Algeria-Korea Parliamentary Friendship Group was set up Wednesday at the seat of the People’s National Assembly (lower house of parliament) as part of steps to bolster cooperation between the parliamentary institutions of the two countries.
The installation ceremony was held in the presence of the chairman of the lower house’s Committee on Foreign Affairs, Cooperation and Community, Mohamed Hani, Republic of Korea’s ambassador to Algeria, Kim Chang-mo, and the head of the Central and East Asia Department at the ministry of Foreign Affairs, Mohamed Yazid Bouzid.
In an address, Hani said that the establishment of the group “is part of an impetus given by the speaker of the People’s National Assembly, Brahim Boughali, for the establishment of mechanisms fostering the development of Parliamentary cooperation with brotherly and friendly countries through the promotion of parliamentary performance in its international dimension, as a support for traditional diplomacy”.
The lower house is engaged in the implementation of “President of the Republic Abdelmadjid Tebboune’s sound and effective guidelines,” said the chairman of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, Cooperation and Community.
The president stressed “the need for the parliamentary and executive institutions to be at the top of their performance to be in tune with the international geopolitical and geostrategic developments.”
Chaired by MP Zentar Salem, the parliamentary friendship group with Korea, according to Hani, “is meant to be a tool to step up cooperation that is developing in several fields, mainly through exchange of official visits between the two sides (…), and especially after the signing, in 2006, of a strategic partnership declaration with the Republic of Korea, its first with an African country”.
