{"id":91418,"date":"2016-10-23T17:09:04","date_gmt":"2016-10-23T14:09:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sana.sy\/en\/?p=91418"},"modified":"2016-10-23T17:09:04","modified_gmt":"2016-10-23T14:09:04","slug":"syria-participates-in-the-ipu-meetings-in-geneva","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/?p=91418","title":{"rendered":"Syria participates in the IPU meetings in Geneva"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Geneva, SANA &#8211; A Syrian delegation is participating in the meetings of the 135th session of the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) in the Swiss city of Geneva, headed by Speaker of People\u2019s Assembly Hadiyeh Abbas.<\/p>\n<p>At the consultation meeting of the Islamic Group at the IPU, held on the sidelines of the session, Abbas called for supporting the emergency item submitted by the Syrian People\u2019s Assembly on the negative repercussions of the unfair economic sanctions imposed on the Syrian people, stressing that these sanctions are used by some countries to exert pressure on Syria and directly affect the basic human rights.<\/p>\n<p>The participants in the meeting discussed the issues on the IPU agenda and the emergency items listed for voting, stressing the need to adopt a unified stand by the Islamic Group on the issues of common concern. <a href=\"http:\/\/sana.sy\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Abbas-IPU-Peoples-Assembly-Geneva-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-91420 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/sana.sy\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Abbas-IPU-Peoples-Assembly-Geneva-2-300x150.jpg\" alt=\"abbas-ipu-peoples-assembly-geneva-2\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Abbas-IPU-Peoples-Assembly-Geneva-2-300x150.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Abbas-IPU-Peoples-Assembly-Geneva-2.jpg 660w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In the same context, Ashwaq Abass, member of the People\u2019s Assembly, participated in the Forum of Women Parliamentarians that discusses the role of women in parliaments and means to enhance women\u2019s political participation.<\/p>\n<p>The IPU meetings will discuss over five days a number of issues mainly the role of parliaments in the immediate response to human rights violations, freedom of women and their participation in the political process, the reports of the committees on peace, sustainable development, finance, trade and the UN affairs.<\/p>\n<p>M.al-Frieh\/H. Said<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Geneva, SANA &#8211; A Syrian delegation is participating in the meetings of the 135th session of the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) in the Swiss city of Geneva, headed by Speaker of People\u2019s Assembly Hadiyeh Abbas. At the consultation meeting of the Islamic Group at the IPU, held on the sidelines of the session, Abbas called for &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":91419,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6987,106],"tags":[11620,2485,2719,2720,11621],"class_list":["post-91418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-latest-news","category-syria-and-the-world","tag-forum-of-women-parliamentarians","tag-geneva","tag-inter-parliamentary-union","tag-ipu","tag-speaker-of-peoples-assembly-hadiyeh-abbas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91418"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=91418"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91418\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/91419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=91418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=91418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=91418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}