This series consists of documents relating to work accomplished by Marcel Prud'homme as an MP and a Senator while participating to international meetings of the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU).
The IPU is a multilateral Parliamentary Association with a Canadian Group that receives budgetary and administrative support from Parliament. At the time of Prud'homme's involvement, the IPU met twice a year: its various study committees held preliminary meetings in the spring to debate topics, and a full-scale conference was held in the fall.
Prud'homme served as president of the Canadian Group from 1982 to 1984. In 1984, he was elected Chair of the Inter-Parliamentary Union Committee on Political Questions, International Security and Disarmament. In this position, he played an important role balancing the diverse and often competing interests of different nations around the table. He stepped down from this role in 1987.
In 1985, Prud'homme chaired the Organization Committee of the 74th Conference of the IPU held in Ottawa. Having attended twenty-five conferences and assemblies, Prud'homme is Canada's longest-serving delegate to the IPU.
The following is a complete list of IPU Conferences and Assemblies attended by Marcel Prud'homme:
1981 Manila, Philippines, Spring Meeting of the IPU
1981 Havana, Cuba, 68th Conference of the IPU
1982 Lagos, Nigeria, Spring Meeting of the IPU
1982 Rome, Italy, 69th Conference of the IPU
1983 Helsinki, Finland, Spring Meeting of the IPU
1983 Seoul, Republic of Korea, 70th Conference of the IPU
1984 Geneva, Switzerland, 71st Conference of the IPU
1984 Geneva, Switzerland, 72nd Conference of the IPU
1985 Lomé, Togo, 73rd Conference of the IPU
1985 Ottawa, Canada, 74th Conference of the IPU
1986 Mexico City, Mexico, 75th Conference of the IPU
1986 Buenos Aires, Argentina, 76th Conference of the IPU
1987 Bangkok, Thailand, 78th Conference of the IPU
1989 Budapest, Hungary, 81st Conference of the IPU
1989 London, United Kingdom, 100th Conference of the IPU
1990 Nicosia, Cyprus, 83rd Conference of the IPU
1991 Pyongyang, D.P.R. Korea, 85th Conference of the IPU
1992 Stockholm, Sweden, 88th Conference of the IPU
1997 Seoul, Republic of Korea, 97th Conference of the IPU
1997 Cairo, Egypt, 98th Conference of the IPU
1998 Moscow, Russia, 100th Conference of the IPU
2000 Amman, Jordan, 103rd Conference of the IPU
2001 Havana, Cuba, 105th Conference of the IPU
2002 Marrakech, Morocco, 107th Conference of the IPU
2004 Mexico City, Mexico, 110th Assembly of the IPU
This series also contains material from symposiums, working sessions and other special meetings of the IPU, including the Inter-Parliamentary Symposium on Parliaments of the United Nations (1978) and the Inter-Parliamentary Symposium on the Participation of Women in the Political and Parliamentary Decision-Making Process (1989).
This series contains records from each of the conferences, symposiums and meetings attended by Prud'homme for the IPU, as well as from the Canadian Group. These records include invitations, travel documents, programs and guides, speeches and drafts, press releases, background information, resolutions and drafts, declarations, bulletins, budgets, meeting notes, letters, member lists, elections, reports, and other documents.
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