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 121st Assembly - No.3, Geneva, 9 October 2009IPU Logo-bottom

121ST IPU ASSEMBLY TO EXAMINE AN EMERGENCY ITEM: GLOBAL FOOD SECURITY

At the 121st Assembly of the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU), which opened today in Geneva, legislators from 128 countries adopted an emergency item entitled Parliamentary action to ensure global food security. The item, which had been submitted by the delegations of Australia and Uganda, was approved by 1,197 votes in favour.

A second proposal, entitled The critical situation in the occupied Palestinian territories and submitted by the Islamic Republic of Iran and Oman, obtained 538 votes.

Established in 1889 and with its Headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland, the IPU, the oldest multilateral political organisation, currently brings together 152 affiliated parliaments and eight 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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