{"id":31990,"date":"2014-10-11T09:18:24","date_gmt":"2014-10-11T08:18:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=31990"},"modified":"2014-10-11T09:18:24","modified_gmt":"2014-10-11T08:18:24","slug":"mark-leads-nigerian-parliamentarians-131st-ipu-geneva","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/mark-leads-nigerian-parliamentarians-131st-ipu-geneva\/","title":{"rendered":"Mark leads Nigerian Parliamentarians to\u00a0 131st IPU in Geneva\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;-to address Assembly on terrorism in Nigeria<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">President of the Senate, Senator David Mark will on Saturday (11\/10\/14)lead Nigerian Parliamentarians to the 131st Inter- Parliamentary Union (IPU) holding in Geneva, Switzerland .<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Senator Mark will on Monday address\u00a0 the Assembly on the issue of terrorism and insurgency ravaging Nigeria, efforts so far made and seek global support to tackle the menace\u00a0 in the country.<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">He is also expected to lead Nigerian debate on achieving gender equality and measures towards ending violence against women ; the Nigerian perspective.<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Other Issues slated for debate at the global\u00a0 conference includes but not limited to international law as it relates to national sovereignty, non-intervention in the internal affairs of states and human rights as well as the election of the president and vice president of IPU .<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The tenure of the incumbent President of IPU Abdelwahab Radi of Morocco ends this month (October). Radi was elected for a three year mandate on October 19, 2011 at the 189th session of the governing council in Bern, Canada.<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The Nigerian Senate President will be accompanied by the Deputy Speaker, House of Representatives&#8217; Emeka Ihedioha , Senators Helen Esuene, Abdulazeez Usman, Edobor Uzamere\u00a0 and\u00a0 Hassan BarataHassan.<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">House of Representatives&#8217;\u00a0 Mohammed Sani, Daniel Reneiju, Bello Binta Fatima and Ibrahim Dorguwa are also on the delegation.<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">They are expected back in Nigeria on Friday, October 17, 2014.<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Signed:<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Paul Mumeh, Chief Press Secretary to the President of the Senate.<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;-to address Assembly on terrorism in NigeriaPresident of the Senate, Senator David Mark will on Saturday (11\/10\/14)lead Nigerian Parliamentarians to the 131st Inter- Parliamentary Union (IPU) holding in Geneva, Switzerland&hellip;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31992,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - 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