A BGIPU delegation led by Anneliese Dodds MP and including Sir John Whittingdale OBE MP, visited Chișinău from 12 to 15 May 2025. This visit came at a critically important time for Moldova. Nationally, it hosts the highest number of Ukrainian refugees per capita of any country, and shares a substantial border with Ukraine (including […]
BGIPU had the pleasure of hosting a delegation from the Parliament of the Republic of Albania from Monday 24 February to Tuesday 25 February. The delegation was led by Mr Lavdrim Krashi, Chair of the Albania-UK Friendship group and was comprised of Jorida Tabaku, Pandeli Majko, Pranvera Resulaj and Bledjon Nallbati. They were accompanied by […]
In the lead-up to Human Rights Day, the IPU continue to express grave concerns over the ever growing number of human rights violations against parliamentarians worldwide. The number of cases brought before the IPU Committee on the Human Rights of Parliamentarians has more than tripled in the last decade, from 311 in 2014 to 956 […]
I was proud to lead the first bilateral delegation to Hungary in 10 years, from the 25-27 November 2024, especially in light of our Prime Minister, Sir Keir Starmer, meeting with Prime Minister Orban at the European Political Community summit in Budapest just a couple of weeks earlier. The delegation was small but very […]
From Monday 18 November to Wednesday 20 November BGIPU hosted a delegation from the Parliament of the Republic of Moldova led by Radu Marian MP, Chair of the Friendship Group with the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. He was joined by Tatiana Cunetchi MP, Chair of the Committee on Public Finance Oversight, […]
The BGIPU welcomed a delegation from the Rada from 11-14 November 2024. The delegation was led by Lesia Vasylenko (Holos Party), Chair of the friendship group, also in the group were members of the Servant of the People party (Governing party) Dmytro Natalukha (Co-Chair of friendship group), Rostyslav Titsyk, Yerhor Cherniev, Lesia Zaburanna, a fellow […]
At its AGM on 13 November 2024 chaired by the Speaker of the House of Commons, Rt Hon Sir Lindsay Hoyle MP, BGIPU members comprising members of both the House of Commons and the House of Lords in UK Parliament elected new BGIPU Officers and Executive Committee members for 2024/25 based on nominations received in […]
Speech delivered by Dionysia Avgerinopoulou, IPU Vice-President, 12+ Group, at the Third Parliamentary Summit of the International Crimea Platform on 24 October 2024 in Riga, Latvia. “Your Excellencies, Speakers of Parliament, Honourable parliamentarians and colleagues, I am very honoured to address you today in my capacity as Vice-President of the Inter-Parliamentary Union, the global organization […]
A small but perfectly formed delegation of myself, John Whittingdale MP, Baroness Ros Scott, John Slinger MP and Joe Perry (IPU) travelled to Latvia between Sunday 15 and Wednesday 18 September for a short but intensive programme. That this was only the second outward IPU delegation of the new Parliament underlines the point made many […]
This first BGIPU outward visit of the new Parliament saw a small, balanced group of four parliamentarians plus the wonderful Mathilde Ollivo of the BGIPU travel to Berlin for a series of high-level meetings at the Bundestag as well as visits to the Bundesrat, British Embassy and British Council. Given that the Prime Minister and […]
