Hon. Abdul Raheem Abdulla, Speaker of the People’s Majlis, paid a courtesy call on Hon. Shri Om Birla, Speaker of the Lok Sabha today during his visit to India.

During the meeting, Speaker Hon. Abdul Raheem Abdulla praised the excellent arrangements for the 28th Conference of Speakers and Presiding Officers of the Commonwealth (CSPOC) in New Delhi, stating that the well-planned and thoughtfully organized Conference reflects the Lok Sabha’s continued commitment to strengthening parliamentary cooperation.

Speaker Hon. Abdul Raheem Abdulla also discussed the long-standing friendship between the Maldives and India and emphasized avenues for enhancing the relations between the two countries and its parliaments.

Furthermore, Speaker Hon. Abdul Raheem Abdullah thanked the Lok Sabha Speaker highlighting the ongoing training and capacity-building programmes conducted by the Lok Sabha for People's Majlis Secretariat staff under the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between the two parliaments. He also discussed ways to further institutionalize parliamentary cooperation in order to strengthen the already successful framework of collaboration.

Lok Sabha Speaker Hon. Om Birla reaffirmed India's readiness to share its expertise in parliamentary operations, particularly digital innovations and training through the Parliamentary Research and Training Institute for Democracies (PRIDE) . The Hon. Speaker also emphasized parliamentary cooperation as a foundation of bilateral relations and agreed to deepen inter-parliamentary engagement.