VIEW FROM THE CPA CHAIRPERSON
CPA CHAIRPERSON’S GALLERY As the Chairperson of the CPA Executive Committee, Hon. Dr Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury, MP, Speaker of the Parliament of Bangladesh comes to the end of her three year term in office (2014-2017), we publish a small gallery of photographs of her past and recent CPA activities over the last three years.
Below: The Secretary-General of the CPA, Mr Akbar Khan met with the Chairperson of the CPA and Speaker of the Parliament of Bangladesh, Hon. Dr Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury MP on his first official visit to Bangladesh in January 2016.
Image credit: Commonwealth Secretariat
Below: Hon. Dr Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury, MP, CPA Chairperson together with Mr Akbar Khan, CPA Secretary-General meet Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, Head of the Commonwealth and Patron of the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association at the Commonwealth Secretary-General’s Commonwealth Day 2016 reception.
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Left: The Chairperson of the CPA Executive Committee, Hon. Dr Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury, MP, Speaker of the Parliament of Bangladesh, launched the CPA Roashows for Young People in March 2016 with a group of 150 young people from five different schools and colleges at the Parliament of Bangladesh. The CPA Roadshows have visited schools and universities across the Commonwealth to help to increase young people’s awareness of parliament, democracy and the CPA and the CPA Chairperson has held three CPA Roadshows in Bangladesh.
Above: The CPA Chairperson opens the 62nd Commonwealth Parliamentary Conference in December 2016. Below: The Chairperson of the CPA Executive Committee attends the 46th CPA Africa Regional Conference in Kenya in August 2015.