Nigeria’s Senate Minority Whip, Senator Osita Ngwu, has been elected as African representative to the Bureau of the Standing Committee on Peace and International Security at the 150th Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) Assembly in Tashkent, Uzbekistan.
The Nigerian lawmaker was nominated to be part of the committee by Nigeria and the West African sub-region.
Senator Ngwu, who represents Enugu West in the Senate, alongside his colleagues in Nigeria’s Senate and House of Representatives, have been participating in the ongoing high-profile meeting of the IPU holding in Uzbekistan.
IPU Committee on Peace and International Security is to provide Member-Parliaments with the political framework for effective action on global threats. A key forum on the subject is to examines peace and security developments and help identify and implement responses to the threats.
Its main objective is to promote peace and security in the world. Although its original remit was to focus on conflict prevention, peacekeeping and peacebuilding, changing times have meant readjusting its focus.
Terrorism, cyber security, nuclear proliferation as well as issues relating to governance that have given rise to regional conflicts whose impacts are being felt across the world, are just some of the more recent preoccupations of the Committee.
The Committee on Peace and International Security meets twice-yearly and all Member-parliaments are able to take an active role in putting forward items for the Committee’s agenda, bringing their perspective to the debates and the drafting of resolutions. Once a year, the Committee prepares a resolution for adoption by IPU Members.
