Welcome Message from the Secretary-General,
His Excellency Dr. M. H. Nejad-Hosseinian

Welcome to the website of the Secretariat of the Asian Parliamentary Assembly (APA). The Asian Parliamentary Assembly is home to great aspirations of elected representatives of Asian peoples, and to a great collective vision, that is Asian integration. As the APA Secretary-General, I am honored to work for such a great cause, and to facilitate realization of such esteemed goal. My colleagues and I plan to have the most outreaching approach to each and every Asian entity in order to better fulfill responsibilities entrusted to us by the APA Plenary, and therefore, humbly invite you to take part in our efforts.

The APA was born out of Association of Asian Parliaments for Peace (AAPP) in November, 2006, in Tehran. The establishment of the AAPP goes back to 1999 when a group of Asian parliamentarians decided to join forces toward promoting peace and human rights in Asia. In 2006, while broadening areas of cooperation, and emphasizing their desire for taking serious steps toward integration, member parliaments set in a process that would eventually lead us to an Asian common legislative mechanism. Unlike AAPP, members of the APA Plenary must be elected by members of member parliaments. This gives the APA an unprecedented and unique status in Asia.