SPEAKERS OF PARLIAMENT TO MEET IN GENEVA
Eleven Speakers of Parliaments will gather for the first meeting of the Preparatory Committee of the Second Conference of Presiding Officers of National Parliaments. The Committee will convene on 26 and 27 January 2004, at the IPU Headquarters, The House of Parliaments. The Speakers due to attend the meeting aaare:
- Ms. Katalin Szili, Speaker of the National Assembly of Hungary
- Mr. Abdulhadi Majali, Speaker of the House of Representatives of Jordan
- Ms. Ingrida Udre, Speaker of the Saeima of Latvia
- Mr. Ibrahim Boubakar Keita, Speaker of the National Assembly of Mali
- Mr. Joseph Michael Perera, Speaker of the Parliament of Sri Lanka
- Mr. Björn von Sydow, Speaker of the Riksdag of Sweden
- Mr. Mosé Tjitendero, Speaker of the National Assembly of Namibia
- Mr. Guy Nzouba Ndama, Speaker of the National Assembly of Gabon
- Mr. Pier Ferdinando Casini, Speaker of the Chamber of Deputies of Italy
- Mr. Abdelwahed Radi, Speaker of the Chamber of Representatives of Morocco
- Mr. Francis K. Ole Kaparo, Speaker of the National Assembly of Kenya.
Mr. Lü Congmin, Vice Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the National People’s Congress of China and Mr. Guennadi Seleznev, Former Chairman of the State Duma of the Russian Federation, will also be present.
Mr. Robert del Picchia, Executive President of the French IPU Group, and Mr. John Austin, President of the British IPU Group, will represent the two co-founders of the IPU, France and the United Kingdom.
A senior official of the United Nations, Mr. Michael Moller, Director of Political, Peacekeeping and Humanitarian Affairs, will also attend.
The meeting will be chaired by the President of the Inter-Parliamentary Union, Senator Sergio Páez.
The First Conference of Presiding Officers of National Parliaments, which took place in 2000 at the UN Headquarters in New York, on the occasion of the Millennium Assembly, gathered 150 Speakers of Parliament, who adopted a Declaration of support to the UN activities.
A cocktail and informal meeting with journalists will take place on Tuesday 27 January, at 12.00 noon, at the House of Parliaments (please confirm your presence).
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Established in 1889 and with its Headquarters in Geneva, the IPU, the oldest multilateral organisation, currently has 138 affiliated national parliaments and five regional assemblies as associate members. The organisation of the world's parliaments also has an office as Permanent Observer with the United Nations in New York.
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