IPU body sought to bar outside interference in state’s internal affairs

Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) sought to set up a mechanism to ensure prevention of outside interference and intervention in the internal affairs of sovereign states.

IPU, organisation of world parliaments, urges parliamentarians from more than one hundred countries gathered in Dhaka in its conference to support the establishment and effective functioning of an IPU observatory to this regard.

The observatory will ensure early warning of outside interference and intervention in the internal affairs of sovereign states, according to a draft resolution on the role of parliament in preventing outside interference in the internal affairs of sovereign states.  

The resolution says that the people have the exclusive right to determine their own political future, based on the specific features of their country.

The draft resolution also calls on parliaments to be aware of the concerns of the international community relating to cases of interference in the internal affairs of sovereign states under the pretext that human rights are being violated and that there is a consequent "responsibility to pretext."

Parliamentarians opened this morning a debate on the draft resolution and will continue until afternoon to reach a consensus on the issue.     

Participating in the debate at Bangabandhu International Convention Centre (BICC), some MPs said that the world is facing the present trouble due to outside interference in the internal affairs of states.

They, for example, cited the current situation in Iraq and Syria. They also blamed the outside interference for the rise of ISIS, global militant outfit.

The Standing Committee on Peace and International Security of IPU organised the debate.

Parliamentarians from Germany, India, France, Bahrain, Nepal, Iceland, China, Turkey and Ukraine were among others that participated in the morning session.