's Finance Minister Sri Mulyani as one of the speakers.
Agung Laksono as Indonesia's House Speaker said that APA meeting would formulate an alternative financial system. He explained that the current international financial system needed to be revised because it had proven vulnarable to crises.
