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What We Do?

Principal Activities

The principal activities for members are:-

  • IPU Assemblies
    Assemblies are organised each year by the Geneva Secretariat in Geneva and in member countries all over the world. In addition a number of specialised or regional meetings are held as well as regular activities organised mainly in conjunction with the United Nations.
  • Working Visits Abroad
    The British Group organises three types of visit for members: formal exchanges with other IPU national groups, short fact-finding missions and occasional election observing missions.
  • Visits to Westminster
    The British Group arranges formal exchanges with other national groups and facilitates visits by Friendship Groups and distinguished visitors. Recent examples include visits to Westminster by parliamentarians from Ukraine and Croatia.
Participation in British Group Activities

British Group activities are advertised in the All-Party Notice and applicants are selected to participate by the Executive Committee. In the case of formal parliamentary exchanges, The Speaker approves the final selection.

All Party Groups

The British Group also supports and promotes the activites of affliliated all-party groups with an interest in fostering relations with individual countries.

Latest News
Outward Delegation to Senegal, 27 September to 3 October 2009>>
Fourth Conference for Members of Parliamentary Committees on the Status of Women, Geneva, 28 to 29 September 2009>>
Report on election observing in Mongolia, 18 to 21 September 2009>>
Parliamentary Delegation from The Republic of The Philippines, 6 to 10 July 2009>>
Outward Delegation to Nepal, 15 to 20 February 2009 >>
Parliamentary Conference on the Global Economic Crisis, Geneva, 7 to 8 May 2009>>
Parliamentary meeting on the occasion of the 53rd session of the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women, New York, March 2009>>
Outward Delegation to Serbia, 18 to 20 February 2009>>
Outward Delegation to Montenegro, 15 to 18 February 2009>>
Parliamentary delegation from the United Arab Emirates, 26 to 28 January 2009>>
Delegation to Tirana, Albania 14 to 15 December 2008>>
Parliamentary Delegation from Uruguay, 17 to 21 November 2008>>
Parliamentary Delegation to Kyrgyzstan
14 to 19 Sept 2008>>
2008 Session of the Parliamentary Conference on the WTO, Geneva
11 to 12 Sept 2008>>
Parliamentary Delegation to Ukraine
7 to 12 Sept 2008>>
IPU-UN forum on The role of national and local stakeholders in contributing to aid quality and effectiveness, Rome
12 to 13 June 2008>>