ISLAMABAD: Arab Parliament speaker Adel Abdulrahman Al-Asoumi will arrive in Islamabad on Sunday, heading a high-profile delegation of legislators from the Arab League, the organization said in a statement on Saturday evening.
The Arab Parliament is the legislative body of the Arab League, a key 22-member organization of Arab countries established in 1945.
The legislators are arriving in Islamabad for a five-day visit on the invitation of the chairman of the Pakistani Senate.
"His Excellency Mr. Adel bin Abdul Rahman Al-Asoumi, Speaker of the Arab Parliament, will head a high-level delegation to visit the Republic of Pakistan, from 1 to 5 August 2021, on the invitation of His Excellency the Chairman of the Pakistani Senate," the Arab Parliament said.
"This visit aims to strengthen Arab parliamentary relations with the Pakistani side, especially in light of positive developments and remarkable growth in relations between the two sides in the political, economic, security and military fields."
In a Twitter post, the organization said the visit will be "the first of its kind."
Al-Asoumi is scheduled to meet the Pakistani president and prime minister, as well as other top officials, and sign several cooperation agreements to "strengthen relations between the two sides in the field of parliamentary work" and strengthen their "common stand" in other parliamentary organizations especially the International Parliamentary Union.
