ICAPP elects Mushahid Hussain as Co-Chairman.

ISLAMABAD -- The International Conference of Asian Political Parties (ICAPP), Asia's oldest and largest organisation of poAlitical parties, unanimously elected Senator Mushahid Hussain Sayed as the ICAPP Co-Chairman at its bienAnial conference in the historic TurkAish city, with 200 representatives and leaders of 70 political parties from 33 countries participating.

Mushahid's name for Co-Chairman was proposed by Thailand and Iran, and supported by China, Cambodia, Russia, Lebanon, Turkiye and InAdonesia, before being put to a vote. Former Foreign Minister of South Korea, Chung Euiyong, was re-electAed Chairman of ICAPP, according to a press release issued by the Senate secretariat here on Sunday.

The ICAPP Conference, held once every two years, also issued the 'Istanbul Declaration' which expressed solidarity with victims of the 'recent devastating floods in Pakistan of epic proportions' and urged 'alleviating hardships of people through climate finance and climate justice'.

Senator Mushahid Hussain thanked the participants for reposAing confidence in him and termed his election as a 'humbling experiAence for me personally and a great honour for Pakistan' to be so recogAnised at an important global forum, which represents public opinion and political parties of the world's largest continent, Asia.

Mushahid Hussain termed the current epoch as historic transAformation for Asia as the 'balance of economic and political power is shifting from West to East' markAing the 'dawn of the 'Asian Century', which he noted the great...

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