TABLE OF CONTENTS Page(s) MEETINGS AND OTHER ACTIVITIES 127th Assembly of the Inter-Parliamentary Union 1. Inaugural ceremony .......................................................................................................... 4 2. Opening of the Assembly and election of its President ......................................................... 4 3. Participation .................................................................................................................... 5 4. Choice of an emergency item ............................................................................................ 5 5. Debates and decisions of the Assembly and of the IPU Committee on United Nations Affairs .. 6 6. Closing session of the Assembly ......................................................................................... 9 191st Session of the Governing Council 1. Membership of the Inter-Parliamentary Union .................................................................... 9 2. Reports on activities of IPU Members ................................................................................. 9 3. Financial situation of the IPU ............................................................................................. 10 4. Programme and budget for 2013 ....................................................................................... 10 5. Cooperation with the United Nations system ...................................................................... 10 6. Implementation of the IPU Strategy for 2012-2017 ................................…………………….. 10 7. Recent specialized meetings .............................................................................................. 11 8. Reports of plenary bodies and specialized committees ........................................................ 11 9. Future inter-parliamentary meetings ................................................................................... 11 th 265 Session of the Executive Committee .................................................................................. 11 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. Committee to Promote Respect for International Humanitarian Law ..................................... 14 4. Gender Partnership Group ................................................................................................ 15 Inter-Parliamentary Union – 127th Assembly Other meetings 1. Special Gender Partnership Session on Gender-sensitive parliaments ..................................... 16 2. Joint IPU-ASGP session on Parliamentary representation and communication, and the role of social media ............................................................................................... 16 3. Meeting of young parliamentarians .................................................................................... 17 4. Panel session on Creating opportunities for youth in today's global economy .......................... 17 5. Panel session on Building peace after conflict ...................................................................... 18 6. Panel session on Parliamentary immunity: Benefit or burden? ............................................... 19 7. Panel session on Peak oil: What prospects for energy security? ............................................. 19 Media and communications .................................................................................................... 20 Other events 1. Workshop on new tools to promote nuclear disarmament ................................................... 21 2. Informal panel on Parliamentary and political law ................................................................ 21 3. Informal meeting of parliamentary whips ............................................................................ 21 4. Joint briefing of the IPU and the UN Millennium Campaign ................................................. 22 ELECTIONS, APPOINTMENTS AND MEMBERSHIP OF THE INTER-PARLIAMENTARY UNION Elections and appointments 1. President of the 127th Assembly of the Inter-Parliamentary Union ......................................... 22 2. Vice-Presidents of the Inter-Parliamentary Union ……………………………………………….. 22 3. Vice-President of the Executive Committee ........................................................................ 22 4. Executive Committee ........................................................................................................ 22 5. Sub-Committee on Finance of the Executive Committee ................................................. 22 6. Committee on the Human Rights of Parliamentarians .......................................................... 22 7. Committee on Middle East Questions ................................................................................ 22 8. Committee to Promote Respect for International Humanitarian Law ..................................... 22 9. Internal Auditors for the 2013 accounts .............................................................................. 22 10. Chairperson of the Consultative Commission (cf. Regulation 11.3 of the Staff Regulations) ..... 22 Membership of the Inter-Parliamentary Union ........................................................................... 23 AGENDA, RESOLUTIONS AND OTHER TEXTS OF THE 127th ASSEMBLY OF THE INTER-PARLIAMENTARY UNION Agenda ..................................................................................................................................... 24 Emergency item • Results of the roll-call vote on requests for the inclusion of an emergency item in the Assembly agenda ................................................................................................... 25-28 • Resolution: The institutional and security situation in Mali ................................................... 29 Québec City Declaration on Citizenship, identity and linguistic and cultural diversity in a globalized world ....................................................................................................... 31 Plan of Action for Gender-sensitive Parliaments ......................................................................... 36 Report of the IPU Committee on United Nations Affairs ............................................................. 44 2 Inter-Parliamentary Union – 127th Assembly REPORTS, DECISIONS, RESOLUTIONS AND OTHER TEXTS OF THE GOVERNING COUNCIL AND EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE OF THE INTER-PARLIAMENTARY UNION Reports, decisions and other texts • Budget of the IPU for 2013 ............................................................................................. 48 • Scale of contributions for 2013 ........................................................................................ 49 • Cooperation with the United Nations system: List of activities undertaken by the IPU between March and October 2012 .................................................................................. 53 • New format for IPU Assemblies, the functioning of the Standing Committees and their bureaux, and the status of the IPU Committee on United Nations Affairs ............................ 56 • Rules and practices of the IPU Advisory Group on HIV/AIDS and Maternal, Newborn and Child Health ................................................................................................................... 58 • Parliamentary Conference on the WTO: A decade-long success story .................................. 60 • Rules of the Committee on Middle East Questions ............................................................. 64 • Statement on the IPU visa policy ...................................................................................... 66 • Code of Conduct for IPU Personnel & Fraud and Corruption Prevention and Control Policy . 67 • Analysis of statutory provisions relating to IPU membership ................................................ 78 Future meetings • Future meetings and other activities ................................................................................. 81 • Agenda of the 128th Assembly ......................................................................................... 83 • List of international organizations and other bodies invited to follow the work of the 128th Assembly as observers ...................................................................... 84 Resolutions concerning the human rights of parliamentarians • Mr. Ngarleji Yorongar, Chad ............................................................................................ 86 • Mr. Gali Ngothe Gatta, Chad ........................................................................................... 88 • Mr. Pierre Jacques Chalupa, Democratic Republic of the Congo ......................................... 89 • Twenty-nine parliamentarians, of the Democratic Republic of the Congo ............................ 93 • Mr. Eugène Diomi Ndongala, Democratic Republic of the Congo ....................................... 97 • Mr. Javier Enrique Cáceres Leal, Colombia ........................................................................ 100 • Mr. Matar Ebrahim Matar and Mr. Jawad Fairuz