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RI SEEKING MORE SUPPORT FOR IPU PRESIDENCY BID AT ASEP V MEETING
Beijing, June 19 (ANTARA) - While participating in an Asia-Europe Parliamentary Partnership meeting here, Indonesia is to seek the support of other countries for its bid to get elected as president of the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU), Indonesian House of Representatives (DPR) Speaker Agung Laksono said.
Laksono is in Beijing to attend the Fifth Asia-Europe Parliamentary Partnership (ASEP V) meeting which began on June 18 and will run until June 20.
"The ASEP meeting is an important and strategic opportunity for us to lobby and familiarize other countries on Indonesia's wish to be elected as IPU President in a vote planned to be held in October in Geneva," Laksono said here Thursday.
Some 150 parliamentarians from Asia and Europe are attending ASEP V. The Indonesian delegation includes Indonesian Ambassador to China Sudrajat.
Laksono said during the meeting Indonesia would try to convince members of parliaments from Europe as well as Asia that it had the potentials and capabilities needed to serve as IPU president.
He claimed Indonesia already had already won the support of 48 countries in Africa and rhe Middle East grouped in the "Union Islamic Country" and of some Asia Pacific countries.
"Hopefully, these countries' commitment to support Indonesia as IPU president will continue until voting day," he said.
But Laksono refused to elaborate further on Indonesia's chances to become IPU president. "The important thing is that I am ready to accept the candidacy," he said.
Support from the Union Islamic Country group of countries became apparent during the 118th IPU general assembly in Cape Town, South Africa, last April 13-18.
At the meeting, the chairman of the Indonesian parliament's Inter Parliamentary Cooperation Committee (BKSAP), Abdillah Toha was elected Vice President of IPU's Executive Committee representing Asia Pacific, along with A Kozlovski from Russia and A Papadimitrou from Greece.
Toha is a member of the House's Commission I and a senior politician from the National Mandate Party (PAN).
The vote result was a recognition of Toha's active role in the committee since October 2006. Vice President of IPU's Executive Committee is a strategic position in the IPU leadership.
Other Indonesian parliament members elected to positions in the IPU leadership were Simon Patrice Morin (as vice chaimran of IPU's Standing Committee), Aisyah Hamid Baidlowi (as member of IPU's Coordinating Committee of the Meeting of Women Parliamentarians), Luthfi Hassan Ishaaq (as member of IPU's Committee on Middle East Questions), and Wila Chandra Supriadi (as a permanent member of the
IPU's Committee on Promotion of Respect for International Humanitarian Law).
Laksono is in Beijing to attend the Fifth Asia-Europe Parliamentary Partnership (ASEP V) meeting which began on June 18 and will run until June 20.
"The ASEP meeting is an important and strategic opportunity for us to lobby and familiarize other countries on Indonesia's wish to be elected as IPU President in a vote planned to be held in October in Geneva," Laksono said here Thursday.
Some 150 parliamentarians from Asia and Europe are attending ASEP V. The Indonesian delegation includes Indonesian Ambassador to China Sudrajat.
Laksono said during the meeting Indonesia would try to convince members of parliaments from Europe as well as Asia that it had the potentials and capabilities needed to serve as IPU president.
He claimed Indonesia already had already won the support of 48 countries in Africa and rhe Middle East grouped in the "Union Islamic Country" and of some Asia Pacific countries.
"Hopefully, these countries' commitment to support Indonesia as IPU president will continue until voting day," he said.
But Laksono refused to elaborate further on Indonesia's chances to become IPU president. "The important thing is that I am ready to accept the candidacy," he said.
Support from the Union Islamic Country group of countries became apparent during the 118th IPU general assembly in Cape Town, South Africa, last April 13-18.
At the meeting, the chairman of the Indonesian parliament's Inter Parliamentary Cooperation Committee (BKSAP), Abdillah Toha was elected Vice President of IPU's Executive Committee representing Asia Pacific, along with A Kozlovski from Russia and A Papadimitrou from Greece.
Toha is a member of the House's Commission I and a senior politician from the National Mandate Party (PAN).
The vote result was a recognition of Toha's active role in the committee since October 2006. Vice President of IPU's Executive Committee is a strategic position in the IPU leadership.
Other Indonesian parliament members elected to positions in the IPU leadership were Simon Patrice Morin (as vice chaimran of IPU's Standing Committee), Aisyah Hamid Baidlowi (as member of IPU's Coordinating Committee of the Meeting of Women Parliamentarians), Luthfi Hassan Ishaaq (as member of IPU's Committee on Middle East Questions), and Wila Chandra Supriadi (as a permanent member of the
IPU's Committee on Promotion of Respect for International Humanitarian Law).
