Tehran, Oct 4, IRNA - Majlis (Parliament) Speaker Gholam-Ali Haddad-Adel, heading a high-ranking delegation, will visit Switzerland next Monday to address the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) meeting.

Gholam-Ali Haddad-Adel

According to the Press Bureau of Majlis, Haddad-Adel will take part in a three-day conference in Geneva at an invitation by the IPU head. Speakers from 120 countries will also participate in the event.

This is the first time that the IPU invites a high-ranking delegation from Iran to attend its meeting.

Heshmatollah Falahat-Pisheh, Seyed Abdullah Hosseini, Javad Jahangirzadeh, Kazem Jalali, Fatima Alia and Nafisseh Fayyaz-Bakhsh will accompany the Majlis speaker during the three-day visit to Switzerland.

Haddad-Adel will hold talks with heads of Swiss Federal Council and Parliament during the visit.

The IPU Geneva-based non-governmental organization, comprising 148 member states, was established 110 years earlier.

The Iranian speaker will pay a visit to Bosnia and Herzegovina at an official invitation by their parliament speaker.

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