TABLE OF CONTENTS Page MEETINGS 116th Assembly of the Inter-Parliamentary Union 1. Inaugural ceremony ...................................................................................................... 5 2. Participation ................................................................................................................ 5 3. Choice of an emergency item ........................................................................................ 6 4. Debates and decisions of the Assembly and its Standing Committees .................................. 6 180th Session of the Governing Council 1. Membership of the Inter-Parliamentary Union .................................................................. 9 2. Financial results for 2006 ............................................................................................... 9 3. Financial situation ......................................................................................................... 10 4. Cooperation with the United Nations system ................................................................... 10 5. IPU activities to strengthen parliaments and democracy ..................................................... 10 6. Consolidation of IPU reform .......................................................................................... 11 7. Recent specialized conferences and meetings .................................................................. 11 8. Reports of plenary bodies and specialized committees ....................................................... 11 9. Future inter-parliamentary meetings ................................................................................ 11 248th Session of the Executive Committee ............................................................................... 12 Meeting and Coordinating Committee of Women Parliamentarians ......................................... 13 Subsidiary bodies and Committees 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. Group of Facilitators for Cyprus ...................................................................................... 15 5. Gender Partnership Group ............................................................................................. 16 Other events 1. Panel discussion on Violence against children: Making schools safe for children ....................... 17 2. Panel discussion on Global warming: Ten years after Kyoto .................................................. 17 3. Special event on citizenship and statelessness .................................................................. 18 Inter-Parliamentary Union - 116th Assembly Page Other activities 1. Launch of a new Handbook for parliamentarians: Eliminating violence against children ............. 18 2. Launch of a new IPU publication entitled Missing pieces: A guide for reducing gun violence through parliamentary action ............................................ 18 3. UNICEF-IPU field trip to Lombok, Indonesia, to visit child protection projects ....................... 18 4. Exhibition: The plight of imprisoned parliamentarians-elect in Myanmar .................................. 19 ELECTIONS, APPOINTMENTS AND MEMBERSHIP OF THE INTER-PARLIAMENTARY UNION Elections and appointments 1. Office of President of the 116th Assembly of the Inter-Parliamentary Union ........................... 19 2. Executive Committee .................................................................................................... 19 3. Bureaux of the Standing Committees ............................................................................... 19 4. Rapporteurs of the Standing Committees to the 118th Assembly .......................................... 20 5. Committee on the Human Rights of Parliamentarians ........................................................ 20 6. Committee on Middle East Questions .............................................................................. 20 7. Group of Facilitators for Cyprus ....................................................................................... 20 8. Coordinating Committee of the Meeting of Women Parliamentarians ................................... 20 Membership of the Inter-Parliamentary Union ........................................................................ 21 AGENDA, RESOLUTIONS AND DECISIONS OF THE 116th ASSEMBLY OF THE INTER-PARLIAMENTARY UNION Agenda ................................................................................................................................ 22 Overall theme Global warming: Ten years after Kyoto Subject items · Resolution: Ensuring respect for and peaceful co-existence between all religious communities and beliefs in a globalized world ............................................................. 23 · Resolution: Job creation and employment security in the era of globalization ................... 28 · Resolution: Promoting diversity and equal rights for all through universal democratic and electoral standards ............................................................................ 35 Emergency item · Resolution: International cooperation to combat terrorism, its root causes and its financing, including cross-border funding ................................................................ 38 REPORTS, DECISIONS, RESOLUTIONS AND OTHER TEXTS Reports, decisions and recommendations · Declaration of the President of the Assembly on climate change .................................. 42 · Cooperation with the United Nations system: List of activities from 16 October 2006 to 29 April 2007 .................................................................................................... 42 · Message from the new Secretary-General of the United Nations .................................. 45 · Declaration of the Annual Session of the Parliamentary Conference on the WTO ........................................................................................ 46 · Work programme for the second Assembly of the year ............................................... 48 · Composition, mandate and working methods of the Committee on United Nations Affairs ............................................................................................ 50 2 Inter-Parliamentary Union - 116th Assembly Page Future meetings · Future meetings and other activities ......................................................................... 53 · Subject items for the 118th Assembly ........................................................................ 55 · List of international organizations and other bodies invited to follow the work of the 117th Assembly as observers ............................................................. 56 Resolutions concerning the Human Rights of Parliamentarians · Mr. Shah AMS Kibria, of Bangladesh .......................................................................... 58 — Sheik Hasina, of Bangladesh ................................................................................... 59 — Mr. Victor Gonchar, of Belarus ................................................................................ 60 — Mr. S. Mfayokurera, Mr. I. Ndikumana, Mr. G. Gahungu, Ms. L. Ntamutumba, Mr. P. Sirahenda and Mr. G. Gisabwamana, of Burundi ................................................ 61 — Mr. Norbert Ndihokubwayo, of Burundi .................................................................... 62 — Mr. Pedro Nel Jiménez Obando, Mr. Leonardo Posada Pedraza, . Mr. Octavio Vargas Cuéllar, Mr. Pedro Luis Valencia Giraldo, Mr. Bernardo Jaramillo Ossa and Mr. Manuel Cepeda Vargas, of Colombia ............................................................ 64 — Mr. Hernán Motta Motta, of Colombia ...................................................................... 65 — Ms. Piedad Córdoba, of Colombia ............................................................................ 67 — Mr. Oscar Lizcano, Mr. Jorge Eduardo Gechen Turbay, Mr. Luis Eladio Pérez Bonilla, Mr. Orlando Beltrán Cuéllar, Ms. Gloria Polanco de Lozada and Ms. Consuelo González de Perdomo, of Colombia ............................................... 68 — Mr. Jorge Tadeo Lozano Osorio, of Colombia ............................................................. 70 — Mr. Gustavo Petro Urrego, of Colombia ..................................................................... 70 — Mr. Jaime Ricaurte Hurtado González and Mr. Pablo Vicente Tapia Farinango, of Ecuador ...................................................... 72 — Fifty-seven parliamentarians of Ecuador ...................................................................... 73 — Eleven parliamentarians of Eritrea .............................................................................. 76 — Mr. Miguel Angel Pavón Salazar, of Honduras ............................................................. 77 — Mr. Gibran Tueni, of Lebanon .................................................................................. 78 — Mr. Anwar Ibrahim, of Malaysia ................................................................................ 79 — Mr. Zorig Sanjasuuren, of Mongolia ........................................................................... 80 — Twenty parliamentarians of Myanmar .......................................................................