Australian Greens, CC BY-NC-ND 2.0
There should be established for the prevalence and happiness of humankind a representative assembly, a global parliament, for the people of the Earth, based on the principle of one person, one vote, one value.
Bob Brown, Environmentalist and Australian Senator, 2012
Swaniti Initiative
For over a century, parliamentarians from all over the world have worked together to uphold democracy, and to advance peace, international law, disarmament, and many other issues. The time has come to give them a firm and strong role in deliberations and decision-making at the United Nations by establishing a UN Parliamentary Assembly.
Najma Heptulla, Indian parliamentarian, Honorary President of the Inter-Parliamentary Union, and Vice-President of the Bharatiya Janata Party, 2012
© Sangay Khandu
It appears only natural that the UN subscribes to the democratic principles it has so far stood to advocate, both in spirit and form. With a world parliament at the helm of the UN, the real benefits of a truly democratically structured institution can be realized for all member states, big or small, through the peoples’ mandated representatives directly. It is time for a UN Parliamentary Assembly.
Sangay Khandu, Member of Parliament, Bhutan, 2012
The Mercosur Parliament supports the establishment of a UN Parliamentary Assembly as a means to create a citizen-based democratic world order. As a regional international parliament we very well understand the challenges but also the tremendous benefits that this endeavour entails.
Ignacio Mendoza Unzaín, President of the Parliament of Mercosur (Mercosur trade bloc), 2012
© Heikki Patomäki
Global crises require global solutions. Occasional summits, intergovernmental agreements and international cooperation are not enough. For instance, the globalization of finance requires new functional and democratic institutions as well as an elected body capable of coordinating their activities and determining the contents of international law, a world parliament.
Heikki Patomäki, Professor of World Politics at the University of Helsinki, Finland, 2012
Syrian National Council, CC BY-SA 2.0
The United Nations is dysfunctional and unable to act. I strongly support the creation of a democratically elected UN Parliamentary Assembly. This is what is desperately needed to give the world's citizens a true voice.
Abdulbaset Sieda, President of the Syrian National Council in exile in Sweden, 2012
© Ivone Soares
Mozambique should support the creation of a global parliamentary assembly at the United Nations. As a young parliamentarian from Africa, I support this wonderful initiative. We are in a 'global village' where each nation and every world citizen should be invited to do and say something for a better world.
Ivone Soares, Deputy President of the Commission on International Relations of the Parliament of Mozambique, 2012
Office of Rita Süssmuth
Germany and Europe should support the establishment of a Parliamentary Assembly at the United Nations.
Rita Süssmuth, Former President of the German Parliament (from 1988 to 1998), 2012
CEUNPA
We in India should support the creation of a global parliamentary assembly at the United Nations. Of course a lot of details need to be investigated. Still the government of India could express at the UN General Assembly that, in principle, it regards the proposal with favor.
Shashi Tharoor, Member of Parliament from India, former UN Under-Secretary General for Public Information, 2012
© Cecilia Wikström
A parliamentary assembly would strengthen the UN's democratic foundation and at the same time provide new perspectives on the challenges of tomorrow.
Cecilia Wikström, Member of the European Parliament from Sweden, 2012
© Ben Cardin
To the extent that the establishment of a UN Parliamentary Assembly would bring more transparency, oversight and effective governance to the Secretariat and other structures of the United Nations, I would support its establishment.
Benjamin Cardin, U.S. Senator, 2011
