The request by Canada to host the 127th IPU Assembly in October 2012 (it was practice for this Assembly to be held in Geneva) was discussed. Uganda would host the 126th IPU Assembly in April 2012. Canada had previously requested to host the 2011 Assembly (which would now be hosted by Panama), but had been unsuccessful as it could not guarantee that all countries would be granted visas to enter Canada. Canada had now indicated that it would grant visas to all countries to whom the United Nations would grant a visa. Furthermore, should a visa not be granted as a delegate was perceived as a security risk, Canada had undertaken to handle the matter directly with the delegate concerned. It was the position of the meeting that the conditions laid down by Canada went against the spirit of the IPU as a platform for world wide parliamentary dialogue. In addition, the conditions were contrary to the statutes of the IPU in so far as it was parliaments that determined their delegations and not individual members.