Parliamentary delegation

• Congressman Dreier Leads International Delegation to Observe Egypt's Parliamentary Elections

Rep. David Dreier, R-San Dimas, is leading an international delegation that includes bipartisan members of Congress to observe the launch of Egypt's first parliamentary elections since dictator Hosni Mubarak's ouster nine months ago. Dreier is a board member of the International Republican Institute, which was founded by Ronald Reagan in 1983 to push democratization efforts in the former Soviet Union.

• Whittier Daily News
• November 29, 2011

• 22 USC 276 - Sec. 276m. United States Delegation to Parliamentary Assembly of Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe (CSCE)

• US Code - Title 22: Foreign Relations and Intercourse

• British Mp

KYIV, Ukraine, June 24, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- The head of the British delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe Robert Walter believes that dialogue with Ukraine needs to be conducted keeping in mind the country's future membership in the European Union. "The need for deepening and developing the relationship with Ukraine is natural and needs to be conducted in line with future EU membership of the country," said Walter, commenting on the Ukrainian President's speech at PACE.

• U.S. Newswire
• June 24, 2011

• Loving v. United States, 517 U.S. 748 (1996)

...(a) The fundamental precept of the delegation doctrine, a strand of this Court's separation-of-p...; and they knew the resulting parliamentary practice of delegation. The Framers' choice in Cla...

• U.S. Supreme Court

• European Union and the Russian Federation

TRIESTE, Italy, Oct. 17, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- The Esimit Europa project organized a gala evening in Trieste, attended by ambassadors from different European countries, members of the European Parliament and executives from the leading European enterprises. Keynote speeches from Igor Simcic, Founder of the Esimit Europa Project, and Knut Fleckenstein, Chairman of the Delegation to the European Union and Russia Parliamentary Cooperation Committee, were delivered, discussing a necessity of strengthening collaboration between the for a further success on the global market. The need common goals and common projects to get closer to each other, especially in their major fields of cooperation - energy, investm...

• U.S. Newswire
• October 17, 2011

• [ Embassy Row ]

Korea checking in A bipartisan South Korean parliamentary delegation urged the Bush administration to maintain multilateral talks with North Korea to reduce the nuclear threat posed by the communist government.

• The Washington Times
• November 29, 2004

• Iran's Bloody Hands

It is getting increasingly difficult to deny Iran's destructive role in Iraq and the reality that coalition forces have failed to come up with a long-term solution to the problem. According to Col. Donald Bacon, a spokesman for coalition forces in Iraq, the elite Quds Force - which is affiliated with Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps - has brought in Hezbollah personnel to train Iraqi Shi'ite militia members. Last week, a five-member parliamentary delegation from Iraq visited Iran, reportedly to meet with Gen. Ghassem Soleimani, head of the Revolutionary Guards, in an effort to persuade him to end the subversion. But it's difficult to see how sending Iraqi parliamentarians on pilgrammages to Tehran to talk the regime into changing its behavior for the better. By contrast it's rel...

• The Washington Times
• May 07, 2008

• Hamas Must Transform, Russian Says

MOSCOW -- Russia's foreign minister said Friday that the radical Islamic group Hamas has no "serious future" unless it transforms itself into a peaceful political party and integrates its military wing, which has claimed responsibility for dozens of suicide bombings in Israel, into the legitimate Palestinian security forces. This is the message we here in Moscow will be conveying to Hamas and hoping that Hamas will be listening," said Sergei Lavrov before meeting with a delegation from the Palestinian group, which won parliamentary elections in January.

• Deseret News (Salt Lake City)
• March 04, 2006

• Tanner's 9-Day Mission Over -- He Led 'Mediterranean Dialogue' On Nato

WASHINGTON - U.S. Rep. John Tanner, D-Tenn., is back home after leading a congressional delegation to Portugal, Tunisia and Morocco, where he discussed NATO's missions in Afghanistan and the Balkans and efforts to stem fundamentalist extremism. Tanner led the delegation to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization's parliamentary assembly on the island of Madeira off the Portuguese coast. But he said the most interesting part of the nine-day trip was the renewed emphasis on the multi-national organization's "Mediterranean dialogue" with non-NATO members in North Africa.

• The Commercial Appeal (2007-Current)
• June 12, 2007

• Christopher Smith Rebuts Kazakh Claims On Meeting

WASHINGTON, July 5 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Rep. Christopher H. Smith (R-N.J.), co-chairman of the Helsinki Commission, disassociated himself from views attributed to him in a July 4 press release by Kazinform. That release claimed Smith had said Kazakhstan has "real chances" to become OSCE Chairman-in-Office in 2009, as "all requirements are quite feasible. Smith, co-chairman of the U.S. Delegation to the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly which is holding its annual meeting in Washington, said the English-language press release failed to convey accurately his position.

• U.S. Newswire
• July 05, 2005