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President of the Senate, Godswill Akpabio, has called for Parliamentary Collaboration between the Nigerian Parliament and its Serbian counterpart.
Akpabio made the call during a meeting with the President of the Serbia Parliament, Ms Ana Brnabic in London, on Wednesday.
This was contained in a statement by his Special Assistant on Media, Jackson Udom.
It added that Akpabio and the President of the Serbia Parliament, Ana Brnabic, extensively discussed issues of mutual interest to both nations and how to improve parliamentary collaborations between Serbia and Nigeria.
Part of the statement read: “The Meeting, which was at the request of Ms Brnabić, also discussed matters relating to the International Parliamentary Union(IPU).
“The two parliamentarians have also agreed to meet again soon. The Serbian lawmaker, used the meeting to formally invite Nigeria’s Senate President to Serbia, on a yet to be announced date,” the statement said.
It noted that Akpabio, was recently elected into the Executive Committee of the IPU, a role he has been playing successfully in the last few months, specifically his speech on the needless bloodletting in Gaza, and the call for a ceasefire at the just concluded meeting of the body in Geneva, Switzerland.
Akpabio, the statement added, was accompanied to the meeting by the Chairman, Senate Committee on NDDC, Asuquo Ekpenyong and Nigeria’s Acting High Commissioner to the United Kingdom, Cyprian Terseer Heens.
