HE the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman al-Thani met separately yesterday with Sri Lankan Parliament Speaker Karu Jayasuriya (pictured), Speaker of House of Representatives of Nepal Krishna Bahadur Mahara, and Vice President of the Bundestag (German Parliament) Claudia Roth, on the sidelines of the 140th General Assembly of the Inter-Parliamentary Union. During the meetings, they discussed bilateral relations, ways of supporting and developing them, as well as matters of mutual interest.