Skopje, 28 September 2023 (MIA) - Parliament Speaker Talat Xhaferi will take part September 28-29 at the European Conference of Presidents of Parliaments of the Council of Europe in Dublin, Ireland.

Speaker Xhaferi is accompanied by MP Nikola Micevski and Secretary General Cvetanka Ivanova, the Parliament said in a press release.

The conference will focus on three themes: consequences of Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine and role of national parliaments in Ukraine’s reconstruction; the challenges to representative democracy in volatile times; and equality and diversity in public representation – the participation of young people, women and ethnic and social groups as members of parliament.

Xhaferi is set to address the event and meet with counterparts at the conference sidelines.

More than 60 Speakers or Deputy Speakers and around 400 delegates are expected at the European Conference of Presidents of Parliament, which is held every two years under the auspices of the Strasbourg-based Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE). The first European Conference of Presidents of Parliament was held in 1975. It takes place every two years, hosted alternately in Strasbourg and in the capital of a Council of Europe member state.

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