The 10th Cetinje Parliamentary Forum: "Women, Peace, Security"
24/06/2010
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The 10th Cetinje Parliamentary Forum (CPF): "Women, Peace, and Security" was held from 21 - 22 June 2010. It gathered around 60 participants, delegations from 7 countries (Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Macedonia, Montenegro, Slovenia, and Serbia) and 7 international organizations. CPF is an initiative that promotes and stimulates parliamentary dialogue between the countries of the region. Through the previous 9 sessions, it gathered more than 550 members of the parliaments of the countries of the region, as well as from the partner countries, EU member states.
This 10th parliamentary forum was dedicated to the implementation of the UN Security Council Resolution 1325 (SCR 1325) - the first resolution on women, peace and security, which was unanimously adopted by the United Nations Security Council on 31 October 2000. The SCR1325 marked the first time the Security Council addressed the disproportionate and unique impact of armed conflict on women; recognized the under-valued and under-utilized contributions women make to conflict prevention, peacekeeping, conflict resolution and peace-building.
Ms. Nada Drobnjak, Chair of the Gender Equality Committee in the Parliament of Montenegro emphasized that it is of crucial importance for the society as a whole to achieve equal participation and division of responsibilities among men and women, in political and public life, and thus in the security system too.
The aims of the CPF are improving cooperation, sharing knowledge and experiences, strengthening links in order to maintain continuity in terms of deepening parliamentary cooperation and diplomacy in the region, improvement of bilateral and multilateral connections, rapprochement of the representatives of the legislative institutions in the countries that share common historical and cultural heritage, but the European perspective as well.
For more information, videos and joint statements please visit: http://www.undp.org.me/
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