International Parliamentary Union to issue historic recommendation, official

The International Parliamentary Union (IPU) will make historic recommendations during its 107th session, to open Monday in the Moroccan city of Marrakesh, speaker of the Moroccan house of representatives (lower chamber), Abdelouahed Radi, said.

The topics to be debated by the session deal with the major concerns at the international scale, Radi told the press on Friday.

Participants will debate the role of parliaments in the definition of public policies in the era of globalization, the backing of world parliaments to the Kyoto protocol on climate change, child labor and women's participation in public life, he said.

The Palestinian issue, especially the recent U.N. Security Council on the vision of a Palestinian state, and terrorism are other items on the agenda, he added.