Luanda – Angola’s National Assembly Speaker, Carolina Cerqueira, discussed Wednesday with a delegation of the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) the role of parliamentary diplomacy in the resolution of conflicts and of women in the political process.
Led by the Director of International Relations, Anda Filip, the IPU delegation is in Angola at the invitation of the National Assembly, which offered to host the statutory meeting and the Plenary Assembly of the IPU.
Anda Filip said she was confident about the success of the event to take place in the country, taking into account the technical and human conditions that the National Assembly of Angola has to host events of international scale.
The politician explained that the final decision on the date of the event is up to the Angolan government, plus the governing and executive boards of the IPU, adding that the delegation he leads will return with a "very" positive impression of what it observed in Angola.
The Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU), founded on June 30, 1889 by Frédéric Passy and William Randal Cremer, is the international organization of parliaments.
IPU is the only organization that represents the legislative branch of governments worldwide. Unlike other international organizations, it is not an intergovernmental organization but an institution for the promotion of cooperation among parliaments.
It works under the United Nations system, and its fundamental purpose is to achieve peace, cooperation among peoples, and the consolidation of representative institutions through political dialogue.
It is regarded as the pioneering international political organization, with 180 affiliated national parliaments and 12 associated regional parliamentary assemblies.
Today, the IPU is the main parliamentary interlocutor at the United Nations and brings the voice of parliaments to the decision-making processes in this global body by regularly presenting its resolutions in the General Assembly, making statements, participating in debates and organizing parliamentary meetings on the main issues on the UN agenda.
In recognition of this role, in 2002 the United Nations granted the IPU permanent observer status.
