116th IPU Assembly and related events

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116th IPU ASSEMBLY
Nusa Dua, Bali (Indonesia), 29 April - 4 May 2007

AGENDA OF THE ASSEMBLY

Item 1	Election of the President and Vice-Presidents of the 116^th Assembly
Item 2	Consideration of possible requests for the inclusion of an emergency item in the Assembly agenda
Item 3	General debate on the political, economic and social situation in the world with the overall theme of Global warming: ten years after Kyoto
Item 4	Ensuring respect for and peaceful co-existence between all religious communities and beliefs in a globalized world (Standing Committee on Peace and International Security)
Item 5	Job creation and employment security in the era of globalization (Standing Committee on Sustainable Development, Finance and Trade)
Item 6	Promoting diversity and equal rights for all through universal democratic and electoral standards (Standing Committee on Democracy and Human Rights)
Item 7	Approval of the subject items for the 118^th Assembly and appointment of the Rapporteurs
Item 8	International cooperation to combat terrorism, its root causes and its financing, including cross-border funding (Emergency item)

Updated on 29 April 2007

REQUESTS FOR INCLUSION OF AN EMERGENCY ITEM

Items proposed Author Date of receipt

Combating financing of terrorism – the need to strengthen international cooperation India 22 March

The building of border walls: a human rights violation Mexico 12 April

Strengthening and expanding international cooperation to combat terrorism and its cross-border funding Algeria 24 April

Ensuring effectiveness of international law and preventing the abuse of its provisions Islamic Republic of Iran 25 April

The need for the restoration of peace and immediate withdrawal of foreign occupying forces from Iraq Indonesia 28 April

Strengthening the role of parliaments in addressing climate change by promoting the implementation of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and the Kyoto Protocol Indonesia 28 April

Procedure to be followed:
Under the terms of Assembly Rule 11.2(a), "A request for the inclusion of an emergency item must relate to a major event of international concern on which it appears necessary for the IPU to express its opinion. Such a request must receive a two-thirds majority of the votes cast in order to be accepted." Moreover, Assembly Rule 11.2(b) stipulates that "The Assembly may place only one emergency item on its agenda. Should several requests obtain the requisite majority, the one having received the largest number of positive votes shall be accepted."

Updated on 29 April 2007

SESSION DOCUMENTS

Title and code Available versions

Information letter about date and venue of the 116th IPU Assembly
GRP/2006/Inf.3 (28 November 2006) [English] [French]

Texts of resolutions adopted by the 116th Assembly [English] [French]

Convocation of the 116th IPU Assembly
A/116/C.1 (20 December 2006) [English] [French]

Vacancies to be filled during the 116th Assembly
A/116/Inf.2.rev (10 April 2007) [English] [French]

Convocation of the 180th session of the Governing Council
CL/180/C.1 (12 January 2007) [English] [French]

Convocation of the Twelfth Meeting of Women parliamentarians
FEM/12/C.1 (15 March 2007) [English] [French]

Agenda of the Twelfth Meeting of Women parliamentarians
FEM/12/A.1 (15 March 2007) [English] [French]

Information letter about election of the Bureaux of the Standing Committees
GRP/2007/Inf.1 (16 February 2007) [English] [French]

Convocation of the First Standing Committee (Peace and International Security)
C-I/116/C (24 January 2007) [English] [French]

Convocation of the Second Standing Committee (Sustainable Development, Finance and Trade)
C-II/116/C (24 January 2007) [English] [French]

Convocation of the Third Standing Committee (Democracy and Human Rights)
C-III/116/C (24 January 2007) [English] [French]

First Standing Committee - Amendments to the revised draft resolution
C-I/116/DR-am (27 April 2007) [English] [French]
[English] [French]

First Standing Committee - First batch of amendments to the revised draft resolution
C-I/116/DR-am.1 (10 April 2007) [English] [French]
[English] [French]

First Standing Committee - Revised report prepared by the co-Rapporteurs
C-I/116/R-rev (20 March 2007) [English] [French]
[English] [French]

First Standing Committee - Draft report prepared by the co-Rapporteurs
C-I/116/R-pre (20 December 2006) [English] [French]
[English] [French]

First Standing Committee - Revised draft resolution prepared by the co-Rapporteurs
C-I/116/DR-rev (20 March 2007) [English] [French]
[English] [French]

First Standing Committee - Preliminary draft resolution prepared by the co-Rapporteurs
C-I/116/DR-pre (20 December 2006) [English] [French]
[English] [French]

Second Standing Committee - Amendments to the revised draft resolution
C-II/116/DR-am (27 April 2007) [English] [French]
[English] [French]

Second Standing Committee - First batch of amendments to the revised draft resolution
C-II/116/DR-am.1 (10 April 2007) [English] [French]
[English] [French]

Second Standing Committee - Revised report prepared by the co-Rapporteurs
C-II/116/R-rev (20 March 2007) [English] [French]
[English] [French]

Second Standing Committee - Draft report prepared by the co-Rapporteurs
C-II/116/R-pre (10 January 2007) [English] [French]
[English] [French]

Second Standing Committee - Revised draft resolution prepared by the co-Rapporteurs
C-II/116/DR-rev (20 March 2007) [English] [French]
[English] [French]

Second Standing Committee - Preliminary draft resolution prepared by the co-Rapporteurs
C-II/116/DR-pre (10 January 2007) [English] [French]
[English] [French]

Second Standing Committee - Information document submitted by the ILO
C-II/116/Doc.Inf.1 (12 April 2007) [English] [French]

Third Standing Committee - Amendments to the revised draft resolution
C-III/116/DR-am (27 April 2007) [English] [French]
[English] [French]

Third Standing Committee - First batch of amendments to the revised draft resolution
C-III/116/DR-am.1 (10 April 2007) [English] [French]
[English] [French]

Third Standing Committee - Revised report prepared by the co-Rapporteurs
C-III/116/R-rev (20 March 2007) [English] [French]
[English] [French]

Third Standing Committee - Draft report prepared by the co-Rapporteurs
C-III/116/R-pre (24 January 2007) [English] [French]
[English] [French]

Third Standing Committee - Revised draft resolution prepared by the co-Rapporteurs
C-III/116/DR-rev (20 March 2007) [English] [French]
[English] [French]

Third Standing Committee - Preliminary draft resolution prepared by the co-Rapporteurs
C-III/116/DR-pre (19 January 2007) [English] [French]
[English] [French]

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DOCUMENTOS EN ESPAÑOL
(La traducción es responsabilidad de la Secretaría del GRULAC)
DOCUMENTS IN SPANISH
(Translation under the responsibility of the GRULAC Secretariat)

Members are kindly requested to take note of the following timetable for the circulation of the co-Rapporteurs’ draft reports and draft resolutions, as well as of the deadlines for the submission of suggestions and/or comments on the draft report and of amendments to the draft resolutions.

Date	Action
20 December 2006	The IPU Secretariat will circulate the draft reports and preliminary draft resolutions to all IPU Member Parliaments.
13 February 2007	Deadline for the submission of suggestions and/or comments on the draft reports and for the submission of amendments to the preliminary draft resolution.
13 March 2007	The IPU Secretariat will submit the reports and the revised draft resolutions to all Members.
9 April 2007	The IPU Secretariat will circulate to all Members any proposals for amendment of the revised draft resolutions that have been received since 13 March.
22 April 2007	Deadline for the submission of amendments to the revised draft resolutions

To facilitate work on the revised draft, Members are kindly requested to submit all proposals for amendments to the preliminary draft resolution by 13 February 2007. Delegations wishing to amend the text after that date are requested to await the publication of the revised draft on 13 March, and to refer to that updated text in submitting their proposals.

Updated on 16 April 2007

GENERAL TIMETABLE OF THE ASSEMBLY AND RELATED MEETINGS

Friday, 27 April 10 a.m. - 1 p.m. Executive Committee *

3 - 5 p.m. Executive Committee *

5 - 6 p.m. Gender Partnership Group *

Saturday, 28 April 10 a.m. - 1 p.m. Executive Committee *

3 - 5 p.m. Executive Committee *

5 - 6 p.m. Gender Partnership Group *

Sunday, 29 April 8 - 9.15 a.m. Coordinating Committee of Women Parliamentarians *

9.30 a.m - 1 p.m. Meeting of Women Parliamentarians

10 a.m - 1 p.m. Committee on the Human Rights of Parliamentarians *

2.30 - 6.30 p.m. Meeting of Women Parliamentarians

3 - 6 p.m. Committee on the Human Rights of Parliamentarians *

7.30 p.m. Inaugural Ceremony of the 116th Assembly of the Inter-Parliamentary Union and related meetings

Monday, 30 April 8 - 9 a.m. Assembly Steering Committee *

9 - 10 a.m. Governing Council (Election of the President of the Assembly, Questions relating to Members and Report on the activities of the Executive Committee)

9 a.m. - 1 p.m. First Committee (Peace and Security): Presentation of the report of the Rapporteurs and of the draft resolution; debate; eventual designation of a drafting committee

10.15 a.m. - 1 p.m. Assembly: Election of the President, followed by plenary debate

10.30 a.m. - 1 p.m. Committee on Middle East Questions *

2.30 - 6.30 p.m. Assembly: Continuation of the plenary debate and at 4.30 p.m. consideration of requests for the inclusion of an emergency item
Committee on the Human Rights of Parliamentarians *

2.30 - 4.30 p.m. First Committee (Peace and Security): continuation of the debate or drafting committee

4.30 - 6.30 p.m. First Committee (Peace and Security): Start or continuation of the drafting committee
Second Committee (Sustainable Development, Finance and Trade): Presentation of the report of the Rapporteurs and of the draft resolution; debate

Tuesday, 1 May 9 a.m. - 1 p.m. Assembly: continuation of the plenary debate
Second Committee (Sustainable Development, Finance and Trade): continuation of the debate and eventual designation of a drafting committee
First Committee (Peace and Security): Continuation of the drafting committee *

9.30 a.m. - 1 p.m. Committee on the Human Rights of Parliamentarians *
Group of Facilitators for Cyprus *

2.30 - 4.30 p.m. First Committee (Peace and Security): Continuation and end of the drafting committee*

2.30 - 6.30 p.m. Third Committee (Democracy and Human Rights): Presentation of the report of the Rapporteurs and of the draft resolution; debate; eventual designation of a drafting committee
Eventual drafting committee on the emergency item *
Committee on the Human Rights of Parliamentarians *

4.30 - 6.30 p.m. Assembly: continuation of the debate

Wednesday, 2 May    9 - 11 a.m Third Committee (Democracy and Human Rights): continuation of the debate or start of the drafting committee *

9 a.m. - 1 p.m. Second Committee (Sustainable Development): start of the drafting committee *

9.30 a.m. - 12.30 p.m. Panel on violence against children: Making School Safe for Children

9.30 a.m. - 1 p.m. Committee on the Human Rights of Parliamentarians *

11 a.m - 1 p.m. Third Committee (Democracy and Human Rights): start or continuation of the drafting committee *

11.30 a.m. - 1 p.m. Eventual drafting committee on the emergency item

2.30 - 3.30 p.m. Meeting of the Bureau of the First Committee (Peace and Security)*

2.30 - 5 p.m. Panel discussion on global warming

2.30 - 5.30 p.m. Second Committee (Sustainable Development): continuation and end of the work of the drafting committee *
Third Committee (Democracy and Human Rights): continuation and end of the drafting committee *
International Humanitarian Law Committee (Bureau of the Third Standing Committee) *

3.30 - 6.30 p.m. First Committee (Peace and Security): Adoption of the report and draft resolution

5.30 - 6.30 p.m. Meetings of the Bureaux of the:
    - Second Committee (Sustainable Development) *
    - Third Committee (Democracy and Human Rights) *

Thursday, 3 May 9 - 11 a.m. Second Committee (Sustainable Development): Adoption of the report and draft resolution

9 a.m. - 1 p.m. Assembly: continuation of the debate

10 a.m. - 1 p.m. Executive Committee *

11 a.m. - 1 p.m. Third Committee (Democracy and Human Rights): Adoption of the report and draft resolution

2 - 5 p.m. Committee on the Human Rights of Parliamentarians *

2.30 - 5 p.m. Coordinating Committee of Women Parliamentarians *

2.30 - 6.30 p.m. Assembly: continuation of the debate

5 - 7 p.m. Committee on Middle East Questions *

Friday, 4 May 10 a.m. - 1 p.m. Governing Council (including the presentation of some of the reports of the subsidiary bodies, such as Human Rights Committee, etc.)

3 - 4 p.m. Continuation of the Governing Council

4 - 6 p.m. Closing session of the Assembly: Reports of the Committees, and adoption of the resolutions and decisions;
Closure of the 116th Assembly of the Inter-Parliamentary Union

* In camera meetings

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Updated on 16 April 2007
GENERAL TIMETABLE OF THE ASSEMBLY AND RELATED MEETINGS

Friday, 27 April	10 a.m. - 1 p.m.	Executive Committee *

	3 - 5 p.m.	Executive Committee *

	5 - 6 p.m.	Gender Partnership Group *

Saturday, 28 April	10 a.m. - 1 p.m.	Executive Committee *

	3 - 5 p.m.	Executive Committee *

	5 - 6 p.m.	Gender Partnership Group *

Sunday, 29 April	8 - 9.15 a.m.	Coordinating Committee of Women Parliamentarians *

	9.30 a.m - 1 p.m.	Meeting of Women Parliamentarians

	10 a.m - 1 p.m.	Committee on the Human Rights of Parliamentarians *

	2.30 - 6.30 p.m.	Meeting of Women Parliamentarians

	3 - 6 p.m.	Committee on the Human Rights of Parliamentarians *

	7.30 p.m.	Inaugural Ceremony of the 116th Assembly of the Inter-Parliamentary Union and related meetings

Monday, 30 April	8 - 9 a.m.	Assembly Steering Committee *

	9 - 10 a.m.	Governing Council (Election of the President of the Assembly, Questions relating to Members and Report on the activities of the Executive Committee)

	9 a.m. - 1 p.m.	First Committee (Peace and Security): Presentation of the report of the Rapporteurs and of the draft resolution; debate; eventual designation of a drafting committee

	10.15 a.m. - 1 p.m.	Assembly: Election of the President, followed by plenary debate

	10.30 a.m. - 1 p.m.	Committee on Middle East Questions *

	2.30 - 6.30 p.m.	Assembly: Continuation of the plenary debate and at 4.30 p.m. consideration of requests for the inclusion of an emergency item Committee on the Human Rights of Parliamentarians *

	2.30 - 4.30 p.m.	First Committee (Peace and Security): continuation of the debate or drafting committee

	4.30 - 6.30 p.m.	First Committee (Peace and Security): Start or continuation of the drafting committee Second Committee (Sustainable Development, Finance and Trade): Presentation of the report of the Rapporteurs and of the draft resolution; debate

Tuesday, 1 May	9 a.m. - 1 p.m.	Assembly: continuation of the plenary debate Second Committee (Sustainable Development, Finance and Trade): continuation of the debate and eventual designation of a drafting committee First Committee (Peace and Security): Continuation of the drafting committee *

	9.30 a.m. - 1 p.m.	Committee on the Human Rights of Parliamentarians * Group of Facilitators for Cyprus *

	2.30 - 4.30 p.m.	First Committee (Peace and Security): Continuation and end of the drafting committee*

	2.30 - 6.30 p.m.	Third Committee (Democracy and Human Rights): Presentation of the report of the Rapporteurs and of the draft resolution; debate; eventual designation of a drafting committee Eventual drafting committee on the emergency item * Committee on the Human Rights of Parliamentarians *

	4.30 - 6.30 p.m.	Assembly: continuation of the debate

Wednesday, 2 May	9 - 11 a.m	Third Committee (Democracy and Human Rights): continuation of the debate or start of the drafting committee *

	9 a.m. - 1 p.m.	Second Committee (Sustainable Development): start of the drafting committee *

	9.30 a.m. - 12.30 p.m.	Panel on violence against children: Making School Safe for Children

	9.30 a.m. - 1 p.m.	Committee on the Human Rights of Parliamentarians *

	11 a.m - 1 p.m.	Third Committee (Democracy and Human Rights): start or continuation of the drafting committee *

	11.30 a.m. - 1 p.m.	Eventual drafting committee on the emergency item

	2.30 - 3.30 p.m.	Meeting of the Bureau of the First Committee (Peace and Security)*

	2.30 - 5 p.m.	Panel discussion on global warming

	2.30 - 5.30 p.m.	Second Committee (Sustainable Development): continuation and end of the work of the drafting committee * Third Committee (Democracy and Human Rights): continuation and end of the drafting committee * International Humanitarian Law Committee (Bureau of the Third Standing Committee) *

	3.30 - 6.30 p.m.	First Committee (Peace and Security): Adoption of the report and draft resolution

	5.30 - 6.30 p.m.	Meetings of the Bureaux of the: - Second Committee (Sustainable Development) * - Third Committee (Democracy and Human Rights) *

Thursday, 3 May	9 - 11 a.m.	Second Committee (Sustainable Development): Adoption of the report and draft resolution

	9 a.m. - 1 p.m.	Assembly: continuation of the debate

	10 a.m. - 1 p.m.	Executive Committee *

	11 a.m. - 1 p.m.	Third Committee (Democracy and Human Rights): Adoption of the report and draft resolution

	2 - 5 p.m.	Committee on the Human Rights of Parliamentarians *

	2.30 - 5 p.m.	Coordinating Committee of Women Parliamentarians *

	2.30 - 6.30 p.m.	Assembly: continuation of the debate

	5 - 7 p.m.	Committee on Middle East Questions *

Friday, 4 May	10 a.m. - 1 p.m.	Governing Council (including the presentation of some of the reports of the subsidiary bodies, such as Human Rights Committee, etc.)

	3 - 4 p.m.	Continuation of the Governing Council

	4 - 6 p.m.	Closing session of the Assembly: Reports of the Committees, and adoption of the resolutions and decisions; Closure of the 116th Assembly of the Inter-Parliamentary Union

* In camera meetings