STANDING COMMITTEE 217 SC 05 E   Original: English NAT O   Pa rl ia me n ta ry  As s e mb l y NUMBER OF SEATS FOR THE DELEGATIONS OF ALGERIA AND MOROCCO International Secretariat     October 2005

217 SC 05 E 1 1. At  its  meeting  in  Venice,  the  President  noted  that  the  Algerian  delegation  had  requested that  its  delegation  should  consist  of  six  delegates,  rather  than  the  five  agreed  by  the  Standing Committee.    This  was  to  enable  the  delegation  to  be  balanced  between  parties  and  chambers.   The  Algerian  delegation  has  nominated  six  participants  for  the  Copenhagen  Session,  and  has again cited the difficulties of forming a delegation with fewer numbers. 2. Table   1   shows   the   populations   and   delegation   sizes   for   all   the   Associate   and Mediterranean  Associate  delegations.    This  shows  that  the  populations  of  Algeria  and  Morocco (around  32  million)  are  substantially  larger  than  those  of  other  delegations  which  have  been allocated  five  delegates  but  which  have  populations  of  less  than  ten  million.    However,  looking back  to  the  situation  in  1998  when  Poland  and  Romania  were  both  still  Associate  members, Poland’s population was about 39 million, and Romania’s about 23 million.  Both had six-person delegations.  (The populations and delegation sizes for the Associate delegations in 1998 appear in Table 2). 3. The  Standing  Committee  should  decide  whether  to  increase  the  representation  of  the Algerian  delegation  from  five  to  six,  and  -  in  view  of  the  similarity  in  size  of  the  Moroccan population – whether to increase Morocco’s representation similarly. Table 1: Associate and Mediterranean Associate Delegations: Population and Assembly delegation numbers the FYR of Macedonia 2.034 3 Armenia 3.016 3 Mauritania 3.069 3 Albania 3.130 3 Moldova 4.206 3 Croatia 4.551 3 Georgia 4.474 4 Finland 5.249 4 Jordan 5.703 4 Israel 6.725 4 Switzerland 7.252 5 Azerbaijan 8.411 5 Austria 8.189 5 Sweden 9.041 5 Algeria 32.854 5 Morocco 31.478 5 Ukraine 46.481 8 Russia 143.202 10 * Source: "L'Etat du Monde 2006"

204 SC 04 E 2 Table 2: (From “Proposal on the Representation of New Delegations [AR 326 (98) 43] presented to the Standing Committee in November 1998) Estonia 1.472 3 3 Slovenia 2.012 3 3 Latvia 2.587 3 3 FYROM 2.666 3 3 Albania 3.638 3 3 Lithuania 3.709 3 3 Moldova 4.319 3 3 Slovakia 5.370 4 4 Bulgaria 8.339 5 5 Romania 22.769 6 6 Ukraine 50.853 6 6 Russian Federation 148.000 10 10 _________________________