Baghdad, The Speaker of the Arab Parliament, Adel bin Abdul Rahman Al-Asoumi, expressed today, Tuesday, his strong condemnation and astonishment at the shameful international silence regarding the criminal acts to which the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip have been exposed over the course of about a month.
During his speech at the seventeenth meeting of the heads of the Shura and Representative Councils of the Gulf Cooperation Council countries in Qatar, Al-Asomi stressed “the great extent of the responsibility placed on the leaders of the Arab countries in confronting this unprecedented crisis,” stressing the support of the Arab Parliament for all the daily efforts undertaken by the Arab leaders in order to achieve a ceasefire and deliver the necessary humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip, and to break the international silence regarding this brutal aggression.”
He pointed out that parliamentary diplomacy has become an important and influential tool of power in today's world, and it has a supportive and complementary role to official diplomacy towards defending our Arab issues, especially the Palestinian issue.
Source: National Iraqi News Agency
