The Speaker of the House of Commons, the Rt Hon John Bercow MP, chaired the Annual General Meeting of the British Group of the IPU in the Attlee Suite in Portcullis House on 25 November 2009.

Pictured with him at the meeting are from left to right: Sir Nicholas Winterton DL MP, Treasurer of BGIPU, Kenneth Courtenay, General Secretary, Dr Roger Berry MP, Chair of BGIPU, Ivan Lewis, Minister of State, Foreign and Commonwealth Office, and David Lidington, Shadow Minister for the FCO.

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The IPU Review informative articles on the activities of the British Group of the IPU. The front page article is about the United Nations Convention on Disabilities which Britain ratified recently.

IPU Review: Summer 2009

Other articles in this issue include: Women’s rights conference in New York Georgia’s struggle to bloom after the Rose Revolution Reports on the British Group’s international seminar on disabilities – held in London a few weeks before the British Government ratified the UN Convention on Disabilities Nepal keeps its world image despite political turmoil Bolivia at the crossroads Montenegro and Serbia look to the EU Fair play in getting a global recovery Philippines climate change threat

Contributors to this issue include: Dr Roger Berry MP, Lord Rix, Fiona Mactaggart MP, Baroness Uddin, Bruce George MP, the Earl of Sandwich, Jeremy Corbyn MP, Diane Abbott MP, David Chaytor MP and Mark Hendrick MP