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From May 15 – 18, 2009, members of the Canadian and American sections of the Canada-United States Inter-Parliamentary Group (IPG) met in La Malbaie, Quebec for the IPG’s 50th Annual Meeting. The U.S. was represented by six Senators and four members of the House of Representatives, while the Canadian delegation included eight Senators and fourteen members of the House of Commons (see ...

He appealed to the 32nd General Assembly of AIPA to generate effective strategies focusing on cooperative frameworks, exchanges of information, enforcement of existing mechanisms, legal implementation, ratification of agreements, conventions, and other policies in order to prevent and reduce tensions in the region including current issues such as terrorism, trans-national crimes, human and ...

The first conference of Arctic parliamentarians was held in 1993 in Iceland, and SCPAR was established the following year. Conferences have been held in a different Arctic country every two years since the second conference in Yellowknife in 1996, the same year that the eight-nation Arctic Council was established at a Ministerial meeting in Ottawa. The Arctic Council also gives standing to ...

To this end she emphasized that the Arctic Council ministerial declaration should send a strong message to the 15th Conference of the Parties (CoP15) of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) to be held in Copenhagen, 7-18 December, 2009.

The NATO PA is an inter-parliamentary organization of legislators from the national parliaments of the 28 member countries of the North Atlantic Alliance, as well as 14 associate member countries. It is institutionally separate and independent from the official NATO structure but serves as a liaison for NATO and member parliaments.[1] The Assembly strengthens parliamentary awareness and ...

Meetings of the IPU provide an important opportunity for Canadian parliamentary diplomacy. This work occurs multilaterally, through the meetings of various committees and other bodies that take place during an IPU Assembly. It also occurs bilaterally, through the opportunities for important side meetings that IPU Assemblies create. The Canadian delegation was able to pursue both during the ...

From 10 to 11 May 2022, the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association hosted a Seminar for Parliamentarians of the 12th Parliament of Guyana. Ms. Brenda Shanahan, Member of Parliament, was invited to provide remarks during a session on “Codes of Conduct, Transparency and Integrity” held on 10 May 2022. This session examined the importance of members maintaining high ethical standards ...

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On 16 June 2022, several Canadian Members of Parliament, including the Chair of the Canadian Branch of the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association, Ms. Alexandra Mendès, M.P., met with the Hon. Gavin Short and the Hon. Leona Roberts, Members of the Falkland Islands Legislative Assembly. Members were pleased to learn about the history of the Falkland Islands and discuss a range of topics ...

· Access to nationality and the effective implementation of the European Convention on Nationality; · Reconsideration on substantive grounds of the previously ratified credentials of the Russian delegation; · Urgent need to deal with new failures to co-operate with the European Court of Human Rights;