https://en.mehrnews.com/news/146802/FM-Zarif-IPU-pres-intl-issues-bilateral-ties
Underling the significance of expanding mutual cooperation, in this meeting, the two senior officials discussed the available capacities to reinforce mutual ties as well as required measures to reduce tensions in the region.
Also on Sunday, Cuevas Barron met with Iranian President Hassan Rouhani and Parliament Speaker Ali Larijani.
The IPU President was received on Saturday at Mehrabad Airport by Seyyedeh Fatemeh Hosseini, a member of Iranian Parliament, who also serves as a member of the presiding board of Forum of Women Parliamentarians of IPU.
IPU is an organization made up of national parliaments from around the world. IPU protects and builds global democracy through political dialogue and concrete action.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inter-Parliamentary_Union
The organisation's initial objective was the arbitration of conflicts. The IPU played an important part in setting up the Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague. Over time, its mission has evolved towards the promotion of democracy and inter-parliamentary dialogue. The IPU has worked for establishment of institutions at the inter-governmental level, including the United Nations, an organization with which it cooperates and with which it has permanent observer status.
Numerous bodies have expressed interest in the possibility of transforming the IPU into a United Nations Parliamentary Assembly, among them the Committee for a Democratic UN, the German Bundestag and the Socialist International. The Liberal International also considers this as an option.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabriela_Cuevas_Barron
Cuevas has been an active and politically involved person and PAN member since 1994. She has occupied different positions inside her political party including head of the PAN in Mexico city's Miguel Hidalgo area.
From 2000 to 2003 she served as federal deputy during the LVIII Legislature; then from 2003 to 2006 she served in the Legislative Assembly of the Federal District representing the PAN.
In April 2005, she and another PAN deputy, Jorge Lara, paid 2,000 MXN in order to prevent Andrés Manuel López Obrador from being jailed as he would "become a martyr" had he gone to jail during his "desafuero".
In 2006 she was elected to serve as Jefe Delegacional of Miguel Hidalgo.
In 2009 she was elected as federal deputy at the LXI Legislature of the Mexican Congress.
In 2012 she was elected as senator at the LXII Legislature of the Mexican Congress.
On 18 October 2017, Cuevas Barron was elected as the President of the Inter-Parliamentary Union, the first female from the Americas, after formally contending with Uruguayan politician, Ivonne Passada.
In January 2018, Cuevas Barron left the National Action Party to join the left-wing National Regeneration Movement (MORENA) citing that the objectives of inclusion, pluralism and development were not met. She will pose as an independent for the rest of her term as a senator, until the inauguration of the LXIV Legislature of the Mexican Congress, where she will represent MORENA. The PAN claimed she left the party since she was not guaranteed a federal deputy spot through the proportional representation process.