POLITICS
DUTCH PARLIAMENT`s SECRETARY GENERAL VISITS MILLI MAJLIS
Secretary General of the House of Representatives of the States General of the Netherlands Jacqueline Biesheuvel-Vermeijden visited Tuesday the Milli Majlis (Azerbaijan Parliament) as part of her Baku trip.
She familiarized herself with the meeting hall and Heydar Aliyev`s memorial museum in the Parliament.
Mrs. Biesheuvel then met with Safa Mirzayev, the head of Parliament`s administration.
Mirzayev spoke of the Milli Majlis activity. He noted the Parliament has 125 members.
He also spoke of Azerbaijan`s electoral legislation, international cooperation as well as legal reforms being conducted in the country.
Jacqueline Biesheuvel-Vermeijden thanked for full information. She, in her turn, spoke of the Dutch parliament and its international relations.
The meeting also stressed the importance of development of interparliamentary relations.
The same day, Dutch Parliament`s Secretary General met with Samad Seyidov, chairman of the Milli Majlis standing commission on international relations and interparliamentary ties, head of the Azerbaijan delegation to the Parliament Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE).
Seyidov spoke of the activity of Azerbaijan delegation to PACE. He stressed relations between Azerbaijan and the Council of Europe are intensively developing, adding the Azerbaijani and Dutch parliamentarians are fruitfully cooperating within international organizations, including PACE.
Mrs. Jacqueline Biesheuvel praised the cooperation of the two states` parliamentarians in the international organizations.