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TABLE OF CONTENTS Page(s) MEETINGS 110th Assembly 1. Inaugural Ceremony ..................................................................................................... 4 2. Participation ................................................................................................................ 4 3. Choice of an Emergency Item ........................................................................................ 5 4. Proceedings and Decisions of the Assembly and its Standing Committees ............................. 5 5. Amendments to the Statutes and Rules ........................................................................... 9 174th Session of the Governing Council 1. Membership ................................................................................................................ 9 2. Financial Results for 2003 ............................................................................................... 9 3. Financial Situation ......................................................................................................... 9 4. Amendments to the Statutes and Rules ........................................................................... 10 5. Cooperation with the United Nations System ................................................................... 10 6. Second World Conference of Speakers of Parliaments ......................................................... 10 7. Inter-Parliamentary Foundation for Democracy ................................................................... 11 8. Democracy and Strengthening Parliaments ....................................................................... 11 9. Recent Specialised Conferences and Meetings .................................................................. 11 10. Reports of Plenary Bodies and Specialised Committees ....................................................... 11 11. Future Inter-Parliamentary Meetings ................................................................................ 11 242nd Session of the Executive Committee .............................................................................. 12 Meeting and Coordinating Committee of Women Parliamentarians ......................................... 12 Subsidiary Bodies and Committees of the Governing Council 1. Committee on the Human Rights of Parliamentarians ........................................................ 14 2. Meeting of Representatives of the Parties to the CSCM Process .......................................... 14 3. Committee on Middle East Questions ............................................................................. 15 4. Committee to Promote Respect for International Humanitarian Law .................................... 15 5. Gender Partnership Group ............................................................................................. 16 Inter-Parliamentary Union - 110th Assembly Other events 1. Panel on the Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children ..................................................... 17 2. Panel on Human Rights: a casualty of the fight against terrorism? .......................................... 17 ELECTIONS, APPOINTMENTS AND MEMBERSHIP Elections and appointments 1. Presidency of the 110th Assembly .................................................................................... 18 2. Executive Committee .................................................................................................... 18 3. Bureaux of the Standing Committees ............................................................................... 18 4. Rapporteurs of the Standing Committees to the 111th Assembly .......................................... 19 5. Committee on the Human Rights of Parliamentarians ........................................................ 19 6. Committee on Middle East Questions .............................................................................. 19 7. Group of Facilitators for Cyprus ....................................................................................... 19 8. Coordinating Committee of the Meeting of Women Parliamentarians ................................... 19 9. Gender Partnership Group .............................................................................................. 20 Membership of the Union ..................................................................................................... 21 RESOLUTIONS, DECISIONS AND VOTES OF THE ASSEMBLY Subject items · Resolution: Promoting international reconciliation, helping to bring stability to regions of conflict, and assisting with post-conflict reconstruction .................................... 22 · Resolution: Working towards an equitable environment for international commerce: the issues of trade in agricultural products and the access to basic medicines ........................ 26 · Resolution: Furthering parliamentary democracy in order to protect human rights and encourage reconciliation among peoples and partnership among nations ........................ 30 Emergency item · Results of roll-call votes on requests for the inclusion of an emergency item in the Assembly agenda ........................................................................................ 34-35 · Resolution: The role of parliaments in stopping acts of violence, and the building of the separation wall, in order to create conditions conducive to peace and a lasting solution to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict ......................................................................... 36 REPORTS, DECISIONS, RESOLUTIONS AND OTHER TEXTS OF THE GOVERNING COUNCIL OF THE INTER-PARLIAMENTARY UNION Reports, Decisions and Recommendations · Report on the Structure and Functioning of IPU Members and their participation in the IPU ................................................................................ 38 · Second World Conference of Speakers of Parliaments ................................................... 40 · Report on the Seminar on Strengthening Parliament as a Guardian of Human Rights: the Role of Parliamentary Human Rights Bodies ............................................................. 46 · Summary of decisions taken by the 28th session of the CSCM Coordinating Committee........ 50 · Recommendations of the Panel on the Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children ............. 52 Future Meetings · List of future meetings and other activities ................................................................... 54 · Agenda of the 111th Assembly .................................................................................... 56 2 Inter-Parliamentary Union - 110th Assembly · List of international organisations and other bodies invited to follow the work of the 111th Assembly as observers ............................................................... 57 Resolutions concerning the Human Rights of Parliamentarians · Mr. Andrei Klimov, of Belarus ...................................................................................... 59 · Mr. Victor Gonchar, of Belarus ..................................................................................... 60 · Mr. S. Mfayokurera, Mr. I. Ndikumana, Mr. G. Gahungu, Ms. L. Ntamutumba, Mr. P. Sirahenda and Mr. G. Gisabwamana, of Burundi .................................................... 61 · Mr. Norbert Ndihokubwayo, of Burundi ........................................................................ 63 · Mr. Chhang Song, Mr. Siphan Phay and Mr. Pou Savath, of 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. Octavio Sarmiento Bohórquez, of Colombia ................ 66 · Mr. Hernán Motta Motta, of Colombia .......................................................................... 68 · Ms. Piedad Córdoba, of Colombia ................................................................................ 70 · Mr. Oscar Lizcano, Mr. Jorge Eduardo Gechen Turbay, Mr. Luis Eladio Pérez Bonilla, Mr. Orlando Beltrán Cuéllar, Ms. Gloria Polanco de Lozada and Ms. Consuelo González de Perdomo, of Colombia ......................................................... 71 · Mr. Gustavo Petro Urrego, of Colombia ........................................................................ 74 · Mr. Jaime Ricaurte Hurtado González and Mr. Pablo Vicente Tapia Farinango, of Ecuador ..... 76 · Eleven parliamentarians of Eritrea ................................................................................. 78 · Mr. Miguel Angel Pavón Salazar, of Honduras ................................................................. 79 · Mr. Tengku Nashiruddin Daud, of Indonesia .................................................................. 80 · Mr. Anwar Ibrahim, of Malaysia .................................................................................... 82 · Mr. Zorig Sanjasuuren, of Mongolia ............................................................................... 84 · Twenty-five parliamentarians of Myanmar ...................................................................... 85 · Mr. Asif Ali Zardari, of Pakistan .................................................................................... 87 · Mr. Hussam Khader, of Palestine ................................................................................. 89 · Mr. Léonard Hitimana, of Rwanda ................................................................................ 91 · Mr.