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From November 17 to 24, 2004, the Speaker of the National Council of the Swiss Confederation and Mr. John Clerc, Assistant Secretary-General of the Federal Assembly visited Ottawa and Regina at the invitation of the Honourable Peter Milliken, M.P., Speaker of the House of Commons.

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 ...

The delegation of the Canadian Branch of the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association which attended the 59th Annual Conference of the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association in Johannesburg, South Africa from August 28 to September 6, 2013, has the honour to present its Report.

On April 21, 2021, the Hon. Salma Ataullahjan, Senator, chaired a meeting of the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) on gender-sensitive parliaments and gender-responsive legal reforms. The Hon. Kim Pate, Senator, Ms. Iqra Khalid, MP, Ms. Yasmin Ratansi, MP, and Ms. Lindsay Mathyssen, MP, also attended the meeting, which was moderated by Ms. Sandra Pepera of the National Democratic Institute. In ...

Established in 1975 as the “Conference on Security and Co-operation in Europe” (CSCE), the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) was given its current name at the Budapest Summit in December 1994. The OSCE participating countries, currently 57 in number,[1] are “all the European states, the United States and Canada.”[2] The OSCE maintains special relations with ...

From October 2 to 4, 2017, the Right Honourable the Lord Fowler, Lord Speaker of the House of Lords of the United Kingdom, visited Ottawa at the invitation of the Honourable George J. Furey, Q.C., Speaker of the Senate, and the Honourable Geoff Regan, P.C., M.P., Speaker of the House of Commons. He was accompanied by Lady Fowler, Mr. Patrick Milner, Private Secretary to the Lord Speaker, and ...

La rencontre visait principalement à galvaniser l’élan en faveur de la participation politique des jeunes femmes, à prendre conscience des difficultés que vivent les jeunes femmes quand elles souhaitent assumer des responsabilités politiques, à permettre aux participants de témoigner de leurs expériences et de renforcer leurs capacités, à trouver des solutions stratégiques et à ...

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’s programs and annual budget to the Bureau. Between meetings of the Bureau ...

It shall function within the mandate of the Speakers of the Senate and House of Commons and with the support of the Parliamentary Relations Secretariat and in affiliation from time to time with selected groups of Italian parliamentarians.

Une délégation de quatre parlementaires représentant la Section canadienne de ParlAmericas s’est déplacée à Cartagena, à Medellín et à Bogotá, en Colombie, du 6 au 13 février 2015. Dirigée par l’honorable Michael MacDonald, sénateur, la délégation se composait également de l’honorable Jim Munson, sénateur, et des députés, M. Earl Dreeshen et LaVar Payne. Les ...