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23-24 May 2005

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TEL AVIV AND RAMALLAH - For a Middle East in peace

 

23-24 MAY 2005

LIST OF PARTICIPANTS 

 

Socialist International	António Guterres
	Luis Ayala
FULL MEMBER PARTIES
ANGOLA
MPLA	Paulo Teixeira Jorge
	Joao Salvador dos Santos Neto
	Joao Iambeno Gimolieca
	Francisco Amélia Ngonga
	Alice Chivaca
	Adélia de Carvalho
ARGENTINA
Socialist Party, PS	Maria Elena Barbagelata
	Guillermo Goldstein
ARMENIA
ARF Armenian Socialist Party	Mario Nalpatian
	Hagop Sevan
	Manuel Hasassian
	Georgette Avakian
AUSTRALIA
Australian Labour Party, ALP	Sue West
	Tara Moriarty
AUSTRIA
Social Democratic Party of Austria, SPÖ	Albrecht K. Konecny
	Christine Muttonen
BELGIUM
Socialist Party, PS	Etienne Godin
BOLIVIA
Revolutionary Left Movement,
MIR-New Majority	Oscar Eid
BULGARIA
Bulgarian Social Democrats	Nadya Radeva
	Iglika Ivanova
	Emil Stefanov
BULGARIA
Bulgarian Socialist Party, BSP	Georgy Pirinski
COLOMBIA
Liberal Party of Colombia, PLC	Horacio Serpa Uribe
	Juan Fernando Cristo
COSTA RICA
National Liberation Party, PLN	Rolando Araya
CÔTE D’IVOIRE
Ivorian Popular Front, FPI	Pascal Affi N’Guessan
	Ernest Zabo
	Killi Z. Angeline
	Mousso Epse Assouma Epi
	Noe Christian Maurice
	Nogvou Assoh Gisele
CROATIA
Social Democratic Party, SDP	Mirjana Feric-Vac
	Zoran Milanovic
CYPRUS
Movement of Social Democrats, EDEK	Marcia Alexaki
CZECH REPUBLIC
Czech Social Democratic Party, CSSD	Jan Hamacek
	Jan Kavan
DENMARK
Social Democratic Party	Jens Christiansen
	Steen Christensen
	Anne Sofie Allarp
DOMINICAN REPUBLIC
Dominican Revolutionary Party, PRD	Peggy Cabral
	Fausto Liz
	Fernando Nuñez
FINLAND
Finnish Social Democratic Party, SDP	Eero Heinäluoma
	Tuula Lampinen
	Juhu Peltonen
FRANCE
Socialist Party, PS	Maurice Braud
GERMANY
Social Democratic Party of Germany, SPD	Christoph Zöpel
	Achim Post
	Markus Engels
	Katrin Werblow
GREAT BRITAIN
The Labour Party	Ian Stewart
	Rachel Cowburn
GREECE
Panhellenic Socialist Movement, PASOK	George Papandreou
	Paulina Lampsa
	Dollis Dimitrios
	Antigoni Dimitradi
	Constandinos Stefanidis
	Petroula Nteledimou
	Ziogas Nicolas
HUNGARY
Hungarian Socialist Party, MSzP	Imre Szekeres
	Tamas Bazsa
	Alexandra Dobolyi
	Zita Gurmai
ISRAEL
Israel Labour Party	In Tel Aviv
	Shimon Peres
	Colette Avital
	Ghaleb Majadle
	Rafi Elul
	Abraham Hatzamri
	Micha Harish
	Israel Gat
	Nurit Yardeni-Levi
	Shay Shoshani
	Dan Shalem
	Guy Spigelman
	Dov Peer
	In Ramallah
	Colette Avital
	Ephraim Sneh
	Ghaleb Majadle
	Israel Gat
	Nurit Yardeni-Levi
	Shay Shoshani
	Rani Feingold
	Moshe Waldman
	Igal Tzachon
	Guy Rottenberg
ISRAEL
Yachad Party	In Tel Aviv
	Yossi Beilin
	Avashalom Vilan
	Sheva Friedman
	Ester Levanon Mordoch
	Yaron Shoor
	Dafna Sharfman
	Neomi Hazan
	Roby Nathanson
	Tamar Golan
	In Ramallah
	Yossi Beilin
	Avashalom Vilan
	Sheva Friedman
	Yaron Shoor
	Roby Nathanson
ITALY
Democrats of the Left, DS	Massimo D’Alema
	Piero Fassino
	Luciano Vecchi
	Roberto Cuillo
	Fiorinda Ghilardotti
	Nicola Manca
ITALY
Italian Democratic Socialists, SDI	Ugo Intini
	Luca Cefisi
	Roberto Viletti
	Francesco Mosca
	Gianluca Quadrana
MALI
African Party for Solidarity and Justice,
ADEMA/PASJ	Boubacar Bah
MALTA
Malta Labour Party	Joe Mifsud
MEXICO
Party of Democratic Revolution, PRD	Saúl Escobar Toledo
	Cuauhtémoc Sandoval Ramíez
MEXICO
Institutional Revolutionary Party, PRI	Samuel Aguilar Solís
	José Murat
NETHERLANDS
Labour Party, PvdA	Jeltje van Nieuwenhoven
	Marije Laffeber
	Bert Koenders
	Floris Beemster
NICARAGUA
Sandinista National Liberation Front,
FSLN	Samuel Santos
	Margarita Zapata
	Isabel Lujan
NORWAY
Norwegian Labour Party, DNA	Thorbjørn Jagland
	Kathrine Raadim
	Odd Kristian Reme
PERU
Peruvian Aprista Party, PAP	Mauricio Mulder
	Gerardo Morris
	Javier Ruiz
POLAND
Democratic Left Alliance, SLD	Marek Dyduch
	Jacek Zdrojewski
	Szymon Stellmaszyk
PORTUGAL
Socialist Party, PS	José Lello
	Paulo Pisco
	Maria João Rodrigues
	Sergio Alves
ROMANIA
Democratic Party, PD	Monica Iacob-Ridzi
ROMANIA
Social Democratic Party, PSD	Adrian Nastase
	Victor Bostinaru
SENEGAL
Socialist Party, PS	Ousmane Tanor Dieng
	Aminata Mbengue Ndiaye
SLOVAKIA
SMER - Social Democracy	Robert Fico
	Lubomir Petrak
	Juraj Horvath
SOUTH AFRICA
African National Congress, ANC	Aziz Pahad
	Kopeng Obed Bapela
SPAIN
Spanish Socialist Workers’ Party, PSOE	Manuel Chaves
	Trinidad Jiménez
	Bernardino León
	Felipe González
	María Isabel Montaño
	Silivia Morata
	Gregorio Martínez
	María Irigoyen
SWEDEN
Swedish Social Democratic Party, SAP	Marita Ulvskog
	Leif Jakobsson
	Mariam Sherifay
	Ann Linde
	Ingalill Bjärtén
	Conny Fredriksson
	Manuel Ferrer
SWITZERLAND
Social Democratic Party of Switzerland	Carlo Sommaruga
	Jean-Philippe Jeannerat
TUNISIA
Constitutional Democratic Assembly, RCD	Ahmed Habbassi
	Hamoudi Hadi
TURKEY
Republican People’s Party, CHP	Deniz Baykal
	Onur Öymen
	Petek Gürbüz
VENEZUELA
Democratic Action, AD	Alfredo Coronil
	Alexandra Machado
	Ixora Rojas
	María Tenorio
	Lyl Lee
CONSULTATIVE PARTIES
PALESTINE
Fatah	In Tel-Aviv
	Imad Shaqqur
	Ilan Halevi
	Salwa Hdeib
	In Ramallah
	Nabeel Shaath
	Sharif Masha’l (Abbas Zaki)
	Imad Shaqqur
	Mufid Abed-Rabbu
	Ahmed soboh
	Adnan Samara
	Ilan Halevi
	Hisham Mustafa
	Salwa Hdeib
	Fadwa Al-Bargouthi
	Dalal Salameh
	Samia Bamieh
	Hadija Habashneh Abu Ali
	Hussein Abdel Khaleq
	Taisir Jaradat
PHILIPPINES
Akbayan, Citizens’ Action Party	Rolando Llamas
SERBIA AND MONTENEGRO
Democratic Party, Serbia	Vuk Jeremic
	Trivo Indjic
	Natasa Vuckovic
	Milos Jevtic
	Dusan Spasojevic
SERBIA AND MONTENEGRO
Social Democratic Party of Serbia	Natasa Milojevic
UKRAINE
Socialist Party of Ukraine, SPU	Aleksandr Moroz
	Vitaliy Shybko
UKRAINE
Social Democratic Party of Ukraine, SDPU	Yury Buzdugan
	Olena Skomoroshchenko
	Oleh Bilorus
VENEZUELA
Movement for Socialism, MAS	Alfredo Chaparro
	Carla Gazzani
OBSERVER PARTIES
BULGARIA
Bulgarian Social Democracy	Krastyo Petkov
IRAN
Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan, PDKI	Khosrow Abdollahi Mandolkani
JORDAN
Jordanian Democratic Party of the Left, JDPL	Omar Abu Laban
TURKEY
Democratic People’s Party, DEHAP	Tuncer Bakirhan
	Nazmi Gür
	Firat Anli
	Faik Yagizay
FRATERNAL ORGANISATIONS
International Union of Socialist Youth,
IUSY	Fikile Mbalula
	Enzo Amendola
	Adrianos Kyriakidsis
	Akos Komassy
	Ania Skrzypek
	Estelle Göger
	Fidel Romano
	Giacomo Filibeck
	Laila Naraghi
	Matilda Sisättö
	Maurice Classens
	Silje Rygland
	Sunshine Ludder
	Eran Mozel
	Fahmi Zaherir
	Michele Mazzerano
	Yaser Arafat Qareen
	Adeeb Salim
Socialist International Women, SIW	Pia Locatelli
	Marlène Haas
ASSOCIATED ORGANISATIONS
International League of Religious Socialists,
ILRS	Andrew Hammer
	Pär-Axel Sahlberg
National Democratic Institute, NDI	Ghadeer Dajani
	Damien Murphy
Socialist Group at the
European Parliament	Pasqualina Napoletano
	Hannes Swoboda
	David Harley
	Marcel Mersch
Party of European Socialists, PES	Philip Cordery
	Yonnec Polet
World Labour Zionist Movement, WLZM	Brigette Bettane
GUEST PARTIES AND ORGANISATIONS
CHINA
Communist Party of China	Zhang Zhijun
	Liao Dong
	Tian Duanhui
	Xu Bin
Friedrich Ebert Foundation, FES	Ernst Kerbusch
	Christiane Kesper
	Hermann Bünz
	Michéle Auga
SI Secretariat	Latifa Perry
	Gabriela Shepherd
	Harriet Ogborn
	Sophie Thérouanne
	Taren Brockhouse
	Clare Warde
	Fred Smith

TEL AVIV AND RAMALLAH - For a Middle East in peace

 

23-24 MAY 2005

On 23-24 May in Tel Aviv and Ramallah, the Socialist International held a meeting of its Council, with the participation of leaders and representatives from its member parties and organisations from around the world. (List of participants)

The Council, which convenes every six months, met on this occasion in the Middle East to underline the International's commitment to the search for peace in the region and to encourage Israelis and Palestinians to move forward along the path of dialogue and negotiation at a crucial juncture for the region's future.

Under the main theme "For a Middle East in peace, with political and economic democracy: the social democratic vision", the Council meeting, hosted by the Israel Labour Party, the Israeli Yachad Party, and the Palestinian Fatah, all members of the International, held two sessions, one in Tel Aviv and the other in Ramallah.

The session in Tel Aviv was opened on the morning of Monday 23 with contributions from Shimon Peres, Leader of the Labour Party and Deputy Prime Minister of Israel; Imad Shakur, Member of the Palestinian National Council; Yossi Beilin, Leader of the Yachad Party from Israel; and SI President António Guterres. A number of leaders from Socialist International member parties participated in the debate on the main theme. (List of speakers, Monday 23 May, morning session)

On the afternoon of the first day, the Council received a report from the Chair of the SI Committee on the Economy, Social Cohesion and the Environment, Christoph Zöpel (Germany, SPD), and the position papers 'Financial and Economic Issues, The Bretton Woods Institutions and Global Economic Governance' and 'Trade and Social Rights', prepared by the Committee, were approved, as were the following declarations: 'Socialist International's Second Semi-Annual Review on Democratic Governance for Sustainable Development in a Global Society'; 'Millennium Development Goals', and 'World Summit on the Information Society'. A position paper -'Reforming the United Nations for a New Global Agenda' - prepared by a special Working Group established by the last SI Congress was adopted, following a presentation by Maria João Rodrigues (Portugal, PS). A resolution on the establishment of a global network of parliamentarians from SI member parties, an area of work mandated to the SI Secretary General, was approved.

The President of Israel, Moshe Katsav, delivered a special address to the Council meeting and welcomed the presence of the International, acknowledging a climate of expectation with regard to latest developments in the Middle East.

The afternoon session ended with a report of the Secretary General of the Socialist International, Luis Ayala, detailing the activities and the focus of attention of the organisation during the last six month period.

In the evening, in Ramallah, the delegates to the Council had a special meeting with the President of the Palestinian National Authority, Mahmoud Abbas, who thanked the International for its continuing involvement in the search for peace in the Middle East.

On Tuesday 24, the session in Ramallah was opened with addresses by Nabil Shaath, Deputy and Acting Prime Minister of the Palestinian National Authority; Abbas Zaki on behalf of Fatah; Avshalom Vilan, MK, of the Yachad Party; Colette Avital, MK, of the Israel Labour Party; and, SI President António Guterres. Participants continued the discussions of the previous day in Tel Aviv on the main theme. (List of speakers, Tuesday 24 May)

At the end of the debates, a resolution on democracy and peace in the Middle East was introduced by Thorbjørn Jagland (Norway, DNA) on behalf of the SI Middle East Committee which he chairs, and was unanimously adopted.

In other decisions taken, the Council agreed to recommend the upgrade of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, PUK, Iraq, and of the Democratic Party, Serbia,of Serbia and Montenegro to full membership in the International, and of the Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan , PDKI, Iran, and the Assembly of Democratic Forces, RFD, of Mauritania to consultative status. In accordance with the SI's statutes, the Council elected George Papandreou, Leader of the Panhellenic Socialist Movement, Pasok, Greece; Mohamed El-Yazghi, First Secretary of the Socialist Union of Popular Forces, USFP, Morocco, and Horacio Serpa of the Liberal Party of Colombia as Vice-Presidents of the Socialist International, to occupy positions that had become vacant since the last Congress.