Of Current Interest
The ASGP is sad to learn of the recent death of Mr Samuel Waweru Ndindiri, Secretary General of the National Assembly of Kenya and a member of the Executive Committee of the ASGP.
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 Lekoueiry
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