Egypt's Parliament speaker heads for Geneva to participate in IPU ceremony

CAIRO – 13 September 2022:Parliament Speaker Hanafy Gebaly heads on Tuesday for Geneva to participate in an interactive seminar held by the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) on the 25th anniversary of issuing Universal Declaration on Democracy.

Prominent experts in the field of democracy and parliamentarians from all over the world will attend the seminar.

Gebaly will review in his speech the Egyptian national vision for boosting democracy and the steps taken by the Egyptian state in this respect.

The Eighth Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) Global Conference of Young Parliamentarians had kicked off, June 15, 2022, in the Red Sea resort city of Sharm El Sheikh under the auspices of H.E. President Abdel Fattah El Sisi, President of the Arab Republic of Egypt.

The two-day conference was held in cooperation between the Egyptian House of Representatives and the Inter-Parliamentary Union.

It was attended by Speaker of the Egyptian House of Representatives Chancellor Dr. Hanafy El Gebali and President of the Inter-Parliamentary Union Mr.  Duarte Pacheco, along with parliamentary delegations from more than 60 countries and international watchdogs.

The conference was planned to address the issue of climate change from the viewpoint of young parliamentarians. It is the first time that a country holds a separate parliamentary conference a few months before hosting a session of the Conference of the Parties (COP) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), which demonstrates Egypt’s strong will to crystallize an organized and just global effort at all governmental and legislative levels to combat the negative impact of climate change threatening the capabilities of the entire world.