IPC delegation to attend 5th General Assembly meeting of A-WEB in Cape town
ISLAMABAD, OCT 17 /DNA/ – IPC is
an international Organization, that works closely with individual members of
national Parliaments across the globe to jointly resolve global and regional
issues that invariably impact the whole of humanity. Among other thematic areas
of IPC, one of its important mandates is to send the delegation from IPC to
monitor and observe the elections held in the world to assess free, fair, and
transparent elections and its electioneering process, and seek guidance from
the country’s electoral procedures.
With continuous effort, IPC
gained accreditation for election observation missions from various countries
and sent delegations to observe the Parliamentary elections of the United
Kingdom (2019), Jordan (2020), Netherlands (2021), and the Presidential
elections of Colombia (2022), and published reports.
In regard to this, IPC formed
close ties with the Association of World Election Bodies (A-WEB), the largest
association of Election Management Bodies (EMBs) worldwide with a vision to
foster efficiency and effectiveness in conducting free, fair, transparent, and
participative elections worldwide. A Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) was
signed between both organizations to further work in unison towards election
management bodies and foster mutual goals.
The Electoral Commission of South
Africa (IEC) and the Secretariat of the A-WEB invited the IPC Secretariat to
attend the 5th General Assembly Meeting of A-WEB and the International
Conference on “Safeguarding Election Management Bodies in the Age of Global
Democratic Recession”,that is takingplace in Cape Town, South Africa from19thto
21st October 2022.
A delegation from IPC is sent to South Africa to ensure its participation in the General Assembly meeting as well as in the international conference. This participation will not only strengthen the role of the IPC globally but also enable IPC to share its experience of electoral missions and its reports and seek guidance for IPC’sfuture activities to implement them in a more experienced way.=DNA
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