Doc. 9090
7 May 2001

State of the world population

Motion for a resolution

presented by Mrs Zwerver and others

This motion has not been discussed in the Assembly and commits only the members who have signed it

1. The Assembly’s commitment to population and development, demographic and sexual and reproductive health and rights issues, was recently demonstrated by the adoption of the report on Demographic Change and Sustainable Development (2001), and previously with the adoption of the report on the International Conference on Population and Development; Follow-up by the Council of Europe and its member states (1995).

2. The annual launch of the UNFPA (United Nations Fund for Population) State of the World Population report takes place in many European countries and parliaments, but not yet in the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe.

3. The theme for the 2001 State of the World Population report will be population and environment.

4. The majority of Council of Europe member states have not yet lived up to the commitments they entered into in Cairo in 1994 in the Programme of Action and more efforts have to be made to raise awareness of this important issue.

5. The Assembly decides to take part in the annual launch of the State of the World Population report, starting with the launch scheduled to take place this September 2001.

6. The Assembly calls for the support of the governmental and non-governmental experts in this field who have worked with the Assembly on previous occasions, namely the United Nations Population Fund and the International Planned Parenthood Federation – European Network, as well as the newly created Inter-European Parliamentary Forum on Population and Development, in the launch of the State of the World Population report in the Assembly.

Signed (see overleaf)

Signed : ¹

Zwerver, Netherlands, SOC

Behrendt, Germany, SOC

Cilevics, Latvia, SOC

Davis, United Kingdom, SOC

Err, Luxembourg, SOC

Etherington, UK, SOC

Gross, Switzerland, SOC

Herczog, Hungary, SOC

Iwinski, Poland, SOC

Jones, United Kingdom, SOC

Judd, United Kingdom, SOC

Lippelt, Germany, LDR

Lörcher, Germany, SOC

Mutman, Turkey, SOC

Ponsonby, United Kingdom, SOC

Schieder, Austria, SOC

Severinsen, Denmark, LDR

Szinyei, Hungary, EPP/CD

Tautto, Finland, SOC

Vanoost, Belgium, SOC

Vermot-Mangold, Switzerland, SOC

Vis, United Kingdom, SOC

Yaňez-Barnuevo, Spain, SOC

Zapfl-Helbling, Switzerland, EPP/CD

¹        SOC: Socialist Group

      EPP/CD: Group of the European People’s Party

      EDG: European Democratic Group

      LDR : Liberal, Democratic and Reformers’ Group

      UEL: Group of the Unified European Left

      NR: not registered in a group