LAGOS, April 18 (Xinhua) -- Nigeria will host the 12th Afro-Arab Parliamentary Conference slated for April 21-24 at the International Conference Centre, Abuja, the Lagos-based Guardian newspaper reported on Saturday.

    The government spokesman Baba-Shehu Agaie said more than 350 delegates are expected to attend the conference. Nigeria is expected to assume the presidency of the body for the next two years.

    The bi-annual conference was first opened in Tunis, the capital of Tunisia, in 1984 with an initiative of the Arab speaking countries. Nigeria became its member in 2007. It was elected to host the 12th edition at the last conference held at Damascus, Syria.

    Agaie said delegates would debate the white paper on global terrorism.