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Asian
Regional Workshop of Non-Governmental Process
for
the Community of Democracies
On October 5th and 6th, 2004, the Taiwan Foundation for Democracy
(www.TFD.org.tw) held
the Asian Regional Workshop for the Non-Governmental Process
for the Community of Democracies in Taipei, Taiwan.
The workshop
began with a speech by the president of the TFD, Dr. Michael
Kau, and a presentation by Ms. Silvana Lauzán on behalf
of the Executive Secretariat.
Around
35 members of NGOs, political parties, and political foundations
of nine countries from the region attended the meeting. The
Executive Secretariat was represented by Ms. Silvana Lauzán.
Based on the democratic deficits identified in Lisbon in January
of 2004, the proposals addressed the problems linked to the
following challenges:
- fight
against corruption (political corruption, bureaucratic corruption,
the social environment of corruption);
- governance
systems and accountability (the autonomy of the institutions,
local government, national security);
- civil
society and public affairs (civil society development);
- and,
finally, the development of democracy in closed societies.
This final
document with the proposals, as well as the other final regional
documents, will be presented to the Governments in the Ministerial
meeting that will take place in May 2005 in Santiago, Chile,
and they will also be compiled and published by the Executive
Secretariat in 2005.
For more
information about the program, the list of participants or
the Non-Governmental Process for the Community of Democracies,
please contact the Executive Secretariat at: santiago2005@participa.cl.
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