Creation in national Parliaments of some permanent means of liaison between members of parliament and scientists
- Author(s):
- Parliamentary Assembly
- Origin
- Assembly debate on 28th April 1961 (8th Sitting) (see Doc. 1289, Report of the Cultural Committee). Text adopted by the Assembly on 28th April 1961 (8th Sitting).
The Assembly,
Having regard to the conclusions of the European Parliamentary and Scientific Conference which met in London on 21st and 22nd March in accordance with the provisions of Order No. 165;
Re-affirming its conviction that all European Parliaments should have some permanent machinery for liaison with scientific circles, which would allow parliamentarians to be fully informed regarding current scientific questions,
1. 1. Requests its members to encourage interest, in their respective Parliaments, in regular contact between members of parliament and scientists;
2. 2. Instructs its Working Party for relations with national Parliaments to take appropriate steps, in agreement with those who took part in the conference in London, to encourage the setting up of permanent machinery for parliamentary-scientific liaison;
3. 3. Instructs its Cultural Committee to follow up the action initiated by the London Conference and by this Resolution, and in due course to take steps to arrange for a second European Parliamentary and Scientific Conference to consider progress made.
