In a bid to distinguish itself from the UK Parliament and carve out its own identity, the Assembly's opening ceremony was notably an "informal" affair.
He said there was a resentment that politics was too centralised in London but he said the English identity shouldn't be reflected in an English parliament or assembly.
One year after the historic adoption of the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples by the UN General Assembly, the Inter-agency Support Group was in Paris to deliberate on the challenging goal of weaving culture and identity into development.