Speaker Abbas, Algerian Counterpart Sign MoU On Parliamentary Exchange, Democracy, Others

The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon. Abbas Tajudeen, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the People’s National Assembly of the People’s Democratic Republic of Algeria.

The MoU seeks to found beardown parliamentary exchanges, fortify democracy, regularisation of law, and different legislative interventions mutually beneficial to Nigeria and Algeria.

Speaker Abbas signed the MoU with the Speaker of the People’s National Assembly of Algeria, upon his accomplishment successful Algiers for a moving sojourn connected Monday.

The MoU was signed “based connected the humanities bonds of relationship betwixt the Algerian and Nigerian peoples, arsenic good arsenic their shared values and principles.”

The 2 parliaments reached the agreement, “recognising the value the parties connect to strengthening the affable and adjacent relations betwixt the 2 parliamentary bodies.”

Both parties besides reaffirmed the committedness of some parliaments to “promoting ideology and the regularisation of law, guided by the principles and rules of planetary law, and the Charter and principles of the African Union, with a presumption to promoting exchanges successful the ineligible tract and different parliamentary activities.”

The bilateral agreements successful the MoU partially read, “The parties shall lend to strengthening parliamentary practice betwixt the People’s Democratic Republic of Algeria and the Federal Republic of Nigeria with a presumption to processing relations betwixt the 2 countries successful the future.

“The parties shall enactment actively to fortify parliamentary practice done exchanges of authoritative visits and coordination betwixt parliamentary committees of some countries; ensuring parliamentary enactment for improvement programs betwixt the parties; establishing a associated model for parliamentary enactment and capableness building; exchanging expertise and knowledge; and encouraging the implementation of assorted improvement programmes.”

The Nigerian House and the People’s National Assembly besides agreed that some parliaments “shall speech accusation connected legislative activities and parliamentary procedures and shall enactment to fortify connection betwixt the parliamentary committees of some parties to stock experiences and expertise relating to law-making, parliamentary oversight, administrative management, and the financing of parliamentary activities.”

While some parties successful the statement resolved to promote the 2 Parliamentary Friendship Groups—‘Algeria–Nigeria’ and ‘Nigeria–Algeria’—to hole a associated enactment program and to enactment them successful its implementation, they besides agreed to found a Joint Parliamentary Committee ‘Algeria–Nigeria.’

The associated committee is to service arsenic the “preferred model for consultation and practice betwixt the parliamentarians of the 2 institutions, pursuant to an annex defining the committee’s rules of process and functioning.”

On the ground of the principles of partnership, friendship, and communal support, the Nigerian and Algerian Parliaments agreed to “intensify practice wrong planetary parliamentary organisations successful which they clasp membership.”

Both parties “shall, to the grade possible, undertake associated initiatives connected issues of communal involvement and laic the foundations for consultation and coordination successful the meetings of determination and planetary parliamentary bodies, peculiarly the Pan-African Parliament, the African Parliamentary Union, and the Inter-Parliamentary Union.”

Earlier, Speaker Abbas laid a wreath astatine the Martyrs’ Memorial to wage tribute to the souls of Algerian heroes.

Meanwhile, Speaker Abbas is besides scheduled to conscionable with the Algerian Minister of State, Minister of Foreign Affairs, National Community Abroad, and African Affairs, Mr. Ahmed Attaf.

The Nigerian Speaker is besides billed to conscionable with the Algerian Minister of State, Minister of Hydrocarbons and Mines, Mr. Mohamed Arkab.

Also connected Speaker Abbas’ itinerary is simply a gathering with the Algerian Minister of Energy and Renewable Energies, Mr. Mourad Adjal.