Africa-Press – Angola. The Secretary of State for Social Communication, Nuno Caldas Albino, assured, this Tuesday, institutional support to Parliament for the successful holding of the 147th General Assembly of the Inter-Parliamentary Union (UIP), taking place from the 23rd to the 27th of this month , in Luanda.
The event, which is taking place for the first time in a Portuguese-speaking African country, is expected to bring together 1,400 deputies from 173 member countries of this multilateral organization.
Nuno Caldas Albino led a delegation from the Ministry of Telecommunications, Information Technologies and Social Communication (MINTTICS) that went to Parliament to discuss technical details, among others, within the scope of the UIP meeting and the Opening of the 2nd Legislative Session of the Fifth Legislature of the National Assembly.
In relation to the IPU meeting, he urged the media to send a clear message to citizens regarding the essence or genesis of this multilateral organization.
He therefore defended the need for detailed approaches that can clarify the target audience more clearly.
The Secretary of State considers it important that, at the level of this international event, communication can be scaled not only internally, but also to communities abroad and multilateral institutions.
On the same occasion, the director of the Communication and Image office of the National Assembly, Domingos de Carvalho, provided clarifications to those responsible for the media bodies about the conditions created by the legislative body for journalists to carry out their work without constraints, in picture of the two events.
Interparliamentary Union (UIP)
Founded in 1889, on the initiative of the Englishman William Randal Cremer and the Frenchman Frédéric Passy, the Inter-Parliamentary Union is an international organization of the parliaments of sovereign states, whose objective is to mediate the multilateral contacts of deputies.
The organization has an intergovernmental nature, operates under the UN system and its main aim is to obtain peace and cooperation between peoples and the consolidation of representative institutions through dialogue.
Currently, the IPU is the main parliamentary interlocutor of the United Nations and brings its voice to decision-making processes, regularly presenting its resolutions in the General Assembly, making statements, participating in debates and organizing parliamentary meetings on the main themes on the UN agenda. .
In recognition of this important role, in 2002 the United Nations granted him permanent observer status. Angola has been a member of the IPU since 1986. The organization is currently led by the Portuguese Duarte Pacheco.
For More News And Analysis About Angola Follow Africa-Press
