In the resolution on "The role of parliaments in assisting multilateral organisations in ensuring peace and security and in building an international coalition for peace", the parliamentarians meeting in Geneva stressed the need to confront the exercise of terror and eliminate the causes that lead to its development, and urged all States to enhance cooperation in the fight against terrorism, while eliminating any perception "that the fight against terrorism is also a fight against particular cultures, peoples or religions". The MPs also called on the multilateral organisations to support efforts to achieve "the immediate termination of all forms of occupation" and "recognition of the responsibility of all occupying forces for the remedy of all ills caused by occupation, including the misappropriation of resources, damage to infrastructure, deterioration of the environment and impediments to economic, social, cultural and educational achievement" and to qualify occupation "as an infringement of international law".

The 109th IPU Assembly also adopted a resolution entitled "Global public goods: a new challenge for parliaments", which calls on both developed and developing countries "to recognise that global public goods have transnational effects and therefore require joint assumption of responsibility" and "to promote an active debate among public policy-makers, civil society, business and academia, while stimulating further research on the subject of global public goods". Governments, parliaments, international organisations and donor agencies are urged "to channel financial resources to poor countries" and "to pay special attention to the debt burden of developing countries, which hinders them from providing global public goods at the domestic level".

The parliamentarians present also adopted a resolution on "The contribution of new information and communication technologies to good governance, the improvement of parliamentary democracy and the management of globalisation", which recommends that each parliament put in place the necessary structures to follow up and monitor annually the development of e-government in its country so as to guarantee its transparency for citizens and democracy, and urges government to take the necessary steps to ensure free community access to those new information and communication technologies (NICTs) that guarantee good governance. The resolution further calls on the international community to promote NICT training for managers and technicians from the South.

The IPU Committee on the Human Rights of Parliamentarians held its 103rd session on the occasion of the 109th Assembly. In his report, the Committee President, Mr. Mahinda Samarasinghe (Sri Lanka) said that the Committee had examined 54 cases concerning 220 parliamentarians in 28 countries, including various public cases (Belarus, Burundi, Cambodia, Colombia, Ecuador, Eritrea, Gambia, Honduras, Indonesia, Madagascar, Malaysia, Mongolia, Myanmar, Pakistan, Palestine, Rwanda, Syria, Turkey, Zimbabwe). Journalists are welcome to consult the Committee's public report.

The 110th IPU Assembly will take place in the first half of 2004. The following topics will be taken up: "The responsibility of the international community and the role of the IPU in promoting international reconciliation in order to establish representative institutions, stabilise regions of conflict and assist post-conflict reconstruction"; "The role of the IPU in promoting an equitable environment for international commerce: the issues of trade in agricultural products and the availability of basic medicines"; and "The role of the IPU in promoting parliamentary democracy as a means of protecting human rights and thereby, in cooperation with the UN, of encouraging reconciliation among peoples and partnership among nations".