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Documents related to the project "Parliamentary Assembly
at the United Nations" (UNPA)
Documents of KDUN and CEUNPA
- Basics of a UN Parliamentary Assembly, July 2009
- Call for global democratic oversight of international financial and economic institutions, April 2009
- Towards a World Parliament, CEUNPA leaflet, March 2009
- The establishment of a United Nations Parliamentary Assembly and the Inter-Parliamentary Union, CEUNPA Statement, December 2008
- The establishment of a UN Parliamentary Assembly
and the role of the Inter-Parliamentary Union, Background paper, October 2008
- A Catalyst for Global Change - A UNPA could make a decisive difference in many areas, February 2008
- Conclusions regarding policies of the Campaign for a UN Parliamentary Assembly, November 2007
- Message from Dr. Boutros Boutros-Ghali to the Campaign for the Establishment of a United Nations Parliamentary Assembly, May 2007
- Appeal for the Establishment of a Parliamentary Assembly at the United Nations, April 2007
- Frequently Asked Questions, November 2006
- Developing
International Democracy - For a Parliamentary Assembly at the United Nations.
A Strategy Paper of KDUN, pocket book version, May 2005 |
Executive
Summary
Parliamentary Documents
- Latin American Parliament, Declaration endorsing the Creation of a United Nations Parliamentary Assembly, 5-6 December 2008
- Senate of the Republic of Argentina, Declaration S-1229-08, 5 November 2008
- Pan-African Parliament, A United Nations Parliamentary Assembly, 24 October 2007
- Parliament of Canada, House of Commons, Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and International Development: Advancing Canada's Role in International Support for Democratic Development, July 2007 (see recommendation 21)
- Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, Resolution 1476 (2006) of 23 January 2006: Parliamentary dimension of the United Nations (see 11.1.1.3.)
- German Bundestag, Resolution 15/5690 of 06-15-2005: In favour of parliamentary
involvement in the United Nations system
- European Parliament, Resolution on UN reform of 06-06-2005 (para. 39)
- Open
Letter of 108 Swiss parliamentarians to UN Secretary General Kofi Annan,
02-09-2005
- German Bundestag,
Motion 15/3711 of 09-23-2004: Für eine parlamentarische
Dimension im System der Vereinten Nationen
- European
Parliament, Resolution on the relations between the European
Union and the United Nations (2003/2049 INI) of 01-29-2004
(Pt. 39 IV)
- German
Bundestag, Resolution 14/5855 of 03-28-2001: The United Nations
at the threfold of the new millennium. (German only, enclosure,
Pt. II.1.)
- Parliamentary
Assembly of the Council of Europe, Recommendation 1476 (2000)
of 09-27-2000: The United Nations at the turn of the 21st
century. (Pt 13)
- Conference
of Presiding Officers of National Parliaments, 30. August
- 1. September 2000, Declaration, The parliamentary vision
for international cooperation at the dawn of the third millennium
- Parliamentary
Assembly of the Western European Union, Document A/1685 with
Resolution 102 and Recommendation 670 of June 6, 2000
- German
Bundestag,
Resoution 14/1567 of 09-09-1999: Die Rolle der Interparlamentarischen
Union (IPU) im Zeitalter der Globalisierung
- European
Parliament, Resolution A4-0077/1999 of 03-23-1999: Resolution
on the challenges of global governance and the reform of
the United Nations. (Pt 10f.)
- European
Parliament, Resolution A3-0331/1993 of 02-08-1994: Resolution
on the role of the United Nations within the UN and the problems
of reforming the UN. (Punkt 17)
- Parliament
of Canada, House of Commons, Standing Committee on External
Affairs and International Trade, 8th Report, Spring 1993
(penultimate para.)
Documents of Civil Society
- 38th Plenary Assembly of the World Federation of United Nations Associations, resolution "A United Nations Parliamentary Assembly", 10 November 2006
- 6th Assembly of the "United Nations of the Peoples", Perugia, Italy, 8-10
September 2005: "Save the United Nations. Resolution on UN Reform" (see pt.
a)
- Common Declaration by Swiss Non-Governmental Organizations on the Swiss
UN-Policy, adopted i.a. by the General Assembly of the Swiss United Nations
Association on June 30, 2005 (see pt. 2)
- International Civil Society Forum on "Civil Society Partnerships for Democracy", Declaration, Recommendations and Plan of Action, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, September 8-9, 2003
- Millennium Forum, Final
Declaration, 05-26-2000: We the Peoples Millennium Forum, Declaration and
Agenda for Action. Strengthening the United Nations for the 21st Century.
(Part F)
- World Federalist Movement,
The Case for a United Nations Parliamentary Assembly (UNPA) by Dieter Heinrich,
1992
- CAMDUN-2: Second International
Conference On A More Democratic United Nations, Vienna, 17-19 September
1991, Concluding Statement
United Nations Documents
Other official documents
- Global Greens Second Congress 2008 - 21 Commitments for the 21st Century, Declaration (see point 12, p. 11)
- Position
Paper of the South Centre, What UN for the 21st Century?, June 2005 (p.
38/39)
- Resolution
adopted by the 53rd Congress of the Liberal International (LI), Strengthening
citizens representation on international level through an UN Parliamentary
Assembly, 14 May 2005
- Address
of Vaclav Havel, President of the Czeck Republik at the Millennium Summit
of the United Nations, New York, 8. September 2000
- Report
adopted by the XXII. Congress of the Socialist International, São
Paulo, 27-29 October 2003, Governance in a Global Society – The Social
Democratic Approach (Chapter II: Democracy, p. 39, esp. p. 47)
- Council
of the Socialist International (SI), Casablanca, Morocco, on 31 May - 1
June 2002: Resolution on participation of political parties and parliamentarians
- Report
of the Liberal International (LI), Strengthening of the United Nations,
produced by a LI Committee headed by Paavo Vayrynen, Foreign Minister of
Finland, 1992 (see p. 11/12)
Other related documents
- The Case for Global Democracy: Advocating a United Nations Parliamentary Assembly, by Piia-Noora Kauppi, Jo Leinen, Graham Watson, Gerard Onesta, September 2007
- Taking
Democracy Global: Adressing the Benefits and Challenges of a Global Parliamentary
Assembly, by Andrew Strauss, One World Trust, July 2005
- Center
for UN Reform Education, A Reader on Second Assembly & Parliamentary
Proposals, ed. by Saul H. Mendlovitz and Barbara Walker, May 2003
- Towards a U.N. World Parliament:
U.N. Reform for the Progressive Evolution of an Elective and Accountable
Democratic Parliamentary Process in U.N. Governance in the New Millennium,
by
Robert Sheppard, Asia-Pacific Law & Policy Journal, 2000
- The United Nations and Global Institutions, Remarks by Erskine Childers, Secretary-General of the World Federation of United Nations Associations (WFUNA), 16 March 1996
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