8 October 2017: Ian Liddell-Grainger MP concluded the UK’s four-year term on the IPU Executive Committee as its Vice-President at the end of the 137th IPU Assembly in St Petersberg. Pictured here with the outgoing IPU President, Hon Saber H. Chowdhury MP of Bangladesh, and French Senator Robert del Picchia,…
4 April 2017: Responding to a joint emergency item proposed by the United Kingdom, Kenya and Belgium, IPU members adopted at the 136th Assembly in Dhaka a resolution calling upon the international community to take immediate action to prevent a major global humanitarian crisis created by famine affecting parts of…
6 March 2017: The BGIPU provided CHF 30,000 to the IPU’s Parliamentary Solidarity Fund as an extra-budgetary contribution encouraging non-member parliaments to participate in IPU work and consider joining the organisation.
21 July 2016: IPU SG Martin Chungong and UN SG Ban Ki Moon sign a new UN-IPU cooperation agreement at UN Headquarters in New York marking a significant step forward in relations between both organisations.
28th April 2016: Agreement between the IPU and the National Parliament of Bangladesh on convening the 136th IPU Assembly in Dhaka in April 2017 was signed by The Hon Dr Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury, the Bangladesh Speaker, and the IPU Secretary General, Mr Martin Chungong, in the River Room of the…
5th December 2015: The IPU and the French Parliament organized a Parliamentary Meeting in conjunction with the Climate Change Conference in Paris. The Meeting was held with a view to providing parliamentarians with an opportunity to obtain first-hand information on the main issues and approaches of COP21/CMP11.
28th March: IPU membership adopts the Hanoi Declaration calling for recognition of the key role to be played by parliaments in holding the world’s governments to account in meeting the proposed post-2015 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) during 132nd IPU Assembly in Hanoi, Vietnam.
2nd September: Fourth World Conference of Speakers, attended by Speakers from both Houses of the UK Parliament, concludes in the UN General Assembly Chamber in New York with key focus on peace, democracy and development and by agreeing key inputs for the world leaders’ summit to conclude the UN’s Sustainable…
16th October 2014: Mr Saber Hossain Chowdhury MP elected during the 131st IPU Assembly in Geneva to a three year term as President of the IPU. With re-admission of two previous members, the IPU reaches an all-time high of 166 member parliaments.
10th October: UK Member of the House of Commons, Chloe Smith MP, joins other counterparts in Geneva to participate in IPU’s First Global Conference of Young Parliamentarians.
