Bangladesh set to host 136th IPU assembly

Bangladesh is set to roll out the red carpet as parliamentarians from across the globe join the 136 assembly of International Parliamentary Union (IPU), the century-old organisation of world's legislators, in April this year, reports BSS. Officials familiar with the process said IPU chose Bangladesh to be the host of its most crucial event for the first time, three years after it elected for the Bangladeshi lawmaker Saber Chowdhury as the president of the global parliamentarians' forum.
The IPU Assembly, which was earlier called Inter-Parliamentary Conference, is the principal statutory body that expresses the views of the global forum on political issues bringing together parliamentarians to study international problems and make recommendations for action.
"We are expecting over 1,300 representatives including parliament speakers, deputy speakers and parliament members of 171 countries to attend the assembly," said additional secretary of Bangladesh's Parliament Secretariat Golam Mostafa said.
He said preparedness was afoot to hold the five-day IPU assembly from April 1 in Bangladesh capital amid foolproof security arrangements for "one of the biggest international events Bangladesh hosted so far".
According to Mostafa apart from IPU countries, representatives from United Nations, IPU associated bodies and different international agencies will join the assembly as delegates' registration is underway in full-swing.
Apart from delegates, he said, as many as 300 journalists from home and abroad are expected to cover the programme to be opened by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina at the South Plaza of Jatiya Sangsad.
Other programmes of the assembly will be held in five venues of Bangabanadhu International Conference Centre (BICC) while the delegates would be housed in 15 hotels in the city.
Officials said a modern makeshift media centre equipped with computers, laptops, high-speed internet bandwidth and adequate manpower would be set up at BICC for the local and foreign newsmen so they could smoothly send their news feed.
"An IPU spokesperson will brief media at the end of the day's programme at the media centre," an official related to the arrangement said.

Bangladesh set to host 136th IPU assembly

Bangladesh is set to roll out the red carpet as parliamentarians from across the globe join the 136 assembly of International Parliamentary Union (IPU), the century-old organisation of worlds legislators, in April this year, reports BSS. Officials familiar with the process said IPU chose Bangladesh to be the host of its most crucial event for the first time, three years after it elected for the Bangladeshi lawmaker Saber Chowdhury as the president of the global parliamentarians forum. The IPU Assembly, which was earlier called Inter-Parliamentary Conference, is the principal statutory body that expresses the views of the global forum on political issues bringing together parliamentarians to study international problems and make recommendations for action. We are expecting over 1,300 representatives including parliament speakers, deputy speakers and parliament members of 171 countries to attend the assembly, said additional secretary of Bangladeshs Parliament Secretariat Golam Mostafa said. He said preparedness was afoot to hold the five-day IPU assembly from April 1 in Bangladesh capital amid foolproof security arrangements for one of the biggest international events Bangladesh hosted so far. According to Mostafa apart from IPU countries, representatives from United Nations, IPU associated bodies and different international agencies will join the assembly as delegates registration is underway in full-swing. Apart from delegates, he said, as many as 300 journalists from home and abroad are expected to cover the programme to be opened by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina at the South Plaza of Jatiya Sangsad. Other programmes of the assembly will be held in five venues of Bangabanadhu International Conference Centre (BICC) while the delegates would be housed in 15 hotels in the city. Officials said a modern makeshift media centre equipped with computers, laptops, high-speed internet bandwidth and adequate manpower would be set up at BICC for the local and foreign newsmen so they could smoothly send their news feed. An IPU spokesperson will brief media at the end of the days programme at the media centre, an official related to the arrangement said.