Of Current Interest
The next meeting of the ASGP will take place in Geneva between 13th and 16th October. There will be debates and communications on a number of interesting topics relating to parliamentary practice. Papers are available on the 'Upcoming Meeting' page. Papers from the ASGP's highly successful meeting in Cape Town in April are available on the 'Past Meetings' page.
On Thursday 28 February the President of the ASGP visited New York for the Second meeting of the Board of the Global Centre for ICT in parliament, in his capacity as advisor to the board.
1. I am writing to you because the subscription owed by your parliamentary chamber is overdue. The Executive Committee agreed at the Geneva session in October 2007 that I should write to all members of the ASGP whose subscriptions had not been received for more than two years. Each parliamentary chamber is responsible for its own costs.
New Members
At the ASGP session in Cape Town (14-18 April 2008), the following new members were accepted:
Mr Ghulam Hassan Gran
Secretary General of the House of Representatives of Afghanistan
(This country is joining the ASGP for the first time)
Mr Enrique Hidalgo
Secretary General of the Chamber of Deputies of Argentina
(replacing Mr Roberto MARAFIOTI)
Mr Ashfaque Hamid
Secretary General of the Bangladesh Parliament
(replacing Mr ATM Ataur Rahman)
Mr Aloys Kayanzari
Secretary General of the Senate of Burundi
(replacing Mr Edouard Nduwimana)
Mr Adrian Hayes
Clerk of the House of Representatives of Grenada
(This country is joining the ASGP for the first time)
Mr Nikolas Stefanou
Secretary General of the Hellenic Parliament
(replacing Mr George Karabatzos)
Dr V.K. Agnihotri
Secretary General of the Rajya Sabha of India
(replacing Dr Yogendra Narain)
Mrs Nining Indra Shaleh
Deputy Secretary General of the House of Representatives of the Republic of Indonesia
(replacing Mrs I. Gusti Ayu Darsini)
Mr Boubacar Idi Gado
Secretary General of the Inter-parliamentary Committee of the West African Economic and Monetary Union (WAEMU)
(This union is joining the ASGP for the first time)
Mr Masafumi Hashimoto
Deputy Secretary General of the House of Councillors of the National Diet of Japan(replacing Mr Mikio Obata, who became Secretary General)
Ms Roosme Hamzah
Secretary General of the House of Representatives of Malaysia
(replacing Mr Mahmood Bin Adam)
Mr Mohamed Traoré
Secretary General of the National Assembly of Mali
(replacing Mr Seydou Nourou Keita)
Mr Mohamed Vall Ould Koueiri
Secretary General of the National Assembly of Mauritania
(replacing the previous Secretary General)
Mr Abdelhamid Khalili
Secretary General of the House of Representatives of Morocco
(replacing Mr Abdeljalil Zerhouni)
Mr Baptista Ismael Machaieie
Acting Secretary General of the Assembly of the Republic of Mozambique
(replacing Dr Carlos Manuel)
Mary Harris
Clerk of the House of Representatives of New Zealand
(replacing Mr David McGee)
Mrs Marilyn B. Barua-Yap
Secretary General of the House of Representatives of the Philippines
(replacing Mr Roberto P. Nazareno)
Mr Titu Gheorghiof
Secretary General of the Chamber of Deputies of Romania
(replacing Mrs Georgeta Ionescu)
Ms Fatou Banel Sow Gueye
Secretary General of the Senate of Senegal
(This Chamber is joining the ASGP for the first time)
Mr Sitor Ndour
Deputy Secretary General of the National Assembly of Senegal
(replacing Mrs Marie-Josée Boucher-Camara)
Ms Marie-Nella Azemia
Clerk to the National Assembly of the Republic of the Seychelles
(This country is joining the ASGP for the first time)
Dr Abukar Mohamed Gure
Director General of the Transitional Federal Parliament of the Somali Republic
(replacing Mr Mohamed Hassan Awale)
Ms Lulama Lorraine Matyolo-Dube
Secretary to the National Council of Provinces of South Africa
(This Chamber is joining the ASGP for the first time)
Mr Michael Coetzee
Deputy Secretary to the Parliament of South Africa
Mr Dhammika Dasanayake
Deputy Secretary General of the Parliament of Sri Lanka
(replacing Mrs Priyanee WIJESEKERA)
Mr João Rui Amaral
Secretary General of the National Parliament of Timor Leste
(This country is joining the ASGP for the first time)
Mr Paul Gamusi Wabwire
Deputy Clerk of Legislative Services of the Parliament of Uganda
(replacing Mr Samuel Emiku)
Mr David Beamish
Clerk Assistant of the House of Lords of the United Kingdom
(replacing Mr Michael Pownall, who has become Clerk of the Parliaments)
Mr Kennedy Mugove Chokuda
Deputy Clerk of Parliament (House of Assembly) of Zimbabwe
Last Meeting in Brief
Cape Town, 14-18 April 2008
The ASGP met in Cape Town between 14-18 April.
A list of attendees for the ASGP session is now available under
Past meetings.
New appointments of Secretaries General
The ASGP Secretariat has learnt of the following recent appointments.
(Not all of those below are necessarily members of the ASGP.)
Mr Assadullah Falah
Secretary General of the Upper House of Afghanistan
Mr Nima Tshering
Secretary General of the National Assembly of Bhutan
Mr Alphonse Nombré
Acting Secretary General of the National Assembly of Burkina Faso
Mr Louis-Claude Nyassa
Secretary General of the National Assembly of Cameroon
Mr Li Jianguo
Secretary General of the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress of China
Mr Socrates Socratous
Acting Secretary General of the House of Representatives of Cyprus
Mr Carsten U. Larsen
Secretary General of the Danish Parliament
Mr Claus Dethlefsen
Deputy Secretary General of the Danish Parliament
Mr David Janiashvili
Secretary General of the Parliament of Georgia
Mrs Nining Indra Saleh
Secretary General of the House of Representatives of Indonesia
Mr Yerghen Doshayev
Secretary General of the House of Representatives of the Republic of Kazakhstan
Mr Patrick G. Gichohi
Clerk of the National Assembly of Kenya
Mr Riana Andriamandavy
Secretary General of the Senate of Madagascar
Ms Pauline Abela
Acting Clerk of the House of Representatives of Malta
Mr D. Sandag-Ochir
Secretary General of the State Great Hural of Mongolia
Mr Manohar Prasad Bhattarai
Acting Secretary General of the Parliament of Nepal
Mr PARK Kye Dong
Secretary General of the National Assembly of the Republic of Korea
Mr Alexey A. Sigutkin
Secretary General of the State Duma of the Russian Federation
Dr Mohammed A. Al Ghamdi
Secretary General of the Shura Council of Saudi Arabia
Mr Veljko Odalovic
Secretary General of the National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia
Mr Dhammika Kitulgoda
Secretary General of the Parliament of Sri Lanka
Mr Christoph Lanz
Secretary General of the Swiss Parliament
Mr Philippe Schwab
Secretary of the Council of States and Deputy Secretary of the Federal Assembly of the Swiss Parliament