ONA__The State Council and the Shura Council yesterday held the first joint session of the 4th regular session of Oman Council’s 7th Term. The meeting was chaired by Sheikh Abdulmalik Abdullah Al Khalili, Chairman of the State Council.

Al Khalili said that the session dealt with reports of joint committees, including reports on draft versions the Labour Law, the Social Protection Law and the biometric fingerprints bill.

This session follows the two councils’ forming joint committees to discuss the divergence of views on draft laws. The two sides reached agreement about all debated items, except for a limited number of items of dispute in the draft biometrics law.

The meeting was attended by Khalid Hilal Al Ma’awali, Chairman of the Shura Council, and the two councils’ members and secretaries general.