Europe council’s parliament names Jordan as partner

AMMAN — The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, in its Tuesday session, agreed to accept the Kingdom's Parliament as a partner for democracy, the Jordan News Agency, Petra, reported on Wednesday.

At the session in Strasbourg, Lower House Speaker Atef Tarawneh thanked the assembly for accepting Jordan as a partner and stressed the Kingdom's seriousness in building a democratic system that achieves national goals.

He said the system shall preserve the momentum of the reform and improvement programmes in spite of the changes in the region and their repercussions on the Kingdom.

Tarawneh's speech covered the draft election law, the Syrian crisis and its repercussions, political solutions and sectarian conflicts in the region, the Palestinian cause and Israeli violations, and all sorts of efforts to combat terrorism.