28th Conference of Speakers and Presiding Officers of the Commonwealth (CSPOC) New Delhi, 14-16 January 2026
New Delhi, 12 January 2026: Parliament of India is hosting the 28th Conference of Speakers and Presiding Officers of the Commonwealth (CSPOC) at New Delhi from 14-16 January 2026
.Shri Narendra Modi, Hon’ble Prime Minister of India, has kindly agreed to inaugurate this Conference on 15 January 2026 in the historic Central Hall of Samvidhan Sadan, Parliament House Complex, New Delhi at 1030 AM.
Hon’ble Prime Minister had also inaugurated the 9th G20 Parliamentary Speakers (P20) Summit, the last inter-parliamentary conference that the Parliament of India had hosted in October 2023.
Lok Sabha Speaker Shri Om Birla is the Chairperson of this Conference.
Overview of CSPOC
The Conference of Speakers and Presiding Officers of Commonwealth (CSPOC) was created in 1969 as an initiative of then Speaker of the House of Commons of Canada, the Honourable Lucien Lamoureux.
Since its inception, Canada has provided CSPOC with a secretariat to support its activities.
CSPOC brings together Speakers and Presiding Officers of 53 national parliaments (list enclosed) of sovereign states of the Commonwealth.
CSPOC is an independent group with no formal affiliation with the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association (CPA), the Commonwealth Secretariat or the Commonwealth Heads of Government (CHOGM). However, its membership is the same as that of CPA.
The stated aims of this Conference are to:
Maintain, foster, and encourage impartiality and fairness on the part of Speakers and Presiding Officers of Parliaments.
Promote knowledge and understanding of parliamentary democracy in its various forms; and
Develop parliamentary institutions.