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Browsing through this RETROSPECTIVE COLLECTION of press releases of the Inter-Parliamentary Union is the best way to learn quickly about the not-so-distant events in the life of the Union and the world parliamentary community. To select a year other than 1996, go directly to the corresponding page:

	MPs pledge to follow up World Food Summit (Geneva, 18 November)
	Parliamentarians meet during World Food Summit (Geneva and Rome, November)
	MPs meet at UN on landmines, new democracies, and UN reform (New York/Geneva, 21 October)
	IPU Council ends Beijing IPU meetings (Beijing, 21 September)
	IPU Conference adopts motions on anti-personnel mines, human righst and food security (Beijing, 20 September)
	IPU Conference inaugurated in Beijing by President of China (Beijing, 16 September)
	Tian Jiyun elected Chairman of Beijing IPU Conference (Beijing, 16 September)
	Three new parliaments join IPU (Beijing, 16 September)
	IPU data reveal a decreasing number of women in world's parliaments (Beijing, 16 September)
	World-wide assembly of MPs to be held in Beijing (Beijing, 15 September)
	IPU and UN sign Co-operation Agreement (Geneva, 24 July)
	IPU meets to examine cases of MPs under attack (Geneva, 15 July)
	Co-operation between parliaments and UNESCO urged by world conference of MPs (Paris, 6 June)
	MPs start world conference on challenges of 21st century (Paris, 3 June)
	MPs to meet at UNESCO on challenges in education, culture and information highways (Paris/Geneva, 29 May)
	Conclusion of Istanbul Conference (Istanbul, 20 April)
	Istanbul IPU meeting calls for an international convention on terrorism, legal rights for minorities, and more responsible fishing (Istanbul, 19 April)
	IPU Istanbul Conference votes to debate terrorism but not Lebanon (Istanbul, 15 April)
	95th Inter-Parliamentary Conference opens in Istanbul with calls for tolerance and democracy (Istanbul, 15 April)
	Number of women legislators remains low in world (Istanbul, 14 April)
	MPs to debate minorities and diminishing fish stocks at world-wide meeting in Istanbul (Istanbul/Geneva, 11 April)
	IPU to hold meeting of African MPs on parliamentary democracy (Geneva/Ouagadougou, 11 March)
	New head of IPU human rights watchdog (Geneva, 22 January)