The Vietnamese top legislator made the point on January 18 in Hanoi at the Meeting of Women Parliamentarians which is a part of the 26th Annual Meeting of the Asia-Pacific Parliamentary Forum (APPF-26).
Under the theme “Promoting gender equality for sustainable development and common prosperity,” Chairwoman Ngan, the APPF-26 President stressed that gender equality represents an important goal which Vietnam and other countries are looking forward, and is regarded as one of criteria for the assessment of social development.
The Meeting of Women Parliamentarians
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The APPF was founded in 1993. However, the Meeting of Women Parliamentarians of the APPF was held for the first time during APPF-24 in Canada in January 2016, following an initiative from the Indonesian delegation to the APPF-23.
Being the third edition this year, the APPF Meeting of Women Parliamentarians aims at promoting gender equality for sustainable development and shared prosperity.
Chairwoman Ngan said that as the host of APPF-26, Vietnam selected the theme with a view to creating a forum for women parliamentarians to discuss parliamentary roles to enforce international commitments and legalization domestic laws; and converting women parliamentarian meeting – an official mechanism – into a periodic one of APPF by amending APPF Rules of Procedure.
The top legislator was convinced that the meeting would make positive contribution to resolutions and a joint declaration of the forum.
Lasting until January 21, the APPF-26 also features four plenary sessions on the topics of politics-security, economics-trade, regional cooperation in Asia-Pacific, and the future of APPF.
