Siege countries have lost a great opportunity by not attending the 140th Assembly of IPU and related meetings in Doha, said a senior British politician yesterday. Nigel Evans (pictured), who has been a Member of Parliament for 27 years, praised Qatar for holding this event successfully.
“It is far better to have dialogues amongst countries. They (siege countries) have denied themselves an opportunity to participate in this brilliant conference and to have dialogue,” Evans told The Peninsula. “They (siege countries) not only have denied themselves an opportunity to talk to their Qatari cousins but they have denied themselves the opportunity to talk to the rest of the world too,” added Evans who has been involved with IPU for a long time.
Participation of record number of participants in this edition of meetings has proved the success of this high profile event. He praised IPU saying that there was no organisation in the world that brings MPs together from every part of the world.
“There is no other organisation that brings so many parliamentarians together from such a diverse number of countries, with different background, different ideologies, different religion, different thoughts, different customs and histories and allows them the opportunity to say freely what they want to say about most of important issues of the day,” he added.
