About the IPSP
The
International Parliament for Safety and Peace (IPSP) has
operated for over 33 years
in Palermo, Sicily. It is an intergovernmental
organization of States, founded originally
by constituting charter of the Republics of Cyprus,
Senegal and Mali on 15th
December 1975 and has today parliamentary and diplomatic
delegations in more than 130 Nations.
Founders
of the International Parliament for Safety and Peace are
the orthodox Archbishops Monsignore Viktor Busa & who
is first president of the Board of States for the life
protection, and the late orthodox Archbishop Monsignor
Makariós III, former president of the Republic of Cyprus.
The
international presidency with seat in Palermo, main city
of Sicily, is ruled for life by Monsignore Victor
Busa, who has been appointed Vice Chairman of the Committe
for Culture of the Russian State Duma in 2007. Makaríos
III was the first Secretary General. After his death
in 1977, the late Spyros
Kyprianou, the then new president of the
Republic of Cyprus, succeeded him and took up the
vice-chair in 1987 and the International Parliament of
States signed a convention of cooperation with the
University of Peace of the United Nations, which is
located in Costa Rica.
Ruling
presidents of sovereign nations who, of course, fully recognize the
IPSP and are Vice Presidents of the IPSP:
H.E.
Don Teodoro
Obiang Nguema Mbasogo *Brig General Ret
President
of the Republic of Equatorial
Guinea
1. Vice
President of the International Parliament since 1995
H.E.
Don Hugo
Rafael Chavez Frias *Army Colonel
President
of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela
2.
International Vice President since 1999
Secretary
General :H.E. President General Lansana
Conte, Guinea.
Grand Chancellor : H.E. President Omar
Bongo Ondimba, Gabon
Members
of the Supreme Council of the Presidency
Sen.
Dr. Joaquin Balaguer (+), former President of the
Dominican Republic
Sen. Prof. Rodrigo C. Odio (+), former President of Costa
Rica
Sen. Spyros Kyprianou (+), former President of Cyprus
Sen. Dr. Hugh D. Hoyte (+), former President of Guyana
Archbishop Makarios III (+), former President of Cyprus
Sen. Dr. Franjo Tudjman (+), former President of Croatia
Sen. Lius. A. Siles Salinas, former President of Bolivia
Sen. Mircea Snegur, former President of Moldova
Sen. Mario Soares, former President of Portugal
Sen. Moussa Traore, former President of Mali
Sen. Ing. Juan Carlos Wasmosy, former President of
Paraguay
The
International Parliament for Safety and Peace (IPSP) has
been founded to defend Peace
of all the peoples around the world and for Security in
every Nation. All States that join have the moral duty to
give each other help and cooperation. Being an Association
of States, the International Parliament has to give any
moral, political, diplomatic, cultural, inter-religious,
economic and social support to all governments of the
Nations, to their peoples and to the respective
parliamentary institutions. All Nations are eligible members by
Regulation of the International Parliament for Safety and Peace.
They are represented by the respective Heads of State and
of governments, by the Ministers of Foreign Affairs and by
the Presidents of the Parliaments.
The
Heads of State propose to the Lord President of the
International Parliament for Safety and Peace; those
personalities who will have to represent the Nations at
the inter-governmental organization, are the appointed
ambassadors, plenipotentiary ministers, resident ministers
delegates, chargés de affaires and diplomatic counselors:
they answer only to the supreme authority of the
International Parliament of States. These diplomats are
protected by public international law and by the Convention of Vienna of
1961 & 1963. The seat
of the international presidency of the International
Parliament of States for Safety and Peace, as well as all
the diplomatic seats operating in the different Nations,
are considered neutral territories, after it is settled that
neutrality is a term belonging to the public international
law that establishes the impartiality and the complete
abstention of partisan initiatives of a State, while
others are at war.
Moreover
it a very widespread opinion that international legal
status must be recognized by all the organized
international Unions.
The
International Parliament has two branches: The High Chamber
of senators and the Deputies Assembly. The High Chamber is
composed by 400 senators, while the Assembly has 800
deputies. Both senators and parliamentary deputies and
counselors are elected every five years by the supreme
Council of Presidents and they can be confirmed again in
the future elections. According to international law and
customs, the members of the International Parliament
enjoy immunity inside the States that have normal
diplomatic relations. For the other Nations, where there
is no such protocol relations, the members can enjoy
only functional immunity: as a matter of fact they
cannot be prosecuted for their political and diplomatic
activity in defence of peace, security, freedom and
justice.
Bi-annualy
the International Parliament of States
organizes conferences about security in the Mediterranean,
attended by diplomats and politicians from all Nations.
During the conference opening, the Lord President awards
the Trophy of Peace to the heads of State who remarkably
distinguished themselves all over the world for their
excellent gifts and who have defended peace, justice, social and political safety, as well as
freedom.
In
1989 the Trophy of Peace was conferred to the former
president of the Soviet Union Mikhail S. Gorbachev, in 1995
the president of the Republic of South Africa H.E. Nelson
Mandela was solemnly rewarded as well as Dr. Carlos Saul
Menem, President of the Republic of Argentina. In 2002
H.E. Lansana Conte, President of the Republic of Guinea
has been honoured with the Peace Trophy. In 2004 H.E.
Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo, President of of the
Republic of Equatorial Guinea and H.E. Hugo Chavez Frias,
President of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela were
honoured as well.
Finally
in 2006 President Omar
Bongo Ondimba of Gabon got the Peace Trophy for his never
ending efforts in promoting peace and security in his
region of Africa.
The
International Parliament for Safety and Peace intervened
several times in many international conflicts and diplomatic
crises, such as the clash between Turkey and Cyprus; the
crisis between Somalia and Ethiopia, the conflicts in
Uganda, Central Africa, Mali and Chad, the war in the
Middle East, the civil war in Sri Lanka, the war between
Iraq and Iran, the war in the former Yugoslavia, the civil
war in Rwanda, the crises and the conflicts in Congo,
Angola, Mozambique and Zaire, against racism in South
Africa, the civil war in Moldavia, the war between Russia
and Chechnya, the different wars in central Asia, the war
between Ecuador and Peru in 1995, against the racial and ethnical
violence all around the world, finally against the
resumption of the nuclear tests of France and most
recently in the rivalry between Equatorial Guinea and
Gabon over the Island of Mbane in the 2000's.
For the subjects of exclusive competence of the
lord president of the International Parliament for safety
and peace, we can surely affirm that the appointment of
ambassadors, ministers and of any other officer, taking
shape the attribution of the qualification of "external
authority" according to international law, are of
exclusive competence. The lord president, who is
completely equivalent to a head of State, because he makes
officially credit by the governments of the interested
States, their own ambassadors, ministers and chargés de
affaires.
So, he enjoys all privileges, the immunities and the
honours reserved to the heads of State; most in general
you can refer back to the well-known Conventions of Vienna
of 1961 and 1963.
The
International Parliament for Safety and Peace has
participated in some international conferences organized
by the United Nations (Addis Abeba and Vienna and 1988 in
Cannes, France) and has
been invited as observer at the general political
elections of the Republic of Congo and in the Bolivarian
Republic of Venezuela.
Here
in EXCERPTS some of the diplomatic relations of the past
years:
The
Republic of Equatorial Guinea (treaty) recognized by presidential
decree the International Parliament fully as
Interogvernmental Organization with all Rights and
Diplomatic Privileges, like e.g. applicable to UN bodies.
Sao
Tome & Principe sent their former President Dr.
Pinto da Costa as Ambassador to the IPSP and introduced
diplomatic contact, he serves nowadays as Head of the
Department for Foreign Affairs of the IPSP.
The
Republic of Fiji received and
confirmed the Envoy of the International Parliament for
Safety and Peace (IPSP).
In
2001 the State of Washington, USA
introduced full contact with the IPSP.
The
Republic of Gambia received
officially the Minister Plenipoteniary of the IPSP in 2001
as well.
On
21st September 2002 the Bill of Rights of Parliament has
been officially recognized by the legislation of Ecuador
(treaty) through Antonio Posso Salgano, President of the parliament
of said
State.
During the year
2002, in occasion of the XI Conference on
security in the Mediterranean, the International
Parliament has awarded the Trophy of Peace to the
president of Guinea, Lansana Conté, appointing him
senator for life as well as general secretary.
In
2003 the Democratic Republic of
Congo introduced diplomatic contact with the IPSP and
received the Ambassador.
In
2004 the Republic of Liberia
introduced full diplomatic contact with the International
Parliament for Safety and Peace and received the
Ambassador of the IPSP.
Tadjikistan
introduced contact to the IPSP in 2005.
Moreover
the International Parliament enjoys firm support through
the Royal House of the Kingdom Of Cambodia by the former
King H.M. Norodom Sihanouk and
the present King H.M. Norodom
Sihamoni. The Prime Minister of the Royal Government H.E.
Samdech Hun Sen has been appointed Senator for Life
and Ambassador for World Peace in 2007.
Malaysia
recognized the International Parliament for Safety and
Peace in September 2007 as well and appointed a
Senator to the IPSP.
The
Governor of Ratchaburi, Thailand
issued a letter of mutual support for the IPSP in Winter
2007, too.
The
Parliament is recognized tacitly de jure by the Italian
Republic, under the Treaty of friendship between the USA
and Italy, regulated by the law of 18th June 1949, n.385,
with the recognition of the Italian constitutional Court
with sentence published in the Italian Office Gazette n.
161 of 10th July 1985 (confirmed
by the Italian Parliament in 2007); moreover it has relations of
diplomatic cooperation with the Latin American Parliament
and with other national Parliaments,
like e.g. most recently with the National
Parliament of the Republic of Moldova (treaty)
in June 2007 or
the Government of the State of Rio de
Janeiro, Brazil in
Mai 2007. |
