Cairo: State Council and Majlis Al Shura yesterday concluded their participation in meetings of the Arab Parliament at the headquarters of the Secretariat General of the Arab League in Cairo, Arab Republic of Egypt.
The Parliament discussed a report of Economic and Financial Affairs Committee on the draft Parliament budget for 2017, and its comparison to that of 2016. The report of the Higher Authority of General Auditing on the final accounts for 2015 was approved.
The Arab Parliament commenced its meeting with a procedural session to elect the president and his deputies.
Musallam bin Ali Al Ma’ashani, member of the State Council was elected as Deputy President along with three more deputies.
The session also elected heads for the four standing committees of the Parliament and their deputies, in addition to discussing the action plans of those committees for the first sitting of the second legislative term.
The Sultanate’s delegation included honourable Musallam bin Ali Al Ma’ashani, Member of the State Council, honourable Khamis bin Said Al Sulaimi, member of the State Council, Rashid bin Ahmed Al Shamsi, Deputy Chairman of Majlis Al Shura and Salim bin Ali Al Ka’abi, member of Majlis Al Shura.