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5-525: The African Parliamentary Union , formerly the Union of African Parliaments, is a continental interparliamentary organization first established in Abidjan on 13 February 1976. The Union aims to bring together the parliamentary institutions of all the nations of Africa , to encourage contacts among African and world parliamentarians , and to strengthen and promote democracy and peace. Forty parliaments are members of
10-630: The Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic . This article about a political organization is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This article about an organization in Africa is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Inter-parliamentary institution An inter-parliamentary institution (also known as Inter-parliamentary assembly ) is an organization of more than one national legislatures ( parliament , assembly , council and other types). Most of
15-518: The APU. The APU holds annual conferences in order to further its goals and also organizes parliamentary meetings in cooperation with International Organizations or Institutions. The working languages of the Union are English , Arabic , French and Portuguese . [REDACTED] Non-members are Eritrea , Seychelles , Comoros , Mauritius , Madagascar , Tanzania , Zimbabwe , Malawi , Mozambique , Botswana , South Africa , Eswatini , Lesotho , and
20-475: The inter-parliamentary institutions are part of an intergovernmental organization . Such branches of intergovernmental organizations are typically established in order to provide for representation of citizens , rather than governments who are represented in other bodies within the organization. Most of the inter-parliamentary institutions have an assembly comprising members of the national legislatures (whose members are directly elected in most cases ). Most of
25-417: The inter-parliamentary institutions do not hold legislative power and have a consulting or informal cooperation-stimulating role. When the intergovernmental organization chooses to operate through a hybrid system of not only intergovernmentalism , but also supranationalism an organization-level legislature is established (or a predecessor inter-parliamentary institution is granted legislative power ) in
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