PARLIAMENTARY DIPLOMACY IN ACTION AT THE 115TH IPU ASSEMBLY IN GENEVA
The President of the World Bank, Mr. Paul Wolfowitz, will address the 115th Assembly of the Inter-Parliamentary Union and respond to questions from legislators on Tuesday 17 October. The IPU President, Mr. Pier Ferdinando Casini, former Speaker of the Italian Chamber of Deputies, will preside over the Assembly which will be held at the Centre international de Conférences de Genève from16 to 18 October 2006.
Three items are on the agenda: Cooperation between parliaments and the United Nations in promoting peace, combating terrorism and energy security; The role of parliaments in achieving the Millennium Development Goals, in particular the problem of debt and the eradication of poverty and corruption; and missing persons, people unaccounted for as a result of armed conflict or internal violence.
On Monday, 16 October at 5 p.m., parliamentarians will also debate an emergency item. Four proposals have been received so far, three focusing on the situation in Lebanon and its reconstruction, and one on the announcement by the Democratic People's Republic of Korea of its nuclear weapons test.
On Tuesday 17 October, from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m., a panel discussion will be held on IPU's Committee on the Human Rights of Parliamentarians to commemorate its thirty years of work.
The Committee on the Human Rights of Parliamentarians and the Committee on Middle East Questions will also meet in camera during the Assembly.
So far, 125 delegations have confirmed their participation in the Assembly.
Established in 1889 and with its Headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland, the IPU, the oldest multilateral political organisation, currently brings together 146 affiliated parliaments and seven regional assemblies as associate members. The world organisation of parliaments has an Office in New York, which acts as its Permanent Observer at the United Nations.
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