Mur Lura
MALTESE MPs TO ATTEND CPA CONFERENCES
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29/08/2001
29/08/2001
| The Hon. Dr. Anthony Abela, M.P., Leader of the Malta | Delegation to the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association (CPA), the Hon. Frederick Azzopardi M.P. and the Hon. Joe Mizzi M.P. will be attending the 27th CPA Conference for Small Countries and the 47th CPA Conference, to be held both in Australia between the 4th and 7th September and the 8th and 14th September respectively. |
| The Hon. Mario Galea M.P., Member of the Executive | Committee of the CPA representing the British Isles and Mediterranean Region will also be attending the conference and the meeting of the CPA Executive Committee which will be held in Darwin. Mr Galea will also be chairing the Regional Meeting of the British Islands and the Mediterranean Region. |
| More than 500 Parliamentarians and parliamentary | officials will be meeting in Australia to discuss ways to raise the public perception of Parliaments and their Members. |
| A delegation from our Parliament will participate in | these discussions with colleagues from approximately 160 other Parliaments and Legislatures, as the 47th Commonwealth Parliamentary Conference is convened in Melbourne and Canberra. |
| The conference, which will be presided over by the | current President of the CPA, Sen. The Hon. Margaret Reid, President of the Australian Senate, will challenge Members to re-assess the profession of politics, to find better ways to conduct public business. |
| This Conference is expected to appoint Mr Marshall | from New Zealand, who will succeed Mr Arthur Donahoe as Secretary General of the CPA. |
| The formal programme will begin in Melbourne with the | official opening by Australian Prime Minister Hon. John Howard, this year’s Vice-Patron for the CPA. |
| While participants from Parliaments and Legislatures | serving poplulations in excess of 400,000 people are visiting an Australian state, the 21st Commonwealth Parliamentary Conference of Members from Small Countries will be held for two days in Darwin, Northern Territory, where the CPA Executive Committee will also meet. |
| Discussions at the plenary conference will focus | specifically on: strengthening Parliament’s oversight role; alleviating poverty; making Parliaments more gender-sensitive; assisting Parliamentarians to take advantage of information and communications technology and to raise public knowledge about the role of the politician; combatting international trafficking of people, and regulating scientific advances. |
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