Speaker of Shura Council H E Hassan bin Abdullah Al Ghanim delivering his speech before the opening session of the 34th conference of the Arab Inter-Parliamentary Union in Baghdad, Iraq.
Baghdad: Speaker of Shura Council H E Hassan bin Abdullah Al Ghanim criticised the silence of the major powers, and the international community’s complacency towards the repeated crimes committed by the Israeli occupation authorities and the settlers’ militias in the occupied Palestinian territories.
In his speech before the opening session of the 34th conference of the Arab Inter-Parliamentary Union (AIPU) in Baghdad, Al Ghanim referred to the new massacre committed by the occupation forces last Wednesday, when they barbarically stormed Nablus using rockets and live bullets to leave dozens killed and injured.
The Speaker noted that Qatar considers that silence on these collective punitive measures implemented by the occupation authorities facilitate impunity, making all peace efforts become meaningless, and making the establishment of an independent Palestinian state within the borders of June 4, 1967, with East Jerusalem as its capital, impossible. He also praised the Arab parliaments' call for the enactment of international legislation to prohibit contempt of religion, stressing the need to include an emergency item on the agenda of the General Assembly of the Inter-Parliamentary Union, submitted on behalf of the Arab Parliamentary Group by Qatar’s Shura Council, on criminalising contempt of religion.
The Shura Council Speaker also praised the efforts made by all Arab countries in aiding and providing relief to Syria and Turkiye after the devastating earthquakes that struck the two countries, hoping that everyone will succeed in providing the necessary support to the brothers in Iraq, Palestine and in all other Arab countries.
He stressed the need for the region’s countries to help each other achieve stability, and to adhere to non-interference in internal affairs.
On the Qatari-Iraqi relations, he stressed that the two peoples are bound by distinguished fraternal relations, based on bonds of rapprochement and common denominators, pointing out that relations at the official level are witnessing steady growth in the investment, economic and cultural fields.
The Speaker highlighted the keenness of GCC states to enhance cooperation with Iraq in various fields, as they believe in the importance of Iraq in the stability and security of the region, indicating that there is a Gulf electrical interconnection project with the Iraqi Ministry of Electricity, as one of the important cooperation projects in this context.
