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The Honourable David McGuinty, P.C., M.P., President of the Canadian Group of the Inter-Parliamentary Union (UIPU) and the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) Executive Committee Vice-President for the Twelve Plus geopolitical group, participated in the third sitting of the 285th session of the International Executive Committee which took place virtually on 8 February 2021. Members continued their ...

The Canadian Group of the Inter-Parliamentary Union (UIPU) was invited to participate in the UN Women’s Generation Equality Forum (the Forum) co-hosted by Mexico and France. Taking place online from June 30 to July 2, 2021, the Forum comprised a series of conferences that together constituted the largest global feminist gathering since the 1995 UN World Conference on Women in Beijing. The ...

The 2014–2015 OSCE PA President, Ilkka Kanerva (Finland), chaired the Standing Committee meeting. During its meeting, the Standing Committee heard a report from the PA’s outgoing Treasurer, Mr. Roberto Battelli (Slovenia) and approved a budget increase of 2.4% increase in the budget to cover increased election observation activities, general administrative expenses, and expenses related to ...

Speakers Professor Patrick Minford, former advisor to Margaret Thatcher University of Cardiff and Lord Christopher Haskins of Skidby, Member of the European Union Subcommittee on Economic and financial Affairs and International Trade, House of Lords, presented a session called Frameworks of International Cooperation: Financial and Political ...

The Canadian NATO Parliamentary Association has the honour to present its report on the Meeting of the Standing Committee and the Secretaries of Delegation, held in Ponta Delgada, The Azores, Portugal April 1-2, 2011. Canada was represented by, Senator Raynell Andreychuk, Senator Jane Cordy, Senator Joseph A. Day Senator Pierre Claude Nolin and Mr. James Latimer, Association Secretary ...

L’Association parlementaire canadienne a l’honneur de présenter son rapport sur sa participation à la session du printemps 2013 de l’Assemblée parlementaire de l’OTAN (AP-OTAN), qui s’est tenue du 17 au 20 mai au Luxembourg. Dirigée par Mme Cheryl Gallant, députée, vice-présidente de l’Assemblée, la délégation comprenait le sénateur Joseph Day, président de la ...

The Chair recalled the difficulties that had been experienced in Bali concerning the procedure for the emergency item. A lack of clarity in the rules had been exacerbated by the absence of the IPU President and the inability of the Secretary General to give a firm ruling. This had resulted in the IPU Assembly being placed in the hands of the Speaker of the host Parliament. A copy of the ...

Two decades of civil war in northern Uganda, involving the cult-like Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA), cost tens of thousands of lives and forced some two million people into camps for internally displaced persons (IDPs).

The President Hon. Michael Turner opened the meeting, thanked the Head of the British delegation, Sir Menzies Campbell, for his delegation’s hosting of the Standing Committee meeting, and welcomed all participants.

The Committee agreed a series of meetings. On 7 and 8 May an economic crisis summit meeting would take place in Geneva. Experts would be invited to give presentations on a range of topics. The Council would be asked in Addis for a budget appropriation to cover interpretation costs and so on, amounting to 157,000 Swiss Francs. On 14 December an environmental conference would be held in ...