Doha: The Advisory Council referred a draft law on the permanent residency identification card to the Council’s Internal and Foreign Affairs Committee for further study.
The Council decided to refer the draft law after extensive discussions held during the regular weekly session of the council held yesterday under the chairmanship of Speaker of the Advisory Council H E Ahmed bin Abdullah bin Zaid Al Mahmoud.
The Internal and External Affairs Committee of the Advisory Council held it’s first meeting at the 46th ordinary session, yesterday.
The Committee began to study the draft law on ‘Permanent Residence ID Card’, and decided to continue deliberation in its next meeting.
At the outset of the meeting, the Committee unanimously elected member Abdullah bin Fahad bin Abdullah bin Ghorab Al Marri as its Rapporteur for this session. The Speaker of the Advisory Council briefed the Council on the outcome of the 13th Conference of the Parliamentary Union of the OIC member states, which was held in Tehran on Tuesday and Wednesday.
H E Al Mahmoud also briefed the Council on the meetings which he and the accompanying delegation held with President of Islamic Republic of Iran Dr Hassan Rowhani, and with a number of heads of the councils of the OIC member states participating in the conference.
The meetings focused on the role of the councils in supporting Islamic issues, as well as the bilateral relations between Qatar and these countries and means of enhancing and developing them in various fields.
The Advisory Council welcomed the final communique of the 13th Conference of the Parliamentary Union of the OIC member states.
The Council praised the position of the communique, in particular, the rejection of the principle of imposing sanctions of any kind on any of the Islamic countries and calling for their abolition, and the assertion on the centrality of the Palestinian cause and Al Quds Al Sharif as the capital of the independent Palestinian state and the third of the two holy mosques.
