House Speaker heads to Geneva for IPU meetings

CAIRO - 16 June 2018 - House of Representatives Speaker Ali Abdel Aal left here on Saturday, heading for Geneva to participate in the meetings of the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) Sub-Committee on Finance as well as the 279th meeting of its Executive Committee that are set to kick off on Sunday and will run until Monday.

The meeting of the IPU Sub-Committee on Finance is set to discuss the union's budget for 2019.

The extraordinary session of the IPU Executive Committee will take up proposals presented by the member states on the union's regulations, the statement added.

The Executive Committee is the administrative organ of the Inter-Parliamentary Union.

Abdel Aal was elected as member of the Executive Committee to represent the Arab Group during the 136th IPU Assembly that was held in April, 2017.