Larijani made the remarks to the reporters as he arrived in Khartoum International Airport in Sudan on Sunday.
Larijani, who is scheduled to attend the eighth IIPU meeting, was welcomed by Sudanese Interim National Assembly Speaker, Ahmed Ibrahim al-Tahir, at the airport.
Before leaving Tehran, Larijani stressed the importance of the IIPU, noting that “the issue of Palestine and the Zionist regime [of Israel]’s behavior against women and children” is one of the important topics to be discussed at the meeting.
The meeting will be held in Khartoum on January 21-22. The last meeting of the union was held in the Malaysian city of Palembang in January 2012.
Major topics of discussion in the seventh assembly included Islamic Awakening, Palestine's membership in the United Nations, modern technologies, counterterrorism, sustainable development, and the peaceful use of nuclear energy in the Middle East.
The IIPU was established in 1999 based on an initiative by Iran. It seeks to strengthen parliamentary cooperation among Islamic countries in order to solve challenges facing the Islamic world.
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Iranian Parliament Speaker Ali Larijani says he hopes the General Assembly Meeting of the Islamic Inter-Parliamentary Union (IIPU) be beneficial for all the member states.
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