1921
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The IPU Headquarters is permanently established in Geneva.
The precursor to the United Nations, The League of Nations is established some 30 years after the IPU.
First delegations, from Russia and Turkey, invited by BGIPU, visit Westminster. Lunch with the Russian delegation was attended by Prime Minister Asquith.
The IPU established with an elected Executive Committee of 5 Members and a paid Secretary General.
The British Group of the IPU adopts for itself a Latin motto ‘Pro Patria per Orbis Concordium’ (for the country through world harmony).
IPU helps establish the Permanent Court of Arbitration.
IPU helps establish the Permanent Court of Arbitration.
30th June 1889: The founding act of the Inter-Parliamentary Conference and therefore, indirectly, of the Union is signed. This provided the origins for today’s form of institutionalised multilateral co-operation and advocated the establishment of corresponding institutions at the inter-governmental level – which eventually came into being as the United Nations.…
Summer: Randal Cremer and Frederic Passy meet in Paris to discuss inter-parliamentary cooperation to promote peace.
Randal Cremer presents to the US President a resolution signed by 234 MPs urging America to sign a Treaty with Britain to agree that disputes between them which could not be settled by diplomacy should always go to arbitration.
