INTER-PARLIAMENTARY UNION PLACE DU PETIT-SACONNEX 1211 GENEVA 19, SWITZERLAND |
102nd
INTER-PARLIAMENTARY CONFERENCE Berlin (Germany), 10 to 16 October 1999 A G E N D A |
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Item 1 | Election of the President and Vice-Presidents of the 102nd 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 | Contribution of parliaments to ensuring respect for and promoting international humanitarian law on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the Geneva Conventions |
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Item 5 | The need to revise the current global financial and economic model |
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Item 6 | The contribution of parliaments to the peaceful coexistence of ethnic, cultural and religious minorities, including migrant populations, within one State, marked by tolerance and the full respect for their human rights |
The following requests have been presented within the statutory deadline (11 September 1999):
ITEMS PROPOSED | AUTHOR | DATE OF RECEIPT |
Support for Lebanon in its continuous efforts to implement UN Security Council resolution 425 adopted in March 1978 | Group of Lebanon | 29 July |
Contribution of parliaments to the peaceful coexistence, marked by tolerance, of ethnic, cultural and religious minorities within one State | Group of Germany | 16 August |
Preparing for old age - a challenge for the 21st century: parliamentary action to promote and protect the rights of older persons and to ensure active ageing and an effective dialogue between generations | Group of Romania | 23 August |
Refraining from imposing an economic, scientific and cultural embargo on peoples for political purposes and calling for its lifting | Group of Iraq | 25 August |
Action by national parliaments to ensure the speedy ratification of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court | Group of Italy | 3 September |
Promotion of refugee protection through a parliamentary and legislative contribution to the principle of burden-sharing in solidarity with the countries and regions worst affected by mass movements of refugees | Group of the Islamic Republic of Iran | 6 September |
The human rights of migrants | Group of Mexico (on behalf of the Group of Latin American countries) | 10 September |
Mobilization of the international community on behalf of earthquake victims in the Mediterranean region | Group of Israel | 10 September |
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.
ITEM PROPOSED | AUTHOR | DATE OF RECEIPT |
Troubling situation in East Timor | Group of Portugal | 15 September |
Procedure to be followed :Under the terms of Conference Rule 11.2(b), "a request for the inclusion of an emergency supplementary item relating to an event of particular international importance occurring during the 30 days preceding the Conference ... shall, in so far as feasible, be admissible. Such a request must receive a four-fifths majority of the votes cast in order to be accepted."
Should the Conference decide to add this emergency item to its agenda, the Steering Committee will make a proposal regarding the procedure to be followed for the preparation of a draft resolution on this subject.
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, 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* | |
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* | |||
4 to 6 p.m.* | Sustainable Development Committee* | |||
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 Committee supplementary item: |
9.30 a.m. | Human Rights Committee* |
9.30 a.m. to 12 noon | Co-ordinating Committee of Women Parliamentarians* | |||
2.30 p.m. | Inter-Parliamentary Conference: Adoption of resolutions, Close of the Conference |
12.30 p.m. | International Humanitarian Law Committee* | |
Saturday 16 October |
9.30 a.m. to 2 p.m.** | Inter-Parliamentary Council |
* In camera meetings
** The time of the end of the sitting is purely indicative