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Parliamentary Delegation to the 10Th Asia-Europe Parliamentary Partnership Meeting (ASEP 10) Brussels, 27–28 September 2018 Parliament of Australia Parliamentary Delegation to the 10th Asia-Europe Parliamentary Partnership Meeting (ASEP 10) Brussels, 27–28 September 2018 December 2018 Commonwealth of Australia 2018 ISBN 978-1-74366-929-7 (Printed version) ISBN 978-1-74366-930-3 (PDF version) This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Australia License. The details of this licence are available on the Creative Commons website: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/au Members of the Delegation Leader of the Delegation Senator the Hon Scott Ryan President of the Senate Senator for Victoria Liberal Party of Australia Delegates Senator Sue Lines Deputy President of the Senate Senator for Western Australia Australian Labor Party The Hon Jane Prentice MP Member for Ryan (Qld) Liberal Party of Australia Official Mr Justin Baker Delegation Secretary PARLIAMENTARY DELEGATION TO ASEP 10 10th Asia-Europe Parliamentary Partnership Ryan, President of the Senate, who co-chaired Meeting (ASEP10) proceedings in the plenary. Senator Sue Lines, Deputy President of the Senate, and the Hon th The 10 Asia-Europe Parliamentary Jane Prentice MP were also members of the Partnership meeting (ASEP 10) hosted by the delegation. European Parliament took place in Brussels from 27-28 September 2018. The meeting Proceedings of each of the plenary sessions focused on the impact of climate change on were webcast live on the European three key areas: migration, the economy and Parliament’s website2 and all formal security. proceedings of the meeting are available for download. Participants sought to consider and debate the environmental challenges facing Asia and The ASEP meeting provided delegation Europe: sustainable development and the members with the opportunity to exchange circular economy, urban areas management, views with parliamentary colleagues on the cooperating on water resources, waste increasing environmental challenges facing treatment and plastic reduction, food security ASEP member countries. and clean technologies. Background The meeting was attended by 199 registered participants from 41 countries, and involved The Asia-Europe Parliamentary Partnership the active participation of 84 parliamentarians (ASEP) meeting is the parliamentary extension from the European Parliament and the of the Asian-European political dialogue, an following countries: Australia, Austria, effort to enhance relations between Europe Bangladesh, Belgium, Brunei, Bulgaria, and Asia. The most visible element of this Cambodia, China, Croatia, Cyprus, the Czech dialogue is the biannual Asia-Europe Meeting Republic, Finland, Germany, Hungary, India, (ASEM), an inter-governmental summit. Indonesia, Italy, Kazakhstan, Laos, Lithuania, ASEM was established in 1996 as an Malaysia, Malta, Mongolia, Norway, Pakistan, intergovernmental process to foster political Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Romania, the dialogue and strengthen cooperation Russian Federation, Singapore, Slovenia, between Asia and Europe, and to tackle Spain, Thailand, and Vietnam. political, economic, social, cultural, and The European External Action Service, the educational issues of common interest, on the European Commission, the Asia-Europe basis of mutual respect and equal partnership. Foundation, and several other organisations ASEM currently comprises 51 partner and individuals with relevant expertise also countries (30 European countries, 19 Asian participated in the meeting as guests of the countries and Australia and New Zealand) and European Parliament. A complete list of two institutional partners: the European 1 Union and the Association of Southeast Asia registered participants is available online. Nations Secretariat. The Australian Parliament’s delegation to the th meeting was led by Senator the Hon Scott The 12 ASEM Summit was held on 17-18 October, also in Brussels, with the theme: 1 http://www.epgenpro.europarl.europa.eu/static/ asep10/en/participants.html. 2 http://www.europarl.europa.eu/. 1 PARLIAMENTARY DELEGATION TO ASEP 10 Europe and Asia: Global Partners for Global o reporting back from the thematic Challenges. sessions; and ASEP’s objectives o adoption of final declaration; and closing remarks. The stated objectives of ASEP are: o a. To serve as a forum for inter- Preparatory and Drafting Committee parliamentary contacts, exchanges and Prior to the official opening of the ASEP10 diplomacy among parliaments, and to meeting, one parliamentarian from each promote mutual understanding among the delegation was invited to participate in the people and countries of Asia and Europe. preparatory and drafting committee in order b. To provide a link between parliaments of to finalise the draft agenda and the final Asia and Europe and ASEM, and thereby to declaration to be adopted by consensus at the make an active parliamentary final plenary session. The Committee was 3 contribution. chaired by Ms Heidi Hautala, Vice President of the European Parliament. As one of ASEP’s objectives is to influence the agenda of the ASEM summit, ASEP is usually Senator Ryan represented the Australian held in the place where the summit is to be Parliament on the preparatory committee, hosted, shortly before the summit, as was the while Senator Lines and Mrs Prentice case with this year’s meeting. attended as observers. Meeting program The program for ASEP 10 (see Appendix 1 for full details of the program) comprised the following components: • Preparatory and drafting committee • Official opening • First plenary session: Climate change, challenge for multilateralism • Three parallel thematic sessions with discussion panels which focused on Senator Ryan, pictured with representatives from the the impact of climate change and Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, represented environment on economy, migration Australia on the Preparatory and Drafting Committee. and security respectively. Source: Delegation secretariat • Final plenary session, including: The committee considered in detail the terms o presentation on the ASEM Sustainable Connectivity Portal; of the draft declaration which had been circulated to delegates in advance of the meeting. A number of amendments were 3 Rules of Procedure of Asia-Europe Parliamentary Partnership Meetings, adopted by ASEP IV, 5 May proposed and considered by the committee 2006. and several delegates took the floor to 2 PARLIAMENTARY DELEGATION TO ASEP 10 express support for, or to oppose, proposals. many millions of citizens represented at ASEP The spirit of co-operation and compromise expected their parliamentarians to be more exhibited by delegates enabled a final draft to ambitious in addressing common challenges be settled so that it could be presented to the facing Europe, Asia and beyond, to promote plenary for adoption on the final day of the sustainable development. meeting. Further opening addresses were made by Official opening Mr Yondonperenlei Baatarbileg (Parliament of Mongolia), Dr Chaudhury (Speaker, ASEP 10 was officially opened by Ms Hautala, Parliament of Bangladesh); and Mr Zhang who presided over the meeting together with Zhijun (National People’s Congress of China). co-chairs Senator Ryan and Dr Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury, Speaker of the Parliament of First plenary session Bangladesh. The opening session took place in the European Parliament Hemicycle in the The topic of the first plenary session was Climate change, challenge for multilateralism. Paul-Henri Spaak building. The presentations and statements during this session provided a foundation for the working group discussions that followed. Senator Ryan made a presentation on behalf of the Australian Parliament during this session. In his remarks, Senator Ryan acknowledged that Australia would continue to do its part to meet its international commitments, but emphasised that climate change was clearly a global problem requiring a global solution—a theme that was reinforced by delegates throughout the meeting. Further presentations were made during the opening plenary session by the following participants: • Mr Jo Leinen (European Parliament draftsperson on climate change); • Ms Carmen-Ileana Mihălcescu (Parliament of Romania); L to R: Senator Ryan, pictured with fellow co-chairs of • Mr Mauri Pekkarinen (Parliament of the ASEP 10 meeting, Ms Heidi Hautala (Vice President, Finland); European Parliament) and Dr Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury (Speaker, Parliament of Bangladesh). • Mrs Rosa Marìa Romero Sànchez (Parliament of Spain); Source: Australian Embassy, Brussels • Mr Phung Quoc Hien, (National In her opening remarks, Ms Hautala Assembly, Vietnam); and acknowledged the importance of joint • Mr Ajay Kumar Mishra, (Parliament of declarations submitted to ASEM leaders India). through the ASEP process, but noted that the 3 PARLIAMENTARY DELEGATION TO ASEP 10 Contributions were then invited from the Keynote addresses were made by Mr Allen floor and a number of other delegates made Coliban (Parliament of Romania); and statements. These statements provided an Dr Chaudhury, (Parliament of Bangladesh). opportunity for attendees to learn about a Participants in this session noted that climate range of mitigation and adaptation actions change is causing profound transformation that were taking place in other countries to not just in national economies but in the combat the impacts of climate change. global economy. Therefore, it was agreed that In the afternoon, three parallel thematic an integrated approach was needed, taking sessions were held. Delegation members each into
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