October 13, 2003	Monday	Sha'aban 16, 1424

DHAKA, Oct 12: The 49th conference of the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association ended on Saturday with its members advocating new partnership for peace and prosperity and reforms of the United Nations and World Trade Organization.

Setting its tone for the new partnership, the Dhaka conference called upon all the parliamentarians and governments to develop “just societies” by making their parliaments more effective.

In the light of this year’s theme — Partnership for peace and prosperity — the conference underscored the need to include women, and the poor and small states, in the new partnership to achieve the Millennium Development Goals, and to remove the causes of global unrest.

The 50th CPA conference will take place in Ottawa next year.