PLACE DU PETIT-SACONNEX
1211 GENEVA 19, SWITZERLAND
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INTER-PARLIAMENTARY UNION PLACE DU PETIT-SACONNEX 1211 GENEVA 19, SWITZERLAND |
| 100th
INTER-PARLIAMENTARY CONFERENCE Moscow (Russian Federation), 6 to 12 September 1998 A G E N D A |
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| Item 1 | Election of the President and Vice-Presidents of the 100th Conference |
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| Item 2 | Consideration of possible requests for the inclusion of a supplementary item in the Conference agenda |
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| Item 3 | General Debate on the political, economic and social situation in the
world |
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| Item 4 | Strong action by national parliaments in the year of the 50th
anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights to ensure
the promotion and protection of all human rights in the 21st century |
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| Item 5 | Water: the means required to preserve, manage and make the
best use of this essential resource for sustainable development |
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| Item 6 | Amendments to the Statutes of the Union (a) Amendment to Article 20.2 of the Statutes (b) Introduction of a new Article 22 in the Statutes |
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| Item 7 | Action to combat the consumption and illicit trafficking of drugs and organised crime | |
The following requests have been presented within the statutory deadline (8 August 1998):
| ITEMS PROPOSED | AUTHOR | DATE OF RECEIPT |
| Action to combat the consumption and illicit trafficking of drugs and organised crime | Group of Latin American countries | 9 April |
| United Nations responsibility in lifting sanctions imposed on Iraq, Libya and Sudan | Group of Iraq | 19 June |
| Support for Lebanon in its continuous efforts to implement UN Security Council resolution 425 adopted in March 1978 | Group of Lebanon | 19 June |
| Parliamentary action to promote peace and stability in the world by urging governments to adhere to the nuclear non-proliferation regime, in particular by taking urgent measures to accede to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, to sign and ratify the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty, and to support the early negotiation of a fissile material cut-off treaty | Group of United Kingdom | 3 July |
| Contribution of the world's parliaments to the revitalisation of the Middle East peace process | Group of Egypt (On behalf of the Arab Inter-Parliamentary Groups) | 20 July |
| Total elimination of nuclear weapons and universality of the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) and the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT) regimes | Group of the Islamic Republic of Iran | 20 July |
| Comprehensively banning nuclear testing, halting all present nuclear tests and stopping the proliferation of nuclear weapons and material | Group of Denmark | 30 July |
| Creation of an information clearing centre to facilitate the establishment of hi-industrial zones in developing countries, with the co-operation of the private sector, within an appropriate international organisational framework | Group of Israel | 3 August |
| Parliamentary action to protest the recent nuclear tests in South Asia, promote international peace and security, and call for all countries to make efforts towards the banning of future nuclear testing by any country, the strengthening of the nuclear non-proliferation regime, and the eventual elimination of nuclear weapons | Group of Japan | 6 August |
| New international order | Group of Venezuela | 7 August |
Procedure to be followed :Under the terms of the provisions of Conference Rule 11, any request for the inclusion of a supplementary item must receive a two-thirds majority of the votes cast in order to be accepted. When several requests are taken into consideration, only the one having received both the requisite majority and the largest number of positive votes will be accepted.
| DATE | MAIN BODIES AND MEETINGS | SUBSIDIARY BODIES | ||
| Friday and Saturday 8 and 9 October |
10 a.m. to 1 p.m. & 3 to 6 p.m.** | Executive Committee* | Afternoon | Gender Partnership Group* |
| Sunday 10 October |
9.30 a.m. to 1 p.m. & 2.30 to 6.30 p.m.** | Meeting of Women Parliamentarians | 8 to 9.15 a.m. | Co-ordinating Committee of Women Parliamentarians* |
| 7 p.m. | Inaugural Ceremony | 9.30 a.m. & 3 p.m. | Human Rights Committee* | |
| Monday 11 October |
9.30 to 11.15 a.m. | Inter-Parliamentary Council | 8 a.m. | Steering Committee of the Conference* |
| 11.30 a.m. | Inter-Parliamentary Conference: Election of President, Amendments to the Statutes, choice of supplementary item, General Debate |
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| 3.30 to 6.30 p.m. | Inter-Parliamentary Conference: General Debate |
2.30 to 4 p.m.* | International Humanitarian Law Committee* | |
| 4 to 6 p.m.* | Sustainable Development Committee* | |||
| Tuesday 12 October |
9.30 a.m. to 1 p.m. & 2.30 to 6.30 p.m.** | Inter-Parliamentary Conference: General Debate Committee II: |
9.30 a.m. & 2.30 p.m. |
Human Rights Committee * |
| 9.30 a.m. & 3 p.m. |
Group of Facilitators for Cyprus* | |||
| 11 a.m. | Steering Committee of the Conference* | |||
| Wednesday 13 October |
9.30 a.m. to 1 p.m. & 2.30 to 6.30 p.m.** | Committee supplementary item: Debate on the item, appointment of the drafting committee Committee III |
9.30 to 12 noon** | CSCM Co-ordinating Committee* |
| 9.30 a.m. & 2.30 p.m. | Committee II: drafting Committee* Human Rights Committee* |
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| 2.30 to 4 p.m. | CSCM Meeting | 11 a.m. | Steering Committee of the Conference* | |
| 4 to 6 p.m.** | Inter-Parliamentary Conference: General Debate |
5 p.m. | Middle East Committee* | |
| Thursday 14 October |
9.30 a.m. to 1 p.m. & 2.30 to 6.30 p.m.** | Inter-Parliamentary Conference: General Debate Executive Committee* |
9.30 a.m. & 2.30 p.m. | Committee III: drafting committee* Committee supplementary item: drafting committee* |
| 2.30 p.m. | Committee II: Adoption of the draft resolution, Elections |
11.30 a.m. | Group of Facilitators for Cyprus* | |
| 2.30 p.m. | Human Rights Committee* | |||
| 5 p.m. | Middle East Committee* | |||
| Friday 15 October |
9.30 a.m. | Committee III: Adoption of the draft resolution, Elections |
9.30 a.m. | Human Rights Committee* |
| Committee supplementary item: Adoption of the draft resolution |
9.30 a.m. to 12 noon | Co-ordinating Committee of Women Parliamentarians* | ||
| 2.30 p.m. | Inter-Parliamentary Conference: Adoption of resolutions, amendment of the Statutes, Close of the Conference |
12.30 p.m. | International Humanitarian Law Committee* | |
| Saturday 16 October |
9 a.m. to 2 p.m.** | Inter-Parliamentary Council | ||
* In camera meetings
** The time of the end of the sitting is purely indicative