IPC on road safety starts today

PU President in Pakistan to attend 2-day conference

ISLAMABAD:

Chairman Senate Muhammad Sadiq Sanjrani on Tuesday said Pakistan was focused on enhanced regional connectivity and trade through land routes with member states of the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU).

He expressed these views during a meeting with IPU President Duarte Pacheco, who called on him here at his office.

The IPU President is on a visit to Pakistan to attend the two-day conference organized by International Parliamentarians Congress (IPC) on Road Safety starting on Wednesday (today). The Senate chairman said that road safety was a global issue that needed collective efforts by all stakeholders, saying “everyone has to work together for it.”

During the meeting, the two sides discussed matters related to increased institutional cooperation besides making the IPU a more dynamic forum. He said that realising the importance of this issue, the IPC decided to utilise the experiences of international political leaders and experts to formulate strategies and recommendations through a joint action plan.

Sadiq Sanjrani underlined that Pakistan was determined to promote peace, democracy, human rights, gender equality and sustainable development as per the mission of IPU. Declaring road safety one of the confronted global challenges, he said “Road safety is very important in the overall development process, and it is the problem is of a global nature.”

Published in The Express Tribune, February 8^th, 2023.