Speaker Mohamed Nasheed has been appointed as the chairman of Asia Pacific Democrat Union.

Maldives Democratic Party (MDP) secretariat announced the news, congratulating Speaker Nasheed.

The Asia Pacific Democrat Union (APDU) is an international regional association of member parties, associated with the International Democrat Union and includes center-right to right wing political parties.

MDP is also part of this ideology, hence they remain the only political party from the Maldives that is a member of the union.

A number of political parties currently running governments around the world are with APDU including India's The Bharatiya Janata Party, Sri Lanka's United National Party and the Republican Party of USA.

The Prime Minister of Sri Lanka and Chairman of APDU, Ranil Wickremesinghe was the last chairman.