On strategic objective 1 (facilitate parliamentary cooperation) and strategic objective 7 (modernize the IPU) that the Executive Committee members had a number of concerns. To ensure progress it was agreed that further consultation on the type of IPU that members would like to see in future would be undertaken. It was hoped that this would be a consensus building process. After this process had been completed a decision on the desirability of an international convention on the IPU could be taken.