Speaker Aryal meets President

KATHMANDU: Speaker Dol Prasad Aryal paid a courtesy call on President Ram Chandra Paudel at the Office of the President in Kathmandu on Friday.

According to the President’s Secretariat, Speaker Aryal briefed the President on the Asia-Pacific Regional Conference of the Standing Committee on Sustainable Development under the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU), which Nepal is preparing to host.

Aryal also informed the President that Nepal’s emergency motion on climate-induced disasters, presented at the 153rd IPU Assembly in Arusha, Tanzania, had been passed with more than a two-thirds majority.

The two also discussed convening a session of parliament and ensuring its regular and effective functioning.

Aryal told the President that political parties had suggested during consultations that parliament should resume its proceedings.

The speaker also briefed the President on a plan to hold a joint meeting and discussion involving the President, the speaker and provincial assembly officials, including speakers and deputy speakers from all seven provinces.

During the meeting, President Paudel said that more debate and discussion in parliament would strengthen democracy. He said deliberations in parliament help reinforce democratic practices.