TABLE OF CONTENTS Page(s) MEETINGS AND OTHER ACTIVITIES 121st 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 185th Session of the Governing Council 1. Membership of the Inter-Parliamentary Union ........................................................................ 9 2. Financial situation of the IPU ................................................................................................. 9 3. Programme and budget for 2010 ........................................................................................... 9 4. Cooperation with the United Nations system ......................................................................... 10 5. Consolidation of the reform of the IPU …………………….. ................................................... 10 6. Preparation of the 3rd World Conference of Speakers of Parliament.......................................... 11 7. Recent conferences and specialized meetings ........................................................................ 11 8. Reports of plenary bodies and specialized committees ........................................................... 11 9. Future inter-parliamentary meetings ...................................................................................... 11 10. Election of the Secretary General ........................................................................................... 11 255th Session of the Executive Committee ...................................................................................... 12 Coordinating Committee of Women Parliamentarians .................................................................. 12 Subsidiary bodies and committees of the Governing Council 1. Committee on the Human Rights of Parliamentarians ............................................................ 13 2. Committee on Middle East Questions .................................................................................... 13 3. Gender Partnership Group .................................................................................................... 14 Inter-Parliamentary Union – 121st Assembly Other meetings 1. Panel discussion on HIV/AIDS – Universal access to prevention, treatment and care ................ 15 2. Panel discussion on Our World at War: Challenges for International Humanitarian Law ........... 15 3. Panel discussion on Human rights and the Universal Periodic Review ...................................... 15 4. Review and follow-up session on action taken by parliaments and the IPU to give effect to the resolutions adopted by the IPU on the global crisis .................................. 16 Other events 1. Launch of the Missing Persons Handbook for parliamentarians ............................................... 17 2. IPU campaign on Violence against Women ........................................................................... 17 ELECTIONS, APPOINTMENTS AND MEMBERSHIP OF THE INTER-PARLIAMENTARY UNION Elections and appointments 1. President of the 121st Assembly of the Inter-Parliamentary Union ............................................ 18 2. Vice-Presidents of the Inter-Parliamentary Union ................................................................... 18 3. Secretary General .................................................................................................................. 18 4. Executive Committee ............................................................................................................ 18 5. Committee on Middle East Questions .................................................................................... 18 6. Group of Facilitators for Cyprus ............................................................................................... 18 7. Internal auditors for the 2010 ................................................................................................ 18 Membership of the Inter-Parliamentary Union .............................................................................. 19 AGENDA, RESOLUTIONS, VOTES AND OTHER TEXTS OF THE 121st ASSEMBLY OF THE INTER-PARLIAMENTARY UNION Agenda ........................................................................................................................................... 20 Emergency item • Results of the roll-call vote on requests for the inclusion of an emergency item in the agenda of the Assembly ............................................................................................. 21-22 • Resolution: Parliamentary action to ensure global food security ............................................. 23 REPORTS, DECISIONS, RESOLUTIONS AND OTHER TEXTS OF THE GOVERNING COUNCIL OF THE INTER-PARLIAMENTARY UNION Reports, decisions and other texts • Statement by the President of the Assembly on the H1N1 influenza virus ............................. 27 • Statement by the President of the Assembly on the situation in Honduras ............................ 27 • Report by the IPU President on his mission to Israel ............................................................. 28 • Budget of the IPU for the year 2010 .................................................................................... 30 • Table of contributions for the year 2010 .............................................................................. 33 • Cooperation with the United Nations system: List of activities undertaken by the IPU between 11 April and 18 October 2009 ............................................................. 37 • Report on the sixth meeting of the IPU Advisory Group on HIV/AIDS .................................. 40 Future meetings • Future meetings and other activities ..................................................................................... 44 • Agenda of the 122nd Assembly ............................................................................................. 48 • List of international organizations and other bodies invited to follow the work of the 122nd Assembly as observers ........................................................................ 49 2 Inter-Parliamentary Union – 121st Assembly Resolutions concerning the human rights of parliamentarians • Ms. Malalai Joya, of Afghanistan ........................................................................................... 51 • Mr. Shah Ams Kibria, of Bangladesh ..................................................................................... 53 • Sheikh Hasina, of Bangladesh ............................................................................................... 54 • Mr. Victor Gonchar, of Belarus ............................................................................................. 55 • Eight parliamentarians of Burundi ......................................................................................... 56 • Mr. Pasteur Mpawenayo, Mr. Hussein Radjabu, Mr. Théophile Minyurano and Mr. Gérard Nkurunziza, of Burundi ........................................................................................................ 57 • Ms. Mu Sochua, of Cambodia .............................................................................................. 60 • Ten parliamentarians of Colombia ........................................................................................ 63 • Thirteen parliamentarians of the Democratic Republic of the Congo ..................................... 64 • Mr. Jaime Ricaurte Hurtado González and Mr. Pablo Vicente Tapia Farinango, of Ecuador ... 65 • Fifty-six parliamentarians of Ecuador .................................................................................... 66 • Eleven parliamentarians of Eritrea ......................................................................................... 67 • Mr. Mohammed Al-Dainy, of Iraq ........................................................................................ 68 • Mr. Gibran Tueni, Mr. Walid Eido, Mr. Antoine Ghanem and Mr. Pierre Gemayel, of Lebanon .......................................................................................................................... 70 • Mr. Lantoniaina Rabenatoandro, Mr. Henri Randrianjatovo, Mr. Mamisoa Rakotomandimby, Mr. Raymond Rakotozandry, Mr. Randrianatoandro Raharinaivo and Ms. Eliane Naïka, of Madagascar ..................................................................................................................... 71 • Mr. Zorig Sanjasuuren, of Mongolia ...................................................................................... 74 • Twenty-two parliamentarians of Myanmar ............................................................................ 75 • Mr. Marwan Barghouti, of Palestine ...................................................................................... 77 • Mr. Ahmad Sa'adat, of Palestine ........................................................................................... 78 • Thirty-seven parliamentarians of Palestine ............................................................................ 80 • Mr. Abdel Aziz Dweik, of Palestine .....................................................................................