FINANCING FOR DEVELPMENT AND DIALOGUE BETWEEN
ISRAELI AND PALESTINIAN MPs ON THE AGENDA OF THE IPU COUNCIL IN GENEVA
The governing Council of the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) will hold its 171st Session, Special Session and related meetings from 23 to 27 September 2002, at the Geneva International Conference Center (CICG). The President of the Swiss National Council, Mrs. Liliane Maury-Pasquier, will address the delegations on Wednesday 25 September at 2.30 p.m.
Apart from the special theme of financing for development, the week's agenda includes dialogue between Israeli and Palestinian MPs, human rights of MPs, partnership between men and women in politics and reform of the IPU. The Council will elect its new President for a three-year mandate. The two candidates to succeed Mrs. Najma Heptulla (India) are the Chilean Senator, Mr. Sergio Páez, and the Speaker of the National Assembly of Namibia, Mr. Mosé Tjitendero.
Mr. Ernesto Zedillo, former President of Mexico and currently Director of the Yale Center for the Study of Globalization, will give a presentation and take questions on Financing for Development on Thursday 26th September from 9.30 to 10.45 a.m.
Delegations to the 171st Council session will be composed of two MPs. Delegations to the Special Session may comprise a maximum of five MPs. The Committee on the Human Rights of Parliamentarians, the Committee on Middle East Questions, the Gender Partnership Group and the Co-ordinating Committee of Women MPs will also meet.
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Established in 1889 and with its Headquarters in Geneva, the IPU, the oldest multilateral organisation, currently has 142 affiliated national parliaments and five regional assemblies as associate members. The organisation of the world's parliaments also has a Liaison Office with the United Nations in New York.
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