LS Speaker to lead Parl team for ASEP meet in Mongolia

Lok Sabha Speaker Sumitra Mahajan will lead a parliamentary delegation to Mongolia next week to attend a meeting of the Asia-Europe Parliamentary Partnership (ASEP).
Lok Sabha MPs Rajendra Agrawal and Heena Vijay Kumar Gavit of BJP, Dr Shrikant Eknath Shinde (Shiv Sena) and Butta Renuka (YSR Congress) are part of the delegation along with Rajya Sabha MPs Shantaram Naik (Congress) and KC Tyagi (JD-U).
Their visit will be for six days from April 17 to 22.
ASEP, a parliamentary forum, is linked to the inter- governmental dialogue that has been established between Europe and Asia to consider political, economic and cultural issues.

The Asia-Europe meeting is part of the overall Asia-Europe partnership process. It serves as a forum for building inter- parliamentary contacts, exchanges and diplomacy and promoting mutual understanding among the people and countries of Asia and Europe.
ASEP meetings are normally convened on a regular bi-annual basis alternatively in Asia and Europe before the ASEM Summit.

Mongolia is hosting the 11th ASEM Summit of Heads of State and Government (ASEM-11) on July 15-16 this year.
The 10th ASEM Summit of Heads of State and Government was held in October 2014 in Milan, Italy.
The 11th ASEM Summit will also be the 20th anniversary since the Asia-Europe Meeting dialogue process was inaugurated in 1996 in Bangkok, Thailand.