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On 30 October 2024, members of the executive committee of the Canada–United Kingdom Inter-Parliamentary Association hosted a luncheon to bid farewell to Her Excellency Susannah Goshko, British High Commissioner to Canada, prior to her next appointment as British Ambassador to Mexico. James Maloney, Member of Parliament and Chair of the Association, gave remarks in which he thanked Ms. Goshko ...

The COTRA delegation was headed by Mr. Tomás Reyes Ortega, Chair, and included 11 diplomats from EU member states, and two representatives from the General Secretariat of the Council of the EU and the EU’s European External Action Service. COTRA’s work focuses on EU relations with the United States and Canada and covers a broad range of issues, from cyber, energy and security policy to ...

Throughout the 131st Assembly, members of the Canadian delegation were able to engage in exchanges with their counterparts and participate in various debates in an attempt to further the principles of representative democracy, the rule of law, human rights and gender equality. They also addressed matters pertinent to Canadian foreign policy, including maternal, newborn and child health, and ...

Mr. Francesco Sorbara, M.P., President, Canada–Europe Parliamentary Association (CAEU), participated in a meeting held in the parliamentary precinct with Her Excellency, Melita Gabric, Ambassador of the European Union to Canada. The Ambassador was accompanied by Mr. Paul Lasserre, Press and Information Officer at the Delegation of the European Union to Canada.

Meeting of the Permanent Delegation of the APF Bureau – November 30, 2020 The permanent delegation of the APF Bureau meets when convened by the APF’s President. It has the power to decide on exceptional administrative matters. It also monitors the implementation of interparliamentary cooperation programs in accordance with the guidelines given by the plenary assembly and presents the APF ...

The main objectives of the event were to increase the interest in participation of young women in politics, to recognize and understand the challenges faced by young women who are engaging in political leadership, to allow participants to share experiences and build capacity, to identify strategic solutions, and to develop a call to action. Following the opening session, the meeting was ...

Meeting on Young Women’s Political Participation and Leadership By videoconference Canadian Group of the Inter-Parliamentary Union (UIPU)

Alicia Bárcena, Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), gave the keynote address, highlighting how the pandemic has affected the economic situation in the Americas and Caribbean region and outlining proposals that could help mitigate its effects. She explained that ECLAC expects that, in 2020, the gross domestic product of the Americas and ...

(1) to develop among its members a greater knowledge of the purposes of NATO and to consider in what manner the Atlantic Alliance may be developed further so as to assist peoples in the signatory countries and, incidentally, all other persons of good will and, concurrently, while maintaining adequate common self defence, to seek to achieve maximum political stability and the greatest possible ...

The Honourable Salma Ataullahjan, Senator, Vice-president of the Canadian Group of the Inter-Parliamentary Union (UIPU) and President of the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) Committee on Middle East Questions (MEQ), called an extraordinary meeting of this committee to discuss recent developments in Palestine and in Libya. The Committee received a briefing from the Secretariat regarding the ...