The meeting elected Dr. Tassana Boontong, Second Vice President of the Senate of Thailand as the President of the Meeting. The meeting then proceeded to look at gender activities of the IPU including the work of the Coordinating Committee of Women Parliamentarians, the work and recommendations of the Gender Partnership Group and recent specialized IPU meetings. It was noted that of the 130 countries and 1334 participants to the 122nd Assembly, 193 were women (28,2%). This was slightly below the desired 30%. The meeting was also informed that the delegations from Malta, Qatar, Papua New Guinea and Saudi Arabia would be reduced by one person as a result of being composed exclusively of parliamentarians of the same sex for three consecutive sessions of the Assembly.