The Strategy for the IPU 2012 - 2017 was adopted after a debate on the necessity to ensure that the strategy is to be considered the vision for the IPU for the period 2012 to 2017. The Secretary-General during his presentation of the IPU Strategy indicated that President Gurirab when he took up the position of the Presidency of the IPU requested the strategy for the IPU for the future. The adoption of the strategy, after a very lengthy consultation process, will serve as a legacy to President Gurirab's as his term expires at the end of the 125th IPU Assembly.