President of the Arab Parliament: Intensive contacts with the International Parliamentary Union to recognize the Yemeni Parliament as the legitimate representative of the Yemeni people

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Broadcast: The President of the Arab Parliament, Adel bin Abdul Rahman Al-Asoumi announced; He had intensive contacts over the past two days with the senior leaders of the Inter-Parliamentary Union, on the occasion of the convening of the Executive Committee of the Union ... and discussed the developments of the Yemeni crisis, again calling on the Arab Parliament to the Inter-Parliamentary Union regarding the recognition of the Yemeni Parliament elected in Seiyun April 2019, as the legitimate representative of the Yemeni people. The issue that the President of the Arab Parliament discussed and discussed extensively with the concerned officials during his visit to the Inter-Parliamentary Union in Geneva last February 2021.

The President of the Arab Parliament affirmed that the continuation of the current position of the Inter-Parliamentary Union contradicts the internationally agreed norms, traditions and rules of parliamentary action regarding the representation of peoples by their elected parliaments, and contradicts the official positions of the Arab councils and parliaments members of the Union, as well as with United Nations resolutions related to the Yemeni crisis. , Wondering about the legal and political justifications that give the right to "a kidnapped parliamentary group supporting it."

One country "in order to represent the Yemeni people in the Inter-Parliamentary Union. While the Arab countries, and the various countries in the world that are members of the Union, support the Yemeni legitimacy represented in the Seiyun Parliament headed by Sheikh Sultan al-Barakani."

The President of the Arab Parliament called on the members of the Executive Committee of the Inter-Parliamentary Union to assume their political, moral and legal responsibility in supporting the elected members of the Yemeni Parliament who express their free will, stressing that this represents the minimum in support of Yemeni legitimacy and showing solidarity with the Yemeni people and helping them to get out of Its current crisis.

The President of the Arab Parliament called on the Inter-Parliamentary Union, as the parent global parliamentary organization, to shoulder its responsibility in facing the ongoing violations of the Houthi coup militia against members of the Yemeni Parliament, including the recent issuance of what it calls "death sentences" against 46 members of Parliament, In addition to the confiscation of their money and property, he stressed the need for the international community to take a unified position to stop these crimes committed by the Houthi militia.