The Executive Committee would recommend to the Governing Council that Niger (which had ceased to function as a parliament) and Somalia (which was three years in arrears in the payment of its contributions) be suspended in terms of Article 4 of the Statutes of the IPU. In addition, Liberia which was also in arrears with its contributions, but for less than three years, would only be allowed to send to two delegates to the Assembly and would have no voting rights.