Kyrgyz President Visits Malaysian Parliament
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Dewan Negara President Senator Datuk Awang Bemee Awang Ali Basah (third, right) and Dewan Rakyat Speaker, Tan Sri Johari Abdul (second, right) hold a bilateral meeting with President of the Kyrgyz Republic Sadyr Zhaparov (third, left) at the Parliament House today.
Dewan Negara President Senator Datuk Awang Bemee Awang Ali Basah (left) receives a courtesy call from the President of the Kyrgyz Republic Sadyr Zhaparov (middle) at the Parliament House today. Also present, Dewan Negara Deputy President, Datuk Nur Jazlan Mohamed (right).
Dewan Rakyat Speaker, Tan Sri Johari Abdul (left) receives a courtesy call from the President of the Kyrgyz Republic Sadyr Zhaparov (second, right) at the Parliament House today. Also present Dewan Rakyat Deputy Speaker, Alice Lau Kiong Yeng (right).
Dewan Rakyat Speaker Tan Sri Johari Abdul (right) receives a courtesy call from the President of the Kyrgyz Republic Sadyr Zhaparov (left) at the Parliament House today.
KUALA LUMPUR, June 25 (Bernama) -- Kyrgyz Republic President Sadyr Zhaparov, who arrived in Malaysia yesterday for a two-day official visit, toured the Parliament House here today.
Zhaparov, who arrived at the Parliament building at 1.15 pm, spent about an hour holding bilateral discussions with Dewan Rakyat Speaker Tan Sri Johari Abdul and Dewan Negara President Datuk Awang Bemee Awang Ali Basah.
Also present were Dewan Rakyat Deputy Speaker Alice Lau Kiong Yieng; Dewan Negara Deputy President Senator Datuk Nur Jazlan Mohamed; and Works Minister Datuk Alexander Nanta Linggi, who is also the Minister-in-attendance.
After the discussions, Zhaparov and his delegation spent about 15 minutes touring the Parliament building.
Meanwhile, the Malaysian Parliament said in a statement that the bilateral discussions touched on various issues of mutual interest, including education, culture, people-to-people exchanges and good governance practices.
It added that Johari also emphasised the importance of parliamentary diplomacy in expanding strategic ties between Malaysia and Central Asian countries, in addition to proposing that Kyrgyz-Malaysian student exchanges be conducted to develop young Islamic leadership and the two countries, in general.
Johari also expressed the Malaysian Parliament's readiness to strengthen joint initiatives, which include strengthening parliamentary governance and institutions, exchanges of researchers and academics, dialogue between religion and policy, as well as staff training and digitalisation of the parliamentary system.
Meanwhile, the Kyrgyz President also spoke about the reform of the parliamentary institution in his country and welcomed the establishment of the Malaysia-Central Asia Parliamentary Friendship Group as a platform for continued and meaningful engagement.
Earlier, Zhaparov was accorded an official welcome at the Perdana Putra Complex, followed by a bilateral meeting with Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim.
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