Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla participates in 5th World Conference of Speakers of Parliament
- The fifth edition of the World Conference of Speakers of Parliament was held virtually on 19 and 20 August 2020.
- The two day conference was organised virtually for the first time due to COVID-19.
- The event was organised by the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU), Geneva, jointly with the Parliament of Austria and with the support of the United Nations (UN).
- The theme of the conference was Parliamentary leadership for more effective multilateralism that deliver peace and sustainable development for the people and planet.
- From India, Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla participated in the inaugural ceremony of the conference.
- The second part of the conference will be held in physical format in 2021 in Vienna, Austria