Maltese MPs to attend Berlin Conferences

A parliamentary delegation composed of the Hon Helen D'Amato, MP and the Hon George Vella, MP will be attending the 102nd Inter-Parliamentary Union Conference to be held in Berlin, Germany, between the 10th and 16th October, 1999.

The agenda includes:

a general debate on the political, economic and social situation in the world;

the contribution of parliaments to ensuring respect for and promoting international humanitarian law on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the Geneva Conventions; and

the need to revise the current global financial and economic model.

Concurrently, the XVth meeting of representatives of the parties to the CSCM process, which the parliamentary delegation will also attend, will be held in the same venue. During this meeting there will be:

a brief analysis of parliamentary, governmental and non-governmental initiatives with regard to security and co-operation in the Mediterranean, and action by the Inter-Parliamentary Union in this field; and

a briefing on the preparations for the IIIrd Inter-Parliamentary Conference on Security and Cooperation in the Mediterranean to be held in Marseilles, France, from 30 March to 3 April 2000.

During the Conference the Council of the Inter-Parliamentary Union will elect a new President to replace Mr Miguel Angel Martinez, who resigned following his election to the European Parliament.