MR. SPEAKER MEETS LIBYAN SECRETARY FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS
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20/08/2001
| The Hon Anton Tabone, Speaker of the House of | Representatives, today met a delegation from The Great Socialist People’s Libyan Arab Jamahiriya, led by H.E. Mr Soleiman Al-Shahoumi, Secretary for Foreign Affairs of the General People’s Congress. |
| The delegation is in Malta on an invitation extended | by Mr Speaker, following a request by H.E. Mr Al-Shahoumi for an opportunity to continue the discussions started at the Havana Conference on questions relating to the Mediterranean within the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU). |
| At the meeting Mr Speaker and Mr Al-Shahoumi | discussed possibilities to enhance the dialogue currently in course on the Mediterranean perspective. Mr Speaker focused mainly on the initiative taken by the Malta National Group of the IPU regarding the possibility of setting up a parliamentary Assembly of Mediterranean States. |
| Moreover, the Speaker and the Secretary for Foreign | Affairs of the Jamahiriya agreed that further exchange visits and inter-parliamentary initiatives between members of the Malta House of Representatives and of the General People’s Congress of Libya would result in the enhancement of co-operation between the two countries. |
| The Libyan Delegation then had a meeting with the | Malta National Group of the IPU, comprising the Hon Helen D’Amato and the Hon George Vella. |
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