Date
and Venue:
15th February 2006, United Nations, New York.
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.
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