BUJUMBURA March 16th (ABP) – The Speaker of the National Assembly, Daniel Gélase Ndabirabe returned, on Wednesday, March 15, 2023, from a working mission to Bahrain (in Manama) where he had participated in a meeting of the Forum parliamentarians from non-aligned countries and at the 146th Assembly of the Inter-Parliamentary Union.
Arriving at Melchior Ndadaye International Airport, the Speaker of the National Assembly told the press that this meeting was to analyze the implementation of the bylaws adopted last year in Azerbaijan. They have thus studied how they can transform that group of non-aligned countries into a real institution like the EALA, the CIRGL, the Pan-African Parliament and others. He explained that what motivated thinking about the institutionalization of that group of non-aligned countries is that at the moment there is no executive secretariat and there are not many games that are being done at the grassroots level, at the administrative level.
Regarding the socio-economic consequences of Covid-19, the non-aligned countries have undertaken to help each other for recovery. With regard to the 146th Conference of the World Inter-Parliamentary Union, the question was to identify the causes or the reasons which push the countries not to move forward and not to experience the socio-economic progress that they want. Mr. Ndabirabe said that they have found that this is linked to exclusion, social inequalities, disrespect for others, lack of affection between the different peoples that make up those countries, and the injustice.
In fact, it was agreed that the member countries of the Inter-Parliamentary Union could make efforts at the level of parliamentarians, who, as elected representatives of the people, have the mission of explaining and expelling those feelings of hatred, imbalance, exclusion, inequalities and others to the people. They also asked the Inter-Parliamentary Union to introduce a bill to fight against divisions and exclusions of all kinds, whether religious, ethnic, tribal, gender or others. A technical team has been set up to prepare that bill and they are awaiting another invitation to analyze it together, the Speaker of the Lower House of the Burundian Parliament has concluded.