Sponsors: Nigeria Permanent Mission to the United Nations; Campaign to Defend the Right to a Secret Ballot (CDRSB), 27 Old Gloucester Street, London WC1N 3XX.
Present: Dr Nilsen, Chairman of the meeting and Coordinator, CDRSB; Ms Muxworthy, CDRSB; Dr Wigwe, Minister, Nigeria Permanent Mission to UN; Francois Oubida, First Counsellor, Burkina Faso Permanent Mission to UN; Francisco Monge, Head of Elections, El Salvador Permanent Mission of El Salvador to UN; Massimo Marotti, First Counsellor, Permanent Mission of Italy to UN; Fernando Manhica, First Secretary and Elections Officer, Permanent Mission of Mozambique to UN; Zeynep Akalin, Adviser, Permanent Mission of Turkey to UN; Ambassador Valerie Kuchinsky, Permanent Mission of Ukraine to UN; Katherine Srovner, Intern, UN Associations;
Apologies: UN Secretary General Kofi Annan; Professor Judith Mbula Bahemuka, Ambassador Kenya Permanent Mission to UN; Annelies Van der Heiden, Ambassador's Office, Royal Netherlands Embassy, London; Anne Gacquerelle, Personal Assistant to the Ambassador of France to the UN; Michael Howard MP; David Davis MP; Gerald Howarth MP; Sir Malcolm Rifkind MP; Dr Julian Lewis MP; Oliver Heald MP; John Redwood MP; Mark Field MP; Dr Charles Tannock MEP; Godfrey Bloom MEP.
Conference Report Requests: HE Professor Judith Mbula Bahemuka, Ambassador Kenya Permanent Mission to the UN; Pavel Shidlovsky, Belarus Embassy, Washington DC; Claude Moraes British Labour MEP; Bela Szombati, Ambassador of the Republic of Hungary, London; Charles Trussel, Namibian High Commission, London; Amin Hassan, Egyptian Embassy, London; Sam Younger, Chairman British Electoral Commission.
Acknowledgements, apologies and report requests regarding the 1st April 2005 postponed conference arrangements and the 10th January 2006 Tallahassee Capitol Building preparatory meeting arrangements:
HRH Prince of Wales; 139 British MPs and MEPs from all the main UK political parties including Ministers and Shadow Ministers; Lord Norman Tebbit; Andrew Turnbull, Head of the British Civil Service; 7 British local electoral registration officers; Rebecca Vigil-Giron, President, US National Association of State Secretaries, Lieutenant Governor, New Mexico; Jeb Bush, Governor, Florida; 4 American elected representatives; Representatives from the following diplomatic missions in New York, Washington DC, and London: Azerbaijan; Australia; Barbados; Canada; Colombia; Denmark; France; Gambia; Germany; Ghana; India; Iraq; Italy; Jordan; Kazakhstan; Luxembourg; Madagascar; Nigeria; Norway; Palestine; Poland; Saudi Arabia; South Africa; Sri Lanka; Taiwan; Turkey; Ukraine; United Kingdom; United States; Venezuela; Zambia.
Introduction
Conference Preparations
IFES not ‘IFES’
Conference Proceedings: Opening Remarks by the Chair
Discussion
Historical Analysis: Common Sense and Democracy
Impediments to Progress
Britain
America
France
Totalitarianism
Conclusion
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