AIPA appoints new Secretary General
VGP - Mr. Antonio Cuenco from the Philippines was appointed as the Secretary General of the ASEAN Inter-parliamentary Assembly (AIPA) in the 2010-2013 term in a ceremony hosted by the Vietnamese National Assembly, as Chair of the 31st AIPA, in Hà Nội on Friday.
At the
ceremony, Vietnamese NA Chairman Nguyễn Phú Trọng, current AIPA Chairman,
praised the Philippine Parliament’s nomination of a new Secretary General for
AIPA in line with an AIPA-30 regulation, passed in
He expressed
the hope that the new AIPA Secretary General would make greater contributions
to helping the organization realize its goals.
Addressing
the event, Mr. Cuenco expressed his pride to become the AIPA Secretary General
at a time when the organization is boosting its cooperation with ASEAN, which
is implementing a roadmap to build an ASEAN Community by 2015.
The new AIPA
Secretary General pledged that he will work closely with the ASEAN Secretary
General and said he believed that under the Vietnamese NA’s leadership, AIPA
will advance closer to its set goals and have a more important voice in the
ASEAN Community.
Earlier, the
new AIPA Secretary General was received by Vietnamese NA and AIPA Chairman Trọng.