THE HAGUE - The Interparliamentary Kingdom Consultation (IPKO) will take place in The Hague from Tuesday 27 September to Friday 30 September 2022. During the IPKO, delegations of the Parliaments of Aruba, Curaçao and Sint Maarten and of the Netherlands, under the leadership of the chairman of the permanent committee for Kingdom Relations of the House of Representatives, Mariëlle Paul, will meet on topics that affect the countries of the Kingdom together.
The topics in this IPKO are the unsolicited advice of the Council of State of the Kingdom on the Kingdom, treaties and Union law (EU), consensus kingdom laws, a proposed Kingdom Act on Kingdom disputes, cooperation within the Kingdom and democratic deficit, and colonialism and the history of slavery.
Agenda
The consultation will start on Tuesday 27 September with an opening meeting in the plenary room of the Dutch Senate. Here the leaders of the Caribbean States delegations and the leader of the Dutch delegation, Paul Rosenmöller, will give a presentation on recent developments in the four countries.
In the afternoon the meeting will be continued in the House of Representatives, with the unsolicited advice of the Council of State of the Kingdom and the subject of Consensus Acts on the agenda. On Wednesday 28 September a presentation is planned by the Caribbean States delegations of a new proposal for the Kingdom Disputes Act. After that presentation, the topics of cooperation within the Kingdom and the democratic deficit, as well as colonialism and the history of slavery are on the agenda.
On Thursday, IPKO will make working visits to the Floriade and the Farm of the Future (WUR) on the theme of food safety and sustainability. The interparliamentary consultations will end on Friday 30 September with the adoption and signing of the appointment list and a joint press conference of the chairmen of the four delegations.
The deliberations between the delegations are largely public and can be followed live via live stream – depending on the location on the website of the Senate and the House of Representatives. After the Interparliamentary Kingdom Consultation there is a concluding press conference where the chairmen of the delegations look back on the consultation.