TABLE OF CONTENTS Page(s) Meetings and other activities 141st Assembly 1. Inaugural ceremony .............................................................................................................. 4 2. Participation ......................................................................................................................... 5 3. Choice of an emergency item .............................................................................................. 6 4. Debates and decisions of the Assembly and its Standing Committees ............................... 6 5. Concluding sitting of the Assembly ..................................................................................... 11 205th session of the Governing Council 1. Election of the President of the 141st IPU Assembly ............................................................ 13 2. Financial situation ................................................................................................................ 13 3. 2020 draft consolidated budget ........................................................................................... 13 4. Report of the IPU President ................................................................................................. 14 5. Report of the IPU Secretary General on the activities of the IPU since the 204thsession of the Governing Council ................................................................................ 14 6. Cooperation with the United Nations system ....................................................................... 14 7. Membership of the IPU and Observer status ...................................................................... 15 8. Strengthening the work of the IPU ....................................................................................... 15 9. Amendments to the IPU Statutes and Rules ....................................................................... 15 10. Recent specialized meetings ............................................................................................... 16 11. Reports of plenary bodies and specialized committees ...................................................... 16 12. Future inter-parliamentary meetings ................................................................................... 16 13. Elections to the Executive Committee .................................................................................. 17 14. Elections to the Preparatory Committee of the Fifth World Conference of Speakers of Parliament ........................................................................................................ 17 282nd session of the Executive Committee 1. Debates and decisions ........................................................................................................ 17 2. Sub-Committee on Finance ................................................................................................. 19 3. Questions relating to the IPU Secretariat ............................................................................. 19 Forum and Bureau of Women Parliamentarians .................................................................... 19 Forum and Board of the Forum of Young Parliamentarians of the IPU ................................. 20 Subsidiary bodies of the Governing Council 1. Committee on the Human Rights of Parliamentarians ........................................................ 21 2. Committee on Middle East Questions ................................................................................. 21 3. Committee to Promote Respect for International Humanitarian Law .................................. 21 4. Gender Partnership Group .................................................................................................. 23 Inter-Parliamentary Union – 141st Assembly 5. Advisory Group on Health ................................................................................................... 24 6. Group of Facilitators for Cyprus ........................................................................................... 24 7. High-Level Advisory Group on Countering Terrorism and Violent Extremism (HLAG) ....... 25 Other events 1. Speakers’ dialogue on governance ..................................................................................... 25 2. Meeting of the Presidents of the Geopolitical Groups and the Presidents of the Standing Committees .................................................................................................... 26 3. Open Session of the Committee to Promote Respect for International Humanitarian Law – Placing humanity first: The Geneva Conventions – Protecting people in armed conflict for 70 years ................................................................... 27 4. Parity debate #NotInMyParliament: National and regional strategies .................................. 27 5. Workshop Leaving no one behind in political representation: Gender and youth quotas ...................................................................................................... 28 6. Workshop United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child: 30 years on, achievements and challenges .............................................................................................. 29 7. Workshop on SDG 8: Achieving full and productive employment and decent work for all: The economic challenge of our time ................................................................. 29 8. Side event Reaching the hard-to-reach: How to make UHC a reality for all? ....................... 30 9. Preliminary consultation on the 2021 Global Parliamentary Report: Parliament in a changing world ............................................................................................ 31 10. Exhibitions ............................................................................................................................ 32 11. Future Policy Award ceremony ............................................................................................ 32 12. Field visit to Belgrade care homes for children .................................................................... 32 13. Field visit of the IPU Advisory Group on Health to the Institute for Student’s Health in Belgrade ................................................................................................ 32 14. Launch of the handbook Eliminating forced labour .............................................................. 33 Elections, appointments and membership of the Inter-Parliamentary Union Elections and appointments 1. Executive Committee .......................................................................................................... 33 2. Sub-Committee on Finance ................................................................................................. 33 3. Preparatory Committee for the Fifth World Conference of Speakers of Parliament ........... 34 4. Bureau of Women Parliamentarians ................................................................................... 34 5. Board of the Forum of Young Parliamentarians .................................................................. 34 6. Committee on the Human Rights of Parliamentarians ........................................................ 34 7. Committee on Middle East Questions ................................................................................. 35 8. Committee to Promote Respect for International Humanitarian Law .................................. 35 9. High-Level Advisory Group on Countering Terrorism and Violent Extremism (HLAG) ....... 35 10. Group of Facilitators for Cyprus ........................................................................................... 35 11. Internal Auditors for the 2020 accounts ............................................................................... 35 12. Bureaux of the Standing Committees ................................................................................. 35 13. Rapporteurs to the 143rd Assembly ..................................................................................... 36 Media and communications .................................................................................................... 37 Membership of the Inter-Parliamentary Union ........................................................................ 39 Agenda, resolutions and other texts of the 141st Assembly of the Inter-Parliamentary Union Agenda .................................................................................................................................... 40 Belgrade Declaration on Strengthening international law: Parliamentary roles and mechanisms, and the contribution of regional cooperation .................................................... 41 Declaration to mark the 30th anniversary of the Convention on the Rights of the Child ........ 44 2 Inter-Parliamentary Union – 141st Assembly Resolution Achieving universal health coverage by 2030: The role of parliaments in ensuring the right to health ...................................................................................... 45 Emergency item Results of the roll-call vote on the requests for the inclusion of an emergency item in the agenda of the Assembly ............................................................................. 50-53 Resolution: Addressing climate change ...................................................................... 54 Reports of the Standing Committees Report of the Standing Committee on