Second, I do not find any mention anywhere about old and non-progressive traditions. In many countries, the law has the equality of women and men. But the old traditions put the men a little bit ahead. Also, we should work as parliamentarians against such kind of old non-progressive traditions. In this case, we should also speak about educating the women and men to be aware about such kind of tradition,

Third, which is the last page, you are speaking about calibrating between parliamentarians, and you nominate the African-Middle Eastern region. I think we should say, "and all over the world", not only the African-Middle Eastern region, because you know that also there are some efforts done in America also. So it is better to put that as "all over the world."

Thank you, Madam Chair.

RAPPORTEUR GENERAL (HON. NAFSIAH MBOI) :

Thank you Dr. Ghassan Tayara. I think we all agree that your first comment is quite relevant. What we have put in there, and we would welcome concrete formulation and where to put it.

As you have seen in this Resolution on page 2, the last paragraph, it is really devoted to them: "We also call attention to the fact that these goals will be unattainable without peace and justice. Women and children, always the foremost victims of war and civil strife will continue to suffer disproportionately from social instability and continuing poverty." Maybe, it is there that you would like to put a sentence that we should work together and help for peace. Thank you.

The second one, maybe some other parliamentarians would like to comment on this.

Actually, the deliberations and the preparation for the meetings in Cairo, as well as in Beijing and Copenhagen, what we are saying is, we know that these exist. We should not always blame everything on the man, but let us look forward. It will not help us if you always keep looking backward, blaming the old non-progressive traditions. We know it is there, but we have already pledged ourselves in Cairo, in Beijing and Copenhagen that now we will go forward men and women together. So that is one reason why we did not again and again put the blame on old traditions et cetera, but pledged ourselves to work for a better future.

If you honorable Dr. Ghassan Tayara and other members will agree, I think we should not put it again here. Would you like to comment on that?

HON. MEENA PANDEY (NEPAL) :

I would like to see this title abortions must be allowed, but we should make one point: before considering an abortion, we must take into account not getting the abortion be-cause of the time factor. After three months, we should not allow the abortion right because the child will be killed.