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It shall function within the mandate of the Speakers of the Senate and the House of Commons, with the support of the office of the Executive Secretary, and in affiliation with other NATO Parliamentary groups and the NATO Parliamentary Assembly, whose headquarters is in Brussels. Consultation will be maintained with the Atlantic Council of Canada and with other groups working to foster a strong ...

THE EVENT The ERC is a regional association of legislators from 18 member legislatures from the United States and Canada (see the Appendix). By facilitating cooperation among its member jurisdictions, the ERC promotesmulti-state or region-wide solutions to the problems and challenges facing U.S. state and Canadian provincial legislators. Each year, the ERC holds an annual meeting and regional ...

From 29 September to 1 October, Senator Pierrette Ringuette, Mr. Derek Lee, M.P. and Mr. Maurice Vellacott, M.P. as well as other parliamentarians from across the OSCE region met in Portoroz, Slovenia, for the Assembly’s annual Fall Meetings. The meetings consisted of a conference, a meeting of the Standing Committee, and a Forum on the Mediterranean. The parliamentary conference focused on ...

Cameroon is situated on the Gulf of Guinea, just north of the equator. Its neighbours are Chad to the north, Nigeria to the west, the Central African Republic to the east, and the Republic of the Congo, Gabon and Equatorial Guinea to the south. Its rugged terrain covers approximately 475,440 km2 (approximately the area of the Yukon). Yaoundé, a city located in the interior, serves as the ...

Ms. Lorber-Willis, Director of the Division of Support Services, gave a brief overview of the 2013 budget. In keeping with the recommendations of the Sub-Committee on Finance, the draft budget was balanced and there was zero increase in Members’ assessed contributions. The decision had been taken to freeze reserves in order to achieve that result and use the expected operating surplus of CHF ...

The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe expressed concern about the consequences of austerity measures on democracy and social rights standards. The Assembly said that “budgetary cuts in social expenditure risk further deepening the crisis and undermining social rights.” It also pointed out that the implementation of austerity measures is often linked to bodies “whose ...

This year’s Annual Spring Session was the third held in Berlin. The first came four years after the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1993, with 16 member nations of the then North Atlantic Assembly. In November 2000, Berlin again hosted the 46 th Annual Session of the newly re-named NATO Parliamentary Assembly which by then included 19 member parliaments. This year, the now 26 delegations from ...

Between conferences, Arctic parliamentary cooperation is carried on by the Standing Committee, which started its activities in 1994. The Conference and Standing Committee take initiatives to further Arctic cooperation, and act, in particular, as a parliamentary forum for issues relevant to the work of the Arctic Council. The Standing Committee takes part in the work of the Council as an ...

Ms. Lorber-Willis, Director of the Division of Support Services, gave a brief overview of the 2013 budget. In keeping with the recommendations of the Sub-Committee on Finance, the draft budget was balanced and there was zero increase in Members’ assessed contributions. The decision had been taken to freeze reserves in order to achieve that result and use the expected operating surplus of CHF ...

The purposes of this bilateral visit were many. In broad terms, the delegation held as an objective to convene meetings with a wide variety of groups and individuals, including Haitian parliamentarians, Canadian officials and stakeholders, and personnel and professionals providing services on the ground to Haitians. These meetings were meant to provide the delegation with a more complete ...