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Table of Contents TABLE OF CONTENTS Page(s) MEETINGS AND OTHER ACTIVITIES 123rd Assembly of the Inter-Parliamentary Union 1. Opening of the Assembly ....................................................................................................... 4 2. Participation .......................................................................................................................... 4 3. Choice of an emergency item ................................................................................................ 5 4. Debates and decisions of the Assembly and of the IPU Committee on United Nations Affairs .. 5 187th Session of the Governing Council 1. Membership of the IPU ......................................................................................................... 9 2. Reports on activities of IPU Members .................................................................................... 9 3. Financial situation of the IPU ................................................................................................. 10 4. Programme and budget for 2011 ........................................................................................... 10 5. Cooperation with the United Nations system ......................................................................... 11 6. Consolidation of the reform of the IPU ................................................... …………………….. 11 7. Recent specialized conferences and meetings ........................................................................ 11 8. Reports of plenary bodies and specialized committees ........................................................... 12 9. Future inter-parliamentary meetings ...................................................................................... 12 10. Amendments to the Statutes and Rules .................................................................................. 12 258th Session of the Executive Committee ...................................................................................... 12 Coordinating Committee of Women Parliamentarians .................................................................. 13 Subsidiary bodies and committees of the Governing Council of the Inter-Parliamentary Union 1. Committee on the Human Rights of Parliamentarians ............................................................ 14 2. Committee on Middle East Questions .................................................................................... 14 3. Gender Partnership Group .................................................................................................... 14 Inter-Parliamentary Union – 123rd Assembly Other meetings Review and follow-up session Scaling up parliamentary action on migration and development ................................................................................................... 16 Other events 1. Launch of the Advocacy Kit for Parliamentarians on Disaster Risk Reduction .......................... 16 2. Press events .......................................................................................................................... 16 ELECTIONS, APPOINTMENTS AND MEMBERSHIP OF THE INTER-PARLIAMENTARY UNION Elections and appointments 1. President of the 123rd Assembly of the Inter-Parliamentary Union ........................................... 17 2. Vice-President of the Executive Committee ............................................................................ 17 3. Vice-Presidents of the Inter-Parliamentary Union ................................................................... 17 4. Executive Committee ............................................................................................................ 17 5. Committee on the Human Rights of Parliamentarians ............................................................ 17 6. Group of Facilitators for Cyprus ............................................................................................... 17 7. Advisory Group of the IPU Committee on United Nations Affairs ........................................... 17 8. Gender Partnership Group ...................................................................................................... 17 9. Internal Auditors for the 2011 accounts ................................................................................... 17 Membership of the Inter-Parliamentary Union .............................................................................. 18 AGENDA, RESOLUTIONS AND OTHER TEXTS OF THE 123rd ASSEMBLY OF THE INTER-PARLIAMENTARY UNION Agenda ........................................................................................................................................... 19 Emergency item Resolution: Immediate action to support international relief efforts in response to natural disasters, in particular with regard to flood-stricken Pakistan ................................... 20 AMENDMENTS TO THE STATUTES AND RULES OF THE INTER-PARLIAMENTARY UNION Text of the amendments to Articles 8 and 9 of the Rules of the Standing Committees and to Article 3 of the Rules of the Secretariat ..................................................................... 23 REPORTS, DECISIONS, RESOLUTIONS AND OTHER TEXTS OF THE GOVERNING COUNCIL OF THE INTER-PARLIAMENTARY UNION Reports, decisions and other texts Statement on the Millennium Development Goals ............................................................... 26 Budget of the IPU for 2011 ................................................................................................. 27 Table of contributions for 2011 ........................................................................................... 30 Cooperation with the United Nations system: List of activities undertaken by the IPU between 2 April and 4 October 2010 .................................................................................. 34 Draft UN General Assembly resolution on cooperation between the United Nations, national parliaments and the IPU ......................................................................................... 37 Report on strengthening the IPU and its relationship with the United Nations ...................... 39 Report of the Committee on Middle East Questions ............................................................. 43 Draft strategic plan for the IPU 2010-2015 .......................................................................... 44 Recapitulation of 33 tasks to develop a comprehensive strategy for the future development of the IPU 2 Inter-Parliamentary Union – 123rd Assembly Future meetings Future meetings and other activities ..................................................................................... 47 Agenda of the 124th Assembly ............................................................................................. 49 List of international organizations and other bodies invited to follow the work of the 124th Assembly as observers ........................................................................ 50 Resolutions concerning the Human Rights of Parliamentarians Ms. Malalai Joya, Afghanistan ............................................................................................... 52 Mr. Shah Ams Kibria, Bangladesh ......................................................................................... 53 Sheikh Hasina, Bangladesh ................................................................................................... 54 Mr. Victor Gonchar, Belarus ................................................................................................. 55 Eight parliamentarians from Burundi ..................................................................................... 57 Mr. Pasteur Mpawenayo, Mr. Hussein Radjabu, Mr. Théophile Minyurano and Mr. Gérard Nkurunziza, Burundi ............................................................................................................ 59 Mr. Sam Rainsy, Cambodia .................................................................................................. 60 Ms. Mu Sochua, Cambodia .................................................................................................. 64 Mr. Pedro Nel Jiménez Obando, Mr. Leonardo Posada Pedraza, Mr. Octavio Vargas Cuéllar, Mr. Pedro Luis Valencia Giraldo, Mr. Bernardo Jaramillo Ossa, Mr. Manuel Cepeda Vargas, and Mr. Hernán Motta Motta, Colombia .............................................................................. 66 Mr. Luis Carlos Galán Sarmiento, Colombia .......................................................................... 68 Mr. Jorge Tadeo Lozano Osorio, Colombia ........................................................................... 71 Mr. Wilson Borja, Colombia ................................................................................................. 73 Mr. Alvaro Araújo Castro, Colombia ..................................................................................... 74 Mr. Jaime Ricaurte Hurtado González and Mr. Pablo Vicente Tapia Farinango, Ecuador ....... 77 Eleven parliamentarians from Eritrea ..................................................................................... 79 Mr. Mohammed Al-Dainy, Iraq ............................................................................................ 80 Mr. Gibran Tueni, Mr. Walid Eido, Mr. Antoine Ghanem and Mr. Pierre Gemayel, Lebanon .............................................................................................................................
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