VIEW FROM THE CHAIR
VIEW FROM THE CHAIR
View from the Chairperson of the CPA Executive Committee
Chairperson’s Update to the Executive Committee Meeting held in April 2015 in Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia.
“Allow me to begin by welcoming all the esteemed members of the Executive Committee of the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association (CPA) to the Executive Committee Meeting at Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia. I would like convey my heartfelt thanks to the host Branch, CPA Malaysia, for their warm hospitality to us in the beautiful, serene resort, Kota Kinabalu.
This is my second meeting of Executive Committee after my election to the position of Chairperson. The first meeting was held on 9 October 2014 in Cameroon, just after the election. We are already in the midst of the Executive Committee meeting and are going through very important agendas.
Dr Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury, MP, Chairperson of the CPA Executive Committee and Speaker of the Bangladesh Parliament.
I would like to express my sincere gratitude to you for your kind support extended to me as the Chairperson and to the team at the CPA Secretariat in taking forward the work of the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association (CPA).
It is indeed a great pleasure for me to give you an update of the ongoing work of the CPA since October 2014. The last six months have been a very busy time for CPA. During this time, I had the opportunity to take part in a number of CPA events organized by different Branches across the Commonwealth regions. I attended the CPA Workshop on Parliamentary Agriculture
“Promoting the ‘Young Commonwealth’ is the theme of the Commonwealth. CPA is working to facilitate young parliamentarians to give young people a platform to raise a range of issues that impact their lives.”
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Committees of India, Asia and South East Asia held in Chandigarh, Punjab in October 2014. It was a great opportunity to take part in the CPA UK Branch Conference on ‘Human Rights in Modern Day Commonwealth: Magna Carta to Commonwealth Charter’ in London in February 2015. I also went to the British Islands and Mediterranean Region (BIMR) Commonwealth Women Parliamentarians Conference in Gibraltar in February 2015. I was invited by the Royal Commonwealth Society to speak at Westminster Abbey on Commonwealth Observance Day on 9 March 2015 in the presence of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II and members of the Royal Family. The CPA Bangladesh Branch also hosted the CPA Parliamentarians of South Asia Conference on Emerging Economies of South Asia in November 2014 in Dhaka.
Let me begin by sharing a vision for CPA. CPA,
being a unique platform of Parliamentarians of Commonwealth countries, has great potential to effectuate innovative changes in addressing the common concern of ensuring the welfare of the people.
It is therefore, important for us to ascertain where we would like to see CPA in the next three years. It is imperative to pin point with objective precision and the utmost clarity as to what CPA wants to achieve over this tenure and lay down a foundation for the years beyond. It is for the Executive Committee to steer the way ahead by putting together a forward looking, relevant plan linked to the present objectives and activities of CPA. In doing so it is essential to have a focused approach. It is necessary to identify a couple of issues which can be taken forward by adopting innovative ideas and approaches. Promoting the ‘Young Commonwealth’ is the theme of the Commonwealth. CPA is working to facilitate young parliamentarians to give young people a platform to raise a range of issues that impact their lives. In our endeavour to pursue this goal, the Executive Committee can find new ways of empowering the young to shape their future. We can devise modes for resource mobilization in member countries for providing the best
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