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2003 - Lisbon

Third IEPFPD Council Meeting - 26-27 May 2003, Lisbon

Resource mobilisation, creating an enabling environment and overcoming barriers and obstacles to implementation of the ICPD

Lisbon GroupThe IEPFPD held its Third Council meeting in the Portuguese Senate on 26 and 27 May 2003 in Lisbon upon the invitation of the President of the Portuguese Parliament, Mr Joao Bosco da Mota Amaral, the Portuguese Parliamentary Group on Population and Development and the Portuguese Family Planning Association. Parliamentarians from over 20 European countries met and discussed resource mobilisation, creating an enabling environment and overcoming barriers and obstacles to implementation of the ICPD.

The meeting was opened by Thoraya Obaid, Executive Director of UNFPA, Dr Steven Sinding, Director General of IPPF who both called on European parliamentarians to take on the leadership in ensuring universal reproductive health. The IEPFPD Council elected Ruth Genner, MP (Switzerland) as its new President. Parliamentarians from Portugal, Spain, France, the UK, Sweden, Lithuania and Turkey were elected onto the expanded Executive Committee and, in recognition of their commitment and devotion to population and development issues and working with European parliamentarians, inducted Ms Marjatta Vehkaoja, former IEPFPD President, and Stirling Scruggs, Director of IERD of the UNFPA, as Honourary Members of the IEPFPD. The IEPFPD Council adopted a Declaration reaffirming that the ICPD Programme of Action constitutes the very basis for progress on population, sexual and reproductive health and rights and sustainable development issues.

Lisbon HemycicleThe meeting was attended by parliamentarians from 20 parliaments in Europe, representatives of the four other regional parliamentary networks in Asia, the Americas and Africa and the Arab World (AFPPD, IAPG and FAAPPD), UNFPA, IPPF, IPPF EN, the World Bank, the representatives of the embassies of Finland, Indonesia, Angola, the Holy See and NGOs from Spain, UK, Germany, France, Portugal and Turkey.


 

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