CASE No - Inter-Parliamentary Union

- 23 - CL/183/SR.1
(b)
Situation of certain Members
(CL/183/3(b)-P.2)
The President said that during the first sitting of the current session, he had informed the
Governing Council that the Parliaments of Kyrgyzstan and Nicaragua were defaulting in their
payments to the IPU. Since that time, a payment had been received from the Parliament of
Nicaragua, which although it remained in arrears, was no longer liable for suspension.
Document CL/183/3(b)-P.2 contained a decision to suspend the Parliament of Kyrgyzstan. The
Secretariat had been informed that Kyrgyzstan intended to pay its dues forthwith, and he
therefore suggested that the decision to suspend its membership should be withheld. If no
payment was received, the decision on Kyrgyzstan’s suspension would come into force by the
end of 2008.
It was so decided.
Item 8 of the agenda
COOPERATION WITH THE UNITED NATIONS SYSTEM
(CL/183/8-R.1, 8-P.1 and P.2)
The President announced that document CL/183/8-R.1 contained a list of activities that
had been undertaken in cooperation with the United Nations over the past six months. It was
a comprehensive and diverse list, which testified to the remarkable expansion of the work that
the IPU conducted in cooperation with the United Nations. The Governing Council also had
before it a draft resolution on cooperation between the United Nations and the IPU
(CL/183/8-P.1). Once that resolution was adopted, it was important that Members should
lobby their respective governments so that their Ambassadors in New York received the
necessary instructions to support the resolution. All documents adopted by the General
Assembly of the United Nations were discussed in diplomatic missions. Those missions should
also be made aware of the work of the IPU. Members of the IPU must report back to their
parliaments on the work done during statutory assemblies, in order to create a link between
the meetings of the IPU and the work of parliaments at the national level.
The Secretary General said that, on the question of cooperation with the United Nations
system, the Governing Council had before it a list of activities undertaken between 19 April
and 12 October 2008, which included meetings in New York, regional meetings and activities
with United Nations bodies in national parliaments. It focussed primarily on work on
development, and it also referred to work conducted in cooperation with specialized agencies
of the United Nations, such as the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the
Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women, the United Nations
Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), and others. One of the many activities of
the IPU was to promote the attainment of the MDGs, and during its 118 th Assembly in Cape
Town, South Africa, in April 2008 the IPU had undertaken an activity in cooperation with the
Countdown to 2015 Maternal, Newborn and Child Survival initiative. The draft resolution on
cooperation with the United Nations built on the recommendations of the United Nations
Secretary-General, from his report to the General Assembly. The draft resolution pointed to
further possibilities for strengthening cooperation between the two organizations, since much
could be done to build a mutually reinforcing and strategic partnership. It was also important
that the Member States of the United Nations should place greater focus on the relationship
between their national parliaments and the United Nations. The IPU would suggest that the