CPA conference sets tone for partnerships for global peace

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CPA conference sets tone for partnerships for global peace

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The 49th Conference of the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association (CPA) concluded Saturday in Dhaka setting tone for partnerships for global peace and prosperity in democratic pursuits toward attaining millennium development goal.

At the end of the conference, CPA leaders headed by current CPA president, Bangladeshi Speaker Jamir Uddin Sircar, told a press briefing that in between the 49th and the next conference, the member countries of the CPA are expected to work and share experience in favor of increasing global market access, free movement of manpower and increase of global assistance to the deserving members.

The parliamentarians advocated for joint measures to link governments, parliaments, intergovernmental agencies and civil society groups to help preserve peace, provide an environment conducive to economic and social development and reinforce the commitment to democratic governance.

Participants in the last plenary of the 49th CPA conference Saturday observed that the international support strategy should not override the national agenda of development and national sovereignty.

The speakers at the plenary felt that in the global scenario, the promotion of the multilateralism had been overridden by the bilateralism and some unilateralism as in many international events like Iraq aggression disrespecting the United Nations veto.

The CPA conference, the biggest ever hosted by Bangladesh, began on Oct. 4 with the working party meeting of the small countries providing a lead as to how can small states strengthen their democracies.

Over 600 delegates and observers from 47 commonwealth member countries attended the conference.

The ceremonial inauguration of the conference was held here on Tuesday last when Bangladesh Prime Minister Begum Khaleda Zia declared the conference open with a call for closer relationship among the parliamentarians to voice peoples' opinion more strongly in the decision making process both at the national and global plank.

The CPA elected Peter Milliken, MP, speaker of the House of Commons of Canada , as the new president, as the 50th CPA conference will be held next year in Canada.

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