TABLE OF CONTENTS Page(s) MEETINGS AND OTHER ACTIVITIES 129th 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 the IPU Committee on United Nations Affairs ..... 5 5. Amendments to the Statutes and Rules .................................................................................. 9 193rd 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 2014 ........................................................................................... 9 4. Cooperation with the United Nations system ......................................................................... 10 5. Implementation of the IPU Strategy for 2012-2017 ................................................................ 10 6. Recent specialized meetings .................................................................................................. 10 7. Reports of plenary bodies and specialized committees ........................................................... 10 8. Future inter-parliamentary meetings ...................................................................................... 11 267th Session of the Executive Committee ...................................................................................... 11 Coordinating Committee of Women Parliamentarians .................................................................. 13 Committees and subsidiary bodies of the Governing Council 1. Committee on the Human Rights of Parliamentarians ............................................................ 14 2. Committee on Middle East Questions .................................................................................... 14 3. Committee to Promote Respect for International Humanitarian Law ...................................... 14 4. Gender Partnership Group .................................................................................................... 15 5. Forum of Young Parliamentarians of the IPU .......................................................................... 15 Media and communications ............................................................................................................. 16 Inter-Parliamentary Union – 129th Assembly Other meetings 1. Panel discussion on Addressing internal displacement: The responsibility of parliaments .......... 17 2. Panel discussion on Party political control over parliamentarians: Striking the right balance ...... 17 Other events 1. Special debate on the humanitarian impact of the Syrian crisis, with the participation of Mr. A. Guterres, UN High Commissioner for Refugees ........................................................... 18 2. Address by Ms. N. Pillay, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights ...................................... 19 3. Launch of the Handbook for Parliamentarians Sustaining Parliamentary Action to Improve Maternal, Newborn and Child Health ..................................................................................... 19 ELECTIONS, APPOINTMENTS AND MEMBERSHIP OF THE INTER-PARLIAMENTARY UNION Elections and appointments 1. President of the 129th Assembly of the Inter-Parliamentary Union .......................................... 20 2. Vice-Presidents of the Inter-Parliamentary Union ................................................................... 20 3. Vice-President of the Executive Committee ........................................................................... 20 4. Executive Committee ............................................................................................................ 20 5. Sub-Committee on Finance of the Executive Committee ........................................................ 20 6. Sub-Committee on the future IPU-UN cooperation agreement .............................................. 20 7. Committee on Middle East Questions .................................................................................... 20 8. Internal Auditor for the 2014 accounts .................................................................................. 20 Membership of the Inter-Parliamentary Union .............................................................................. 21 AGENDA, RESOLUTIONS AND OTHER TEXTS OF THE 129th ASSEMBLY OF THE INTER-PARLIAMENTARY UNION Agenda ........................................................................................................................................... 22 Emergency item Results of the roll-call vote on the requests for the inclusion of an emergency item in the agenda of the Assembly ....................................................................................... 23-26 Resolution: The role of parliaments in supervising the destruction of chemical weapons and the ban on their use .............................................................................................. 27 Presidential Statement on the terrorist attack in Kenya ................................................................... 28 AMENDMENTS TO THE STATUTES AND RULES · Text of the amendments to the Statutes and Rules .......................................................... 29 REPORTS, DECISIONS, RESOLUTIONS AND OTHER TEXTS OF THE GOVERNING COUNCIL OF THE INTER-PARLIAMENTARY UNION Reports, decisions and other texts · IPU budget for 2014 ...................................................................................................... 37 · Table of contributions for 2014 ...................................................................................... 38 · Cooperation with the United Nations system: List of activities undertaken by the IPU between early April and end September 2013 ............................................................... 42 · Report of the IPU Committee on United Nations Affairs ................................................. 45 · Report of the Committee on Middle East Questions ....................................................... 51 · Gender Mainstreaming at the IPU .................................................................................. 55 · Mission report of the Committee to Promote Respect for International Humanitarian Law to assess the Syrian refugee crisis in Jordan ........................................ 59 · Rules of the Committee to Promote Respect for International Humanitarian Law ............ 66 2 Inter-Parliamentary Union – 129th Assembly Future meetings · Future meetings and other activities ............................................................................... 68 · Agenda of the 130th Assembly ........................................................................................ 70 · List of observers to the 130th Assembly ........................................................................... 71 Resolutions concerning the Human Rights of Parliamentarians · Twenty parliamentarians of Burundi ............................................................................... 73 · Mr. Dieudonné Ambassa Zang, of Cameroon ................................................................. 75 · Mr. Saleh Kebzabo, Mr. Mahamat Saleh Makki, Mr. Mahamat Malloum Kadre, Mr. Routouang Yoma Gola and Mr. Gali Ngothé Gatta, of Chad ..................................... 78 · Thirty-four parliamentarians of the Democratic Republic of the Congo ........................... 80 · Eleven parliamentarians of Eritrea .................................................................................. 84 · Twelve parliamentarians of Madagascar ......................................................................... 85 · Mr. Álvaro Araújo Castro, of Colombia ........................................................................... 88 · Ms. Piedad del Socorro Zuccardi de García, of Colombia ............................................... 90 · Mr. Matar Ebrahim Matar and Mr. Jawad Fairuz Ghuloom, of Bahrain ............................ 92 · Mr. Sam Rainsy, of Cambodia ........................................................................................ 96 · Twenty-four parliamentarians of the Maldives ................................................................ 98 · Mr. Zorig Sanjasuuren, of Mongolia ............................................................................... 100 · Mr. Syed Hamid Saeed Kazmi, of Pakistan ..................................................................... 102 · Mr. Riaz Fatyana, of Pakistan ......................................................................................... 104 · Mr. Marwan Barghouti, of Palestine ............................................................................... 106 · Mr. Ahmad Sa’adat, of Palestine .................................................................................... 107 · Thirteen parliamentarians of Palestine ............................................................................ 108 · Seven parliamentarians of Sri Lanka ..............................................................................