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Socialist International Meeting of the Council of the Socialist International Geneva, 29-30 June 2007 LIST OF PARTICIPANTS Socialist International Luis Ayala FULL MEMBER PARTIES ALBANIA Social Democratic Party, PSD Skënder Gjinushi Teodor Osoja ALBANIA Socialist Party of Albania, SPA Arta Dade ALGERIA Socialist Forces Front, FFS Hocine Ait Ahmed Mohand Cherifi Karim Baloul ANDORRA Social Democratic Party of Andorra, PS Jaume Bartumeu Cassany Alain Mateu Marian Sanchiz Rego ANGOLA MPLA Paulo T. Jorge Manuel Pedro Chaves Francisca Amelia Ngonga Joao Neto ARGENTINA Socialist Party, PS Rubén Giustiniani ARMENIA ARF Armenian Socialist Party Mario Nalpatian Armen Rustamyan ARUBA People’s Electoral Movement, MEP Hyacintho Rudolfo Croes AUSTRALIA Australian Labor Party, ALP Sue West AUSTRIA Social Democratic Party of Austria, SPÖ Andreas Schieder Maria Jonas BELGIUM Socialist Party, PS Etienne Godin BOSNIA & HERZEGOVINA Social Democratic Party of Bosnia and Herzegovina, SDP BiH Svetozar Pudaric BULGARIA Bulgarian Social Democrats, PBSD Boujka Loukitch Violina Kordeva BULGARIA Bulgarian Socialist Party, BSP Kristian Vigenin Siyana Fudulova Nevena Aleksieva CAMEROON Social Democratic Front, SDF John Fru Ndi Joshua Osih CANADA New Democratic Party, NDP/NPD Anne McGrath CHILE Party for Democracy, PPD Elizabeth Rubio CHILE Radical Social Democratic Party, PRSD Ricardo Navarrete COLOMBIA Liberal Party of Colombia, PLC Horacio Serpa COSTA RICA National Liberation Party, PLN Rolando Araya Kyra de la Rosa Alvaro CÔTE D’IVOIRE Ivorian Popular Front, FPI Pascal Affi N’Guessan Adou Assoa Angeline Zilahonon Kili CROATIA Social Democratic Party, SDP Mirjana Feric-Vac CYPRUS Movement of Social Democrats, EDEK Yiannakis L. Omirou Marcia Alexaki CZECH REPUBLIC Czech Social Democratic Party, CSSD Katerina Prudkova DENMARK Social Democratic Party Steen Christensen Marie Traasdahl Møller DOMINICAN REPUBLIC Dominican Revolutionary Party, PRD Ramón Alburquerque Peggy Cabral Miguel Vargas Maldonado Fausto Ruiz Jesus Vasquez Pedro Alegria Antonio De Leon Ulises Rodriguez Aquiles Ledesma Pedro Hache Fernando Nunez Wilfredo Alemany Angela de Vargas Alexis de Hache Pedro Guerrero Peralta Eva de Alegria Marisela Nuñez ECUADOR Democratic Left Party, PID Alfredo Ortega Maldonado Oswaldo Molestina Zavala EGYPT National Democratic Party, NDP Mohamed Abdullah EQUATORIAL GUINEA Convergence for Social Democracy, CPDS Celestino Bacale Obiang Wenceslao Mongoso Alo FINLAND Finnish Social Democratic Party, SDP Eero Heinäluoma Pertti Paasio Tuula Lampinen FRANCE Socialist Party, PS Bernard Soulage Maurice Braud Karim Pakzad Alain Chenal GERMANY Social Democratic Party of Germany, SPD Achim Post Christoph Zöpel GREAT BRITAIN The Labour Party Mike Griffiths Rachel Cowburn GREECE Panhellenic Socialist Movement, PASOK Paulina Lampsa Antigoni Dimitriadi Theodoros Tsikas HUNGARY Hungarian Social Democratic Party, MSzDP László Kapolyi HUNGARY Hungarian Socialist Party, MSzP Alexandra Dobolyi Zita Gurmai Yanis Latoudis Vilmos Szabo IRAQ Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, PUK Jalal Talabani Hikmat Muhammad Karim Sarko Mahmood Ahmad Barwari ISRAEL Israel Labour Party Colette Avital Ephraim Sneh Peter Tsafrir ISRAEL Meretz-Yachad Party Yossi Beilin Roby Nathanson Yonatan Touval ITALY Democrats of the Left, DS Massimo D’Alema Luciano Vecchi Francesca D’Ulisse Fabio Maccione Federica Mariotti ITALY Italian Democratic Socialists, SDI Roberto Villetti Ugo Intini Luca Cefisi Gianluca Quadrana LATVIA Latvian Social Democratic Workers’ Party, LSDSP Dainis Ivans LEBANON Progressive Socialist Party, PSP Walid Jumblatt Zaher Raad LITHUANIA Lithuanian Social Democratic Party, LSDP Gediminas Kirkilas Mindaugas Jurkynas Dziuljeta Ziugzdiené Nemina Pumprickaité Lina Terra Edgaras Navickas FYR MACEDONIA Social Democratic Union of Macedonia, SDSM Igor Ivanovski MAURITIUS Mauritius Labour Party Devanand Virahsawmy MEXICO Party of Democratic Revolution, PRD Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas Cuauhtémoc Sandoval Ramírez MEXICO Institutional Revolutionary Party, PRI Beatriz Paredes Gustavo Carvajal Moreno Olivia Calzada Laura Garcia Rafael Gutierrez MONGOLIA Mongolian People’s Revolutionary Party, MPRP Odonchimed Luvsan Erdenee Ochir MONTENEGRO Social Democratic Party of Montenegro, SDPM Ranko Krivokapic Jelena Djurovic MOROCCO Socialist Union of Popular Forces, USFP Mohamed Elyazghi Aissa Ouardighi Aicha Belarbi El Hassane Bouqentar Abderrahmane El Amrani Mohamed Benabdelkader El Houcine Kafouni Amina Benlouahidy Ali Ghanbouri NEPAL Nepali Congress Party Sushil Koirala NETHERLANDS Labour Party, PvdA Jeltje van Nieuwenhoven Marije Laffeber Zita Schellekens NICARAGUA Sandinista National Liberation Front, FSLN Samuel Santos Lopez Margarita Zapata NIGER Party for Democracy and Socialism of Niger, PNDS Mahamadou Issoufou NORWAY Norwegian Labour Party, DNA Thorbjørn Jagland Jonas Gahr Støre Raymond Johansen Kathrine Raadim PAKISTAN Pakistan People’s Party, PPP Benazir Bhutto Raja Parvez Ashraf Aftab Sahahban Mirani Mian Misbah-ur-Rehman Belum Hasnain Mehrunnisa Afridi PANAMA Democratic Revolutionary Party, PRD Darío Fernández POLAND Democratic Left Alliance, SLD Tadeusz Iwinski Liwiusz Laska Anna Skrzypek PORTUGAL Socialist Party, PS Paulo Pisco ROMANIA Social Democratic Party, PSD Mircea Geoana Victor Bostinaru SAN MARINO Party of Socialists and Democrats Giuseppe Maria Morganti Claudio Felici SENEGAL Socialist Party, PS Ousmane Tanor Dieng Jacques Baudin Modou Sarr SLOVAKIA SMER — Social Democracy Katarina Nevedalova SOUTH AFRICA African National Congress, ANC Farida Mohamed SPAIN Spanish Socialist Workers’ Party, PSOE Elena Valenciano Juan Fernando López Miguel Angel Martínez Javier Moreno María Muñiz Orestes Suárez SWEDEN Swedish Social Democratic Party, SAP Göran Persson Lena Sommestad Barbro Holmberg Ann Linde Martin Sandgren SWITZERLAND Social Democratic Party of Switzerland Moritz Leuenberger Pierre-Yves Maillard Carlo Sommaruga Jean Ziegler Peter Hug TUNISIA Constitutional Democratic Assembly, RCD Hédi M’Henni Sadok Fayala TURKEY Republican People’s Party, CHP Deniz Baykal Omur Öymen Petek Gürbüz URUGUAY Socialist Party of Uruguay, PSU Manuel Laguarda Fischetti VENEZUELA Democratic Action, AD Maurice Poler Víctor Bolívar Luis Achiles Moreno Guillermo Miguelena Reinaldo Figueredo Elsy Palacios CONSULTATIVE PARTIES AZERBAIJAN Social Democratic Party of Azerbaijan, SDPA Araz Alizadeh BOSNIA & HERZEGOVINA The Alliance of Independent Social Democrats, SNSD Milorad Dodik Zeljka Cvijanovic Arie Livne BURUNDI Frodebu Angelo Barampama Daphrose Ntarataze GHANA National Democratic Congress, NDC Kwabena Agyei Johnson Asiedu Nketia Bafour Kissiedu Jemina De Sosoo MALI Assembly for Mali, RPM Toumani Djimé Diallo MONTENEGRO Democratic Party of Socialists of Montenegro, DPS Daliborka Pejovic Aleksandar Bogdanovic PALESTINE Fatah Mahmood Abbas Ahmad Qorela Abdallah Al-Frangi Yasser Abed Rabbo Nabeel Abu Rudenah Anis Al Qaq Mohammad Abu Kush Ilan Halevi Tayseer Ajouri Abed Alkareem Ewaida PHILIPPINES Akbayan, Citizens’ Action Party Ronaldo Llamas RUSSIAN FEDERATION Social Democratic Party of Russia, SDPR Vladimir Kishenin SERBIA Democratic Party, DS Milos Jevtic Mirjana Cvijanovic UKRAINE Socialist Party of Ukraine, SPU Olexander Moroz Vitaliy Shybko Yaroslav Mendus UKRAINE Social Democratic Party of Ukraine, SDPU Yury Buzdugan Olena Skomoroshchenko VENEZUELA Movement for Socialism, MAS Felipe Mujica Alfredo Chaparro Valia de Mujica Carla Gazzani Jose Antonio Castro OBSERVER PARTIES BULGARIA Bulgarian Social Democracy, BSD Polly Karastoyanova IRAN Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan, PDKI Khosrow Abdollahi Shikofek Ghobadi Parwez Zabihi Adel Eliassi MAURITANIA Assembly of Democratic Forces, RFD Ahmed Ould Daddah Tidiane Diouwara TURKEY Democratic Society Party, DTP Firat Anli Fayik Yagizay Socialist International Secretariat Latifa Perry Harriet Ogborn Gabriela Shepherd Sophie Thérouanne Fred Smith Maren Weege Claudio Herrera FRATERNAL ORGANISATIONS International Falcon Movement/ Socialist Educational International, IFM/SEI Tamsin Pearce International Union of Socialist Youth, IUSY Yvonne O’Callaghan Jacinda Ardern Eliza Politi Socialist International Women, SIW Pia Locatelli Marlène Haas Chantal Kambiwa Nadya Radeva ASSOCIATED ORGANISATIONS International League of Religious Socialists, ILRS Andrew Hammer National Democratic Institute for International Affairs, NDI Ivan Doherty Socialist Group in the European Parliament Jan Marinus Wiersma Party of European Socialists, PES Philip Cordery Yonnec Polet INDIVIDUAL GUESTS Juan Somavía, Director General, International Labour Organisation, ILO Ricardo Lagos, special envoy of the UN Secretary General on Climate change, former President of Chile Kemal Dervis, Administrator, United Nations Development Programme Sergey Glaziev, deputy of the State Duma of the Russian Federation GUEST PARTIES AND ORGANISATIONS: AFGHANISTAN National Congress of Afghanistan, CAN Najibullah Salam BRASIL Workers’ Party, PT Murilo Vieira Kommiski BURMA National League for Democracy, NLD Tint Swe Myint Cho CAMBODIA Cambodian People’s Party, PPC Yos Son CYPRUS Republican Turkish Party, CTP Kutlay Erk Unal Findik EL SALVADOR FMLN Elmer Palma GUATEMALA Unidad Nacional de la Esperanza, UNE Miguel Angel Ibarra Luis Zurita GUINEA-BISSAU African Party of the Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde, PAIGC Carlos Gomes Junior INDIA Indian Socialist Front Vijay Pratap INDONESIA Labour Party, PB Muchtar Pakpahan IRAQ Arabic Socialist Movement Abdul Ilah Al Nasrawy Democratic National Party Nasir Al Jadarchy First National Democracy Majeed Al Haj
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