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10TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE ICAPP MOSCOW, RUSSIAN FEDERATION, OCTOBER 24-27, 2018

SECRETARIAT OF THE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF ASIAN POLITICAL PARTIES

10th GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE ICAPP MOSCOW, RUSSIAN FEDERATION 24-27 OCTOBER 2018 25 October Opening Ceremony of 10th General Assembly 25 October Opening Ceremony of 10th General Assembly 25 October Plenary Session of 10th General Assembly 25 October 5th Meeting of the ICAPP Women’s Wing 25 October 4th Meeting of the ICAPP Media Forum 25 October 4th Meeting of the ICAPP Youth Wing 26 October 3rd Trilateral Meeting among the ICAPP-COPPPAL-CAPP 26 October Closing Ceremony of the 10th General Assembly of the ICAPP 10th GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE ICAPP MOSCOW, RUSSIAN FEDERATION 24-27 OCTOBER 2018 24 October SC Meeting Table of Contents

I. Documents on the 10th General Assembly of the ICAPP 1. Program of the 10th General Assembly ····················································· 3 2. Program of the 4th Meeting of the ICAPP Media Forum ································ 5 3. Program of the 5 th Meeting of the ICAPP Women’s Wing ····························· 6 4. Program of the 4 th Meeting of the ICAPP Youth Wing ································· 7 5. Program of the 3 rd Trilateral Meeting among the ICAPP-COPPPAL-CAPP ········· 8 6. List of Participants in the 10th General Assembly ········································ 9 7. List of Candidates for the Bureau of the 10th General Assembly ·····················21 8. Conference Procedures for the 10th General Assembly ································23 9. Moscow Declaration ·········································································25 10. Moscow Statement for the 4 th Meeting of the ICAPP Media Forum ·················32 11. Moscow Statement for the 5 th Meeting of the ICAPP Women’s Wing ···············35 12. Moscow Statement for the 4 th Meeting of the ICAPP Youth Wing ···················39 13. Moscow Statement for the 3 rd Trilateral Meeting among the ICAPP-COPPPAL-CAPP ···································································41 14. List of Speakers at the Plenary Sessions of the 10th General Assembly··············43 15. List of Speakers at the 4 th Meeting of the ICAPP Media Forum ······················51 16. List of Speakers at the 5 th Meeting of the ICAPP Women’s Wing ···················52 17. List of Speakers at the 4 th Meeting of the ICAPP Youth Wing ························53 18. List of Speakers at the 3 rd Trilateral Meeting among the ICAPP-COPPPAL-CAPP ···································································54

II. Speeches by the Participants of the 10th GA 1. 10th General Assembly of the ICAPP ·····················································55 2. 4th Meeting of the ICAPP Media Forum ················································ 151 3. 5th Meeting of the ICAPP Women’s Wing ············································· 169 4. 4th Meeting of the ICAPP Youth Wing ················································· 177 5. 3rd Trilateral Meeting among the ICAPP-COPPPAL-CAPP ························· 191

III. News Reports on the 10th GA ································································ 201

IV. Introduction of the ICAPP 1. Brief Introduction of the ICAPP ························································· 237 2. ICAPP Charter and Major Understandings ············································· 240 3. List of the ICAPP Standing Committee and Bureau Member of the ICAPP Affiliated Groups ································································· 249 4. List of Political Parties Eligible to Participate in ICAPP Activities ················· 257

V. Memorandum of Understandings 1. Memorandum of Understanding on Cooperation to Support the Activities of the ICAPP ··································································· 271 2. Cooperation Agreement between the UNESCO and the ICAPP ···················· 276

Documents on the 10th General Assembly of the ICAPP

1. Program of the 10th General Assembly

Wednesday, October 24, 2018

p.m. Arrival of Delegates Check-in at Radisson Royal Hotel Moscow (Address: Building 1, 2/1, Kutuzovskiy Prospekt, Moscow, 121248) 18:30 Meeting with Hon. Gryzlov Boris Vyacheslavovich, Chairman of the Supreme Council of the United Russia Party - Venue: Hall “Library” (ICAPP SC Members) 19:00 Welcoming Reception hosted by the United Russia Party - Venue: Banquet Hall 21:00 31st Meeting of the ICAPP Standing Committee - Venue: Hall “Library”

Thursday, October 25, 2018

09:00 Departure from the Hotel to Victory Park 09:30 Cultural program - Venue: Central Museum of the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945; 10:30 Departure from Victory Park to the Hotel 11:00 Opening Ceremony - Venue: Congress Hall No. 1 11:30 1st Plenary Session - Venue: Congress Hall No. 1 12:30 Press Conference - Venue: 1st Fl., In the Lobby 13:00 Lunch - Venue: Congress Hall No. 2 and 3 14:00 2nd Plenary Session - Venue: Congress Hall No. 1 14:00 Round Table - Agenda: On the role of political parties in preventing interference in internal affairs of the sovereign states" - Venue: 1st Fl., Negotiation Room D2, In the lobby 16:00 Coffee Break - Venue: 1st Fl., In the Lobby 16:30 3rd Plenary Session - Venue: Congress Hall No. 1 16:30 4th Meeting of the ICAPP Media Forum - Venue: 1st Fl., Lounge in the Lobby 16:30 5th Meeting of the ICAPP Women’s Wing - Venue: Lounge, Congress Hall No. 4

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16:30 4th Meeting of the ICAPP Youth Wing - Venue: Lounge, Congress Hall No. 4 16:30 Meeting of the ICAPP Council for Culture - Venue: 1st Fl., Negotiation Room D2, In the lobby 19:15 Dinner with a Concert Program hosted by the United Russia Party - Venue: Radisson Boat

Friday, October 26

09:30 4th Plenary Session - Venue: Congress Hall No. 1 09:30 3rd Trilateral Meeting of the ICAPP-COPPPAL-CAPP (Only Members of ICAPP SC, COPPPAL and CAPP) - Venue: Congress Hall No. 4 11:00 Coffee Break - Venue: 1st Fl., In the Lobby 11:45 5th Plenary Session - Venue: Congress Hall No. 1 13:00 Lunch - Venue: Congress Hall No. 2 and 3 14:30 Summing-up reports on the session of the Media Forum, Women’s Wing, and Youth Wing of the ICAPP - Venue: Congress Hall No. 1 15:00 Closing Ceremony - Adoption of the Moscow Declaration - Venue: Congress Hall No. 1 16:00 Press Conference - Venue: 1st Fl., In the Lobby 18:00 Farewell Dinner hosted by the United Russia Party - Venue: Congress Hall No. 2 and 3

Saturday, October 27

10:00 Cultural Program - Bus Tour : City of Moscow p.m. Departure of Delegates

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2. Program of the 4th Meeting of the ICAPP Media Forum (October 25, 2018)

16:30 Opening Remarks report on the 3rd Meeting of the ICAPP Media Forum by Hon. Park Young-sun, Co-Chairperson of the ICAPP Media Forum, Member of the ICAPP Standing Committee, Member of the National Assembly and Former Chairperson and Floor Leader of The Minjoo Party, Republic of Korea - Seoul Statement on the Role of Media in Political Democratization and Building an Asian Community - New Bureau member of the ICAPP Media Forum

16:35 Comments by Vice Chairpersons

17:10 Presentations (5 minutes each) by Journalists and Representatives of Political Parties on following main themes: - The role of political parties in reducing international tensions and combating extremism - The importance of international inter-party cooperation in the formation and development of political, economic, social ties between states

17:30 Discussions on, and Adoption of, the Draft “Moscow Statement” of the ICAPP Media Forum

17:55 Closing Remarks by Hon. Park Young-sun, Co-Chairperson of the ICAPP Media Forum

18:00 Adjournment of the Meeting

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3. Program of the 5th Meeting of the ICAPP Women’s Wing (October 25, 2018)

16:30 Opening Remarks by Hon. Karelova Galina Nikolaevna, Member of the Presidium of the General Council of the United Russia Party, Deputy Chairperson of the Council of Federation of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation

16:45 Presentations (5 minutes each) by Representatives of Political Parties on following main themes: - The role of political parties in reducing international tensions and combating extremism - The importance of international inter-party cooperation in the formation and development of political, economic, social ties between states

17:30 Discussions on, and Adoption of, the Draft “Moscow Statement” of the ICAPP Women’s Wing

17:55 Closing Remarks by Meryem Göka, Co-Chairwoman of the ICAPP Women's Wing and Deputy Chairwoman of Foreign Affairs of the AK Party of Turkey

18:00 Adjournment of the Meeting

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4. Program of the 4th Meeting of the ICAPP Youth Wing (October 25, 2018)

16:30 Opening Remarks by Hon. Dato’ Seri Shahidan bin Kassim, Chairperson of the ICAPP Youth Wing, Member of the ICAPP Standing Committee, Member of Parliament and Former Minister in the office of Prime Minister of Malaysia

17:30 Discussions on, and Adoption of, the Draft “Moscow Statement” of the ICAPP Women’s Wing

17:55 Closing Remarks by Hon. Dato’ Seri Shahidan bin Kassim, Chairperson of the ICAPP Youth Wing, Member of the ICAPP Standing Committee, Member of Parliament and Former Minister in the office of Prime Minister of Malaysia

18:00 Adjournment of the Meeting

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5. Program of the 3rd Trilateral Meeting among the ICAPP-COPPPAL-CAPP (October 26, 2018)

09:30 Opening Remarks by Hon. Jose de Venecia, Founding Chairman and Chairman of the ICAPP Standing Committee

09:40 Welcoming Remarks by Hon. Andrey Klimov, Deputy Chairman of the Committee on International Affairs of the Council of Federation of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation, Member of the ICAPP Standing Committee

09:50 Remarks by Hon. Park Ro-byug, Secretary General of the ICAPP

10:00 Remarks by Hon. Manolo Pichardo, President of the COPPPAL

10:10 Remarks by Hon. Mohamed Yousif Abdallah, Assistant to the Secretary General of the CAPP

10:15 Presentations (5 minutes each) by Representatives of Political Parties on the following topics: - Processes of Integration, Interdependence and Cooperation; and - Establishment of a mechanism through the three organizations monitor the cooperation.

10:45 Discussions on proposal and adoption of the draft “Moscow Statement”

10:50 Remarks of Appreciation by Hon. Park Ro-byug, Secretary General of the ICAPP

11:00 Adjournment of the Meeting

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Political Parties (73 political parties from 39 countries)

Afghanistan, Islamic Republic of (2) 1. National Coalition of Afghanistan (NCA) - Hon. Mohammad Asim, Head of Secretariat of the NCA - Mr. Ahmad Massih Hami, Deputy Director of Youth Council of NCA

Armenia, Republic of (2) 2. Republican Party of Armenia (RPA) - Hon. Hermine Naghdalyan, Member of the Executive board of the Republican Party of Armenia (RPA), Chairperson of the Women’s council of RPA, Deputy Chair of the Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs at the National Assembly of Armenia and Head of the Armenian delegation to the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly - Hon. Mihran Hakobyan, Member of RPA Board, Member of the Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs at the National Assembly of Armenia and Deputy at the National Assembly of Armenia

Azerbaijan, Republic of (2) 3. New Azerbaijan Party (NAP) - Hon. Sevinj Fataliyeva, Chief of the Department of International Relations of the New Azerbaijan Party and Member of Parliament - Hon. Ramin Mammadov, Deputy Chairman of the New Azerbaijan Party Youth Union

Bangladesh, People’s Republic of (7) 4. Bangladesh Awami League - Hon. Shammi Ahmed, Secretary to the Bangladesh Awami League International Affairs Sub-Committee - Ms. Nadia Choudhury, Member, International Affairs Sub-Committee 5. National Socialist Party - Mr. Md Shazzad Hossain, Assistant office Secretary, Jatiya Samajtantrik Dal- jasod Central Executive Committee - Mrs. Mamata Farzana Yesmin, Spouse of Mr. Md. Shazzad Hossain - Mr. Md. Harun Or Rashid, Assistant Secretary, Central Executive Committee Jatiya Samajtantik Dal-Jasod Bangladesh and Organizing Secretary Central Executive Committee National Youth Alliance-NYA 6. Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) - Hon. Mahbub Alam, Vice President of National Central Committee, Bangladesh Jatiotabadi Shecchasebok Dal and Senior Vice-President BNP Malaysia - Mr. Dato' Goonahlam Subramaniam, Director of Bangladesh-Malaysia Chamber of Commerce and Industry

9 Documents on the 10th General Assembly of the ICAPP Cambodia, Kingdom of (12) 7. Cambodian People’s Party (CPP) - Hon. Khuon Sudary, Vice-Chairperson of the ICAPP Standing Committee and Deputy Speaker of the National Assembly of Cambodia - Hon. Suos Yara, Member of Parliament and Vice-Chairman of Commission on Foreign Affairs, International Cooperation, Information and Media - Hon. Ban Sreymom, Advisor to the President of the National Assembly of Cambodia - Hon. Run Sovanntevy, Under Secretary of State of the Ministry of Women's Affairs - Hon. Sok Siphana, Advisor to the Royal Government of Cambodia - Mrs. Khieu Mealy, Advisor to Hon. Khuon Sudary - Mr. Khuon Vilavann, Advisor to Hon. Khuon Sudary - Mr. Eng Kokthay, Deputy Secretary General of Civil Society Alliance Forum (CSAF) - Mr. Lim Bunhok, Member of the Secretary Team of Prime Minister Hun Sen - Ms. Nun Thavy, Deputy Director of International Relation Department of the Director General of International Relation, Protocol, and Media of the Secretariat of National Assembly - Mr. Ngo Sitthykun, Deputy Director of Department of Research, Dissemination, and Information of Civil Society Alliance Forum - Ms. Pov Yousim, Assistant to Member of Parliament

China, People's Republic of (6) 8. Communist Party of China (CPC) - Hon. Guo Yezhou, Vice Chairperson of the ICAPP Standing Committee and Vice Minister of the International Department of CPC Central Committee - Mr. Ma Xuesong, Deputy Director General of Asian Bureau I, CPC International Department - Mr. Chang Jiuqing, Director of the Party - Ms. Jia Peng, Director of the Party - Mr. Chen Jian, Third Secretary - Ms. Wang Wei, Interpreter,

Cyprus, Republic of (4) 9. Movement for Social Democracy (EDEK) - Hon. Maria Vasiliadou, Deputy President of the EDEK - Hon. Panikos Penga, Secretary of International Relations Office of EDEK 10. AKEL Party - Hon. George T. Georgiou, Member of House of Representatives - Madam Sofia Georgiou, Spouse of Mr. George T. Georgiou

Georgia (2) 11. Labor Party of Georgia - Mr. Beka Natelashvili, Representative of International Secretary - Mr. Bachana Ambardnishvili, Leader of Youth Organization

10 Documents on the 10th General Assembly of the ICAPP India, Republic of (10) - Hon. Vijay Jolly, Member of the ICAPP Standing Committee, - Mr. Taj Mohammed, expert 12. India National Congress - Hon. Anil Kumar Shastri,Chairman of Hindi Department of All India Congress Committee - Madame Manju Shastri, Spouse of Hon. Anil Kumar Shastri 13. Communist Party of India - Hon. Binoy Viswam, Member of the Parliament - Madame Shyla Chanthiathil George, Spouse of Mr. Binoy Viswam - Mr. Narasimha Reddy Katti, Legislative Assembly member of the Communist Party of India 14. Nationalist Congress Party - Hon. Ganesh Mahadeo Ambike, National General Secretary - Mr. Vishal Dongare, Member of the party 15. Samajwadi Party - Hon. Abhishek Mishra, National Secretary and Spokesperson of the Samajwadi Party

Indonesia, Republic of (11) 16. Party of the Functional Groups-Golkar - Hon. Theo L. Sambuaga, Member of the ICAPP Standing Committee and Vice President of the Party - Madame Erna Sambuaga, Spouse of Hon. Theo L. Sambuaga - Hon. Iris Indira Murti, Member of Patron Council of the Golkar - Ms. Emmalia Natar Nasution, International Relations Department - Ms. Diana Widyastuti, Central Board of Golkar - Ms. Chandra Kusuma Dewi, Department of Institutional Relation - Mr. Lucky Ali Moerfiqin, International Relations Department 17. National Mandate Party - Ms. Dyah Hestu Lestari, Deputy Secretary General of the Party - Mr. Erwin Izharudin, Vice secretary of National Mandate Party - Ms. Nur Indah Fitriani, Vice secretary of National Mandate Party 18. United Development Party (Partai Persatuan Pembangunan) - Hon. Muchammad Romahurmuziy, Leader of the Party

Iran, Islamic Republic of (4) 19. Islamic Motalefeh Party - Hon. Hassan Ghafoori Fard, Member of the ICAPP Standing Committee, Founding President of the Foundation for Islamic Development, Member of the Central Committee of Islamic Motalefeh Party and Former Vice President of Iran - Mr. Alireza Ghafoori Fard, Special Assistant to Hon. Hassan Ghafoori Fard - Mr. Mohammadmahdi Tinaitehrani, Second Deputy International Affairs - Madame Lajevardi Hourasadat, Spouse of Mr. Mohammadmahdi Tinaitehrani

Iraq, Republic of (7) 20. Kurdistan Democratic Party - Hon. Hosyar Siwaily, Head of KDP Foreign Relations Office of the Party

11 Documents on the 10th General Assembly of the ICAPP - Hon. Abdulsalam Ibrahim Abdullah Zebari, Head of Eurasian Desk of Foreign Relations Office of the Party - Mr. Khoshavi Babakr, KDP Representative in Russia - Ms. Elena Sokol, Director of KDP Site - Mr. Navzad Aziz, the Asian Desk Staff

21. Kurdistan Islamic Komal - Hon. Dara Saeed, Member of Leadership and Former Minister - Mr. Mohammed Al-Dawoodi, Political borough

Japan (3) 22. Democratic Party For the People (DPFP) - Hon. Kentaro Gemma, Vice Director-General of International Department 23. Japanese Communist Party (JCP) - Hon.Yasuo Ogata, Vice Chair, Director of the international Commission, Member of the Standing Executive Committee, Former Member of the House of Councilors of Japan - Hon. Minoru Tagawa, Coordinator of the International Commission, Member of the Central Committee, Member of the Secretariat

Kazakhstan (3) 24. Nur Otan Party - Hon. Farkhad Kuanganov, Secretary of the Nur Otan Party - Ms. Zhanar Smakova, Chief expert of political department - Ms. Aliya Sakhariyeva, Deputy Head of International Relations Office

Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of (3) 25. Workers’ Party of Korea (Rodong Dang) - Hon. Ryu Myung-sun, Deputy Chairman at the International Affairs Department of the Workers’ Party of Korea - Mr. Son Kwang-soo, Deputy Head of the Russian Sector of the of the International Department of the Workers’s Party of Korea - Hon. Kim Hyung-jun, Ambassador, Embassy of the Russian Federation

Korea, Republic of (7) 26. The Minjoo Party(Democracy) - Hon. Park Young-sun, Member of the ICAPP Standing Committee, Member of the National Assembly and Former Chairperson and Floor Leader of The Minjoo Party, Republic of Korea. - Hon. Park Jae-ho, Member of the National Assembly - Hon.Oh Jae-sae, Member of the National Assembly - Ms. Kim Tae-won, Assistant to Hon. Park Young-Sun 27. Bareunmirae Party - Hon. Dr. Lee Hye-hoon, Member of the ICAPP Standing Committee, Member of the National Assembly and Former Chairperson of the Bareun Party, Bareunmirae Party, Republic of Korea - Hon. Ha Tae-keung, Member of the National Assembly - Mr. Kim Young-ju, Assistant to Hon. Lee Hye-hoon

12 Documents on the 10th General Assembly of the ICAPP Kyrgyzstan (5) 28. Social Democratic Party of Kyrgyzstan - Mr. Almazbek Atambaev, Chairman of the party - Mr. Muradyl Mademinov, Deputy of chairman - Mr. Temirlan Sultanbekov, Representative in Russia - Ms. Kunduz Zholdubaevam, Official representative - Ms. Irina Urievna Karamushkina, Member of political council

Lao People's Democratic Republic (5) 29. Lao People’s Revolutionary Party (Lao PRP) - Hon. Somphone Sichaleune, Vice-Chairman (Vice Minister) of Committee for External Relations of the Central Committee of the Lao People’s Revolutionary Party - Ms. Vilavanh Yiapoher, Director General of Research and Information Department, Committee for External Relations of the Central Committee of the Lao PRP - Ms. Douangsamone Dalavong, Director General of Planning and International Cooperation Department, Lao Women’ Union - Mr. Somkiao Kingsada, Director General of Relation and International Cooperation Department, Lao People’s Revolutionary Youth Union - Mr. Thongsavath Phanthavong, Director of Multilateral Relations Division, Research and Information Department, Committee for External Relations of the Central Committee of the Lao PRP

Lebanese Republic (4) 30. Free Patriotic Movement Party - Hon. Youssef Awad, Member of the ICAPP Standing Committee and Coordinator for Asia and Overseas, Free Patriotic Party of Lebanon 31. Future Movement Party - Hon. Fadi Fawaz, Member of the ICAPP Standing Committee, Advisor of the Prime Minister of Lebanon Mr. Saad Hariri for Development Affairs and the Chairman of Future Movement Party - Mr. Georges Chaaban, Advisor of the Prime Minister of Lebanon Mr. Saad Hariri for Russia Relations - Mr. Samer Fawaz, Advisor of the Prime Minister of Lebanon Mr. Saad Hariri

Malaysia (8) 32. United Malay National Organization (UMNO) - Hon. Dato’ Seri Shahidan bin Kassim, Member of the ICAPP Standing Committee, Member of Parliament and Former Minister in the office of Prime Minister - Hon. Dato’ Raja Ropiaah Abdullah, Chairman IPDA Malaysia Chapter - Ms. Wan Zawiyah Wan Halim, Special Officer to Hon. Dato’ Seri Dr. Shahidan bin Kassim - Mr. Rosman Abdullah, IPDA Malaysia Chapter 33. Malaysia Chinese Association (MCA) - Hon. Dato’ Sri Dr. Hou Kok Chung, Member of the ICAPP Standing Committee, Vice President of Malaysian Chinese Association - Madame Lim Mooi Lang, Spouse of Hon. Dato’ Sri Dr. Hou Kok Chung - Hon. Dr. Tee Ching Seng, Vice-Chairperson of ICAPP Youth Wing - Ms. Dato’ Yu Chok Tow, Chief of Staff of President’s Office

13 Documents on the 10th General Assembly of the ICAPP Mongolia (3) 34. Mongolia People’s Party (MPP) - Hon. Kh.Saikhansanaa, Head of the department for international relations of Mongolian People’s Party - Ms. A.Enkhzul, Head of the department for social media & content development of Mongolian People’s Party - Ms. Maral-Erdene Enkhtuya, Political Officer of Department of International Relations

Myanmar (2) 35. Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP) - Hon. Wunna Maung Lwin, Member of the ICAPP Standing Committee and Member of Central Executive Committee of the Party - Ms. Zar Chi Lwin, Township Secretary of the Party Nepal, Federal Democratic Republic of (9) 36. Communist Party of Nepal (CPN-UML) - Hon. Jhalanath Khanal, Member of the ICAPP Standing Committee, Former Prime Minister and Senior Leader of the CPN-UML - Mr. Yogendra Bahadur Shahi, Expert of Foreign Affairs and International Relations Department of the CPN-UML

37. Nepali Congress Party - Hon. Sujata Koirala, Member of the ICAPP Standing Committee, Member of Parliament and Former Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister of Nepal - Mr. Rakesh Hamal, Central Working Committee of Nepali Congress 38. Federal Socialist Forum-Nepal (FSFN) - Hon. Arjun Thapa, Head of Department of International Relations of the FSFN - Mr. Bharat Gurung, Secretary of Department of International Relations of the FSFN 39. Rastriya Prajatantra Party (RPP) - Mr. Bharat Prasad Pathak, Member Secretary of international relations department, Member of central committee 40. Rastriya Prajatantra Party-Democratic (RPP-D) - Hon. Sunil Bahadur Thapa, General Secretary of the International Affairs of the RPP-D - Madame Sangeeta Thapa, Spouse of Hon. Sunil Bahadur Thapa

Pakistan, Islamic Republic of (5) 41. Pakistan People’s Party - Ms. Mahwish Sheikh, Coordinator Over Seas Committee of Pakistan People’s Party 42. Jamaat-e-Islami (Islamic Party) - Ms. Dr. Samia Raheel Qazi, Secretary to Director of Foreign Affairs, Member of Women’s Wing of the Party - Ms. Riham Jamil Qazi, Secretary to Director Foreign Affairs, Youth Wing 43. Pakistan Muslim League-N - Hon. Mushahid Hussain Sayed, Vice Chairman and Special Rapporteur of the ICAPP, and Chairman of Central Media Committee of Pakistan Muslim League-N - Mr. Mustafa Hyder Sayed, Information Secretary of the ICAPP Youth Wing

14 Documents on the 10th General Assembly of the ICAPP Palestinian National Authority (2) 44. Fateh - Hon. Heyam Matar Haddad, General Director of Fateh International Relations Commission - Ms.Frihan R. A. Farrah, Member of Fateh party

Papua New Guinea, Independent State of (2) 45. Rural Development Party - Hon. Bafike Kongrui, General Secretary - Mr. Marcus Palem Kara, Public Officer of the Rural Development Party.

Philippines, Republic of (28) 46. Partido Demokratiko Pilipino–Lakas ng Bayan (PDP-Laban) - Hon. Aquilino Pimentel III, Senator, Former Senate President, President of PDP- Laban - Madame Anna Kathryn Yu, Spouse of Hon. Pimentel - Hon. Scott Davies S. Lanete, Congressman, 3rd District-Masbate, Vice Chairperson, Games and Amusement - Madame Angela Lanete, spouse of Hon. Scott Davies S. Lanete - Atty. Melvin Matibag, Deputy Secretary General of PDP-Laban 47. Liberal Party (LP) - Hon. Cheryl P. Deloso-Montalla, House of Representatives, Head of Delegation, 2nd Dist. Zambales, Chairperson, Human Rights Comm. 48. Nationalist People's Coalition (NPC) - Hon. Manuel Luis T. Lopez, Representative of the 1st District, City of Manila, Vice-Chairperson, Metro Manila Development Comm. and Public Order and Safety Comm. - Hon. Weslie Gatchalian, Congressman of the NPC, 1st Dist. Valenzuela City, Member for the Majority of Comms. 49. Nacionalista Party (NP) - Hon. Marquez Go, Representative, Lone District of Baguio - Ms. Claudia Go, Daughter of Hon. Marquez Go - Hon. Seth Frederick Jalosjos, Congressman 50. National Unity Party (NUP) - Hon. Edwin C. Ongchuan, Congressman, 2nd Dist. Northern Samar - Ms. Blesila B. Ongchuan, Spouse of Hon. Ongchuan - Hon. Strike Revilla, House Member, 2nd Dist. Cavite, Vice-Chairperson, Banks and Financial Intermediaries - Madame Blesila Ongchuan, Business woman and Spouse of Hon. Ongchuan - Mr. Manolo Galvez, Jr., Chief of District and Political Staff 51. Inang Mahal Partylist - Hon. Shernee Abubakar Tan, Congresswoman - Hon. Abigail Faye Ferriol-Pascual, Congresswoman - Mr. Jacob Pascual, Spouse of Hon. Abigail Faye C. Ferriol-Pascual - Ms. Liza Punsalan, Staff of Hon. Shernee Abubakar Tan - Mr. Carl Punsalan, Staff of Hon. Shernee Abubakar Tan - Mr. Michael Chris Berania, Staff of Hon. Shernee Abubakar - Mr. Marjani Tambut, Staff of Hon. Shernee Abubakar Tan

15 Documents on the 10th General Assembly of the ICAPP 52. Centrist Democratic Party of the Philippines - Hon. Rufus Bautista Rodriguez, President of the Party - Madame Rodriguez, Spouse of Hon. Rufus Rodriguez - Mr. Kenny Soon Dichaves, Executive Assistant to the President of Centrist Democratic Party of the Philippines The Philippines House of Representatives Delegation Secretariat - Ms. May Araneta, Director - Ms. Violeta Veloso, Director

Russian Federation (27) 53. United Russia Party - H.E. Medvedev Dmitry Anatolyevich, Prime Minister of Russian Federation - Hon. Andrey Klimov, Member of the ICAPP Standing Committee, Deputy Chairman of the Committee on International Affairs, the Council of Federation (Senate) of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation - Hon. Gryzlov Boris, Chairman of the Supreme Council of the United Russia Party - Hon. Turchak Andrey, Secretary of the General Council of the United Russia Party, Deputy Chairman of the Council of Federation of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation - Hon. Pligin Vladimir, Member of the Supreme Council of the United Russia Party - Hon. Morgulov Igor Vladimirovich, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation - Hon. Revenko Evgeny, Deputy Secretary of the General Council of the United Russia Party, Deputy of the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation - Hon. Karelova Galina, Member of the Presidium of the General Council of the United Russia Party, Deputy Chairman of the Council of Federation of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation - Hon. Kosachev Konstantin, Member of the Supreme Council of the United Russia Party, Chairman of the Committee on International Affairs, the Council of Federation (Senate) of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation - Hon. Geht Irina, Deputy Chairman of the Committee of the Council of the Federation of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation on Agrarian and Food policy and Environmental Management, Russian Federation - Hon. Zhurova Svetlana, First Deputy Chairman of the Committee on International Affairs of the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation - Hon. Davydov Denis, Member of the Presidium of the General Council of the United Russia Party, Chairman of the Coordination Council of the All-Russian Public Organization “Young Guard of United Russia, Russian Federation - Hon. Sharova Daria, Head of the International Sector of the Central Staff of the All-Russian Public Organization “ Young Guard of United Russia, Russian Federation 54. Communist Party of the Russian Federation (CPRF) - Hon. Dmitry Novikov - 1st Deputy Chairman of the State Duma Committee for International Affairs - Hon. Mikhail Kostrikov - Deputy Chief of Staff of the CPRF faction in the State Duma

16 Documents on the 10th General Assembly of the ICAPP 55. Liberal Democratic Party of Russia (LDPR) - Hon. Vladimir Zhirinovsky, Leader of the Liberal Democratic Party group in the State Duma - Hon. Anton Morozov, member of the Supreme Council of the Liberal Democratic Party of Russia, Member of the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation - Hon. Boris Chernyshov, Deputy Chairman of the Committee on Education and Science of the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation - Hon. Nikita Berezin, Deputy Head of the staff of the Liberal Democratic Party group in the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation - Hon. Vasily Vlasov, Member of the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation 56. A Just Russia Party - Hon. Irina Petelyaeva, the Secretary of the Presidium of the Party Central Council on Organizational and Party Activities, Head of the Party’s Central Office, a Deputy of the Legislative Assembly of the Republic of Karelia - Hon. Alexey Chepa, Member of the Presidium of the Central council of the party; The Deputy Leader of the "A Just Russia" faction in the State Duma and the Deputy Chairman of the RF FA State Duma Committee on International Affairs - Hon. Alexander Romanovich, The Secretary of the Presidium of the party Central Council for International Affairs and the Vice-President of the Socialist International - Hon. Roman Bernatskii, ead of International Department - Hon. Anastasiia Gagurina, Chief expert of International Department 57. The Communist Party Communist of Russia - Hon. Maxim Suraykin, Chairman of the Central Committee - Hon. Ilia Kleimenov, Member of the political Bureau of the Central Committee

Singapore, Republic of (7) 58. Reform Party - Mr. Abdul Rasheed Mahaboob Batcha, Central Executive Committee Member - Mr. Mohamed Hassan Konna Syed Sahul, Ordinary Member of the Party - Ms. Noraini Bte Yunus, Treasurer of the Party 59. Singaporeans First - Hon. Tan Jee Say, Secretary General of the Party - Mr. Melvyn Weng Hoe Chiu, Assistant Secretary General of the Party 60. People’s Power Party - Hon. Syafarin Bin Sarif, Chairman of the Party - Hon. Meng Seng Goh, Secretary General

Sri Lanka, Democratic Socialist Republic of (1) 61. United National Party (UNP) - Hon. Daya Dharmapala Kilittuwa Gamage, Member of the ICAPP Standing Committee, Minister of Social Welfare and Primary Industries of Sri Lanka, Member of Parliament and National Organizer of the Party

Syrian Arab Republic (2) 62. BAAS Party - Hon. Usef Ahmad, Member of the Central Council of the Party, Head of the

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Tajikistan (2) 63. People's Democratic Party of Tajikistan (PDPT) - Hon. Bobojoniyon Ranokhon, Deputy of Chairman of PDPT - Hon. Mirzomuddinov Saidbek, the Representative of the People's Democratic Party of Tajikistan in the Russian Federation

Thailand, Kingdom of (2) 64. Pheu Thai Party - Hon. Dr. Nalinee Taveesin, Member of the ICAPP Standing Committee, Vice- Chairperson of the ICAPP Women’s Wing, Former Thailand Trade Representative, and Former Minister Attached to Prime Minister’s Office 65. Democrat Party (Phak Prachathipat) - Hon. Prakob Chirakiti, Former Director of the Democrat Party

Turkey (7) 66. Justice and Development Party (AK Party) - Hon. Cevdet Yilmaz, Member of the ICAPP Standing Committee and Chairman for Foreign Affairs - Mr. Burhan Kayaturk, Deputy Chariman of Foreign Affairs - Hon. Meryem Goka, Co-Chairwoman of the ICAPP Women's Wing and Deputy Chairwoman of Foreign Affairs - Ms. Saliha Donmez, Vice Chairwoman of Women’s Wing - Mr. Cengizhan Gungor, Vice Chairman of Youth Wing - Ms. Sevgi Hajdari, Foreign Affairs Expert - Mr. Hasan Karlda, Security Personnel

Uzbekistan (3) 67. Liberal Democratic Party of Uzbekistan - Hon. Bakhtiyor Sultonnazirovich Yakubov, Deputy Chairman for organizational- party work of the Executive Committee of the Political Council of the Liberal Democratic Party of Uzbekistan 68. Peoples' Democratic Party of Uzbekistan - Hon. Vafaev Ulugbek Nazarovich, Deputy Chairman of the Central Council of the People's Democratic Party 69. Adolat (Justice) Social Democratic Party of Uzbekistan - Hon. Abukamol Rakhmonov, Deputy Chairperson of the Political Council of SDPU Adolat

Vietnam (12) 70. Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) - Hon. Hoang Binh Quan, Member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Vietnam and Chairman of the Party Central Committee's Commission for External Affairs - Hon. Nguyen Anh Tuan, Permanent Secretary of the Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union Central Committee

18 Documents on the 10th General Assembly of the ICAPP - Hon. Nguyen Manh Cuong, Vice Chairman of the Central Commission for External Affairs of the CPV - Mr. Nguyen Thanh Tuan, Head of the Department for Russia, Eastern Europe and Central Asia Department, the Central Commission for External Relations of the CPV - Mr. Ngo Le Van, Acting Head of the Research and General Political Affairs Department, the Central Commission for External Relations of the CPV - Mrs. Nguyen Thi Lan Anh, Deputy Head of the Party Central Committee Office of the CPV - Mr. Hoang Van Tuan, Deputy Head of the Department for China and Northeast Asia, the Central Commission for External Relations of the CPV - Mr. Le Gia Kien, Deputy Head of Administrative Department and the Central Commission for External Relations of the CPV - Mr. Pham The Vinh, Expert of the Department for Russia, Eastern Europe and Central Asia Department, the Central Commission for External Relations of the CPV - Mrs. Do Lien Huong, Expert of the Research and General Political Affairs Department, the Central Commission for External Relations of the CPV - Mr. Trinh Thuong Truong An, Expert of the Research and General Political Affairs Department, the Central Commission for External Relations of the CPV - Mr. Pham Xuan Nam, Official of the Protocol Department and the Central Commission for External Relations of the CPV

Journalists (9) - Hon. Huy Vannak, Vice-Chairperson of the ICAPP Media Forum and President of Union of Journalist Federations of Cambodia, Kingdom of Cambodia - Mr. Huot Kheangveng, Vice-President of Union of Journalists Federation of Cambodia - Mr. Ath Bonny, Secretary General of Union of Journalists Federation of Cambodia - Mr. Khoshawi Muhammad Hawlla, Head of Bureau Kurdistan24 TV (K24) of Iraq - Mr. Shakhzod Alxandrovich Gamirov, Cameraman (K24) of Iraq - Mr. Abdulstar Mustafa Hussein, Technical Officer (K24) of Iraq - Hon. Kim Chang-gi, Vice-Chairperson of the Media Forum, Publisher / Executive Editor of Monthly Chosun and Chosun Weekly, and Chairman of the Board of Shinyoung Fund of Kwanhun Journalists Club, Republic of Korea - Mr. Yoon Taehyung, Head of the political desk, News 1, Republic of Korea - Ms. Merve Sebnem Oruc, Journalist, Daily Sabah, Turkey

Office of the Chairman of the Standing Committee (7) - Hon. Jose de Venecia, Jr., Founding Chairman and Chairman of the ICAPP Standing Committee and Former Speaker of the House of Representatives - Hon. Georgina De Venecia, President of the Inang Mahal Partylist and Spouse of Hon. Jose de Venecia - Mr. Nelson Sotto, Special Political Adviser to Hon. Jose de Venecia and Hon. Gina de Venecia - Ms. Rosella Sotto, Member of Executive Council of the Inang Mahal Partylist

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Secretariat of the ICAPP (5) - Hon. Park Ro-byug, Secretary General of the ICAPP, Former Ambassador of Republic of Korea to Russia - Ms. Park Hyun-ryang, Director of the ICAPP - Ms. Jeong Sang-myoung, Planning and Coordination Department of the ICAPP - Ms. Oh Hyun-jeong, Program Department of the ICAPP - Mr. Park Ji-ho, Program Department of the ICAPP

Observers (15) 1. Permanent Conference of Political Parties in Latin America and Caribbean (COPPPAL) - Hon. Manolo Pichardo, President of the COPPPAL - Ms. Mayra Tavarez, Coordinator of the Finance Commission - Ms. Kasey Perez, Secretary to the President of the COPPPAL - Mr. Domingo Jiménez, Delegate of the Dominican Liberation Party (PLD) - Mr. Carlos Roosebelt Marquez Cabrera, Interpreter

2. Council of African Political Parties (CAPP) - Dr. Mohamed Yousif Abdallah, Assistant to the Secretary General of the CAPP - Mr. Elnimiri Abdekarim, Secretary of the CAPP

3. World Forum For Proximity of Islamic School of Thought (WFPIST) - Mr. Mohammad Nazemi Ardakani, Deputy of Social Affairs

4. Hanns Seidel Foundation - Jan Dresel, Branch Manager in Moscow

5. European Democratic Youth Union - H.Hurtado-Mira, President of the European Democratic Youth Union

6. Association "Lombardy - Russia" - D.Savoini, Executive Secretary of the League Party, on cooperation with Russia and the CIS countries, President of the Association “Lombardy-Russia”

7. Serbian Progressive Party - Marko Djuri, Deputy Chairman of the party - Mamjan Jovi, Expert - Ivan Jaksic, Expert - Sofija Stojsavljevic, Expert

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7. List of Candidates for the Bureau of the 10th GA

Candidates for Plenary Session

Chairperson: - Hon. Gryzlov Boris Vyacheslavovich, Chairman of the Supreme Council of the United Russia Party, Chairman of the Board of Directors of Tactical Missiles Corporation, Russian Federation

Vice Chairpersons: - Hon. Hassan Ghafouri Fard, Member of the Central Committee of Islamic Motalefeh Party and Former Vice President of Iran, Islamic Republic of Iran - Hon. Guo Yezhou, Vice Minister of the International Department of CPC Central Committee, People’s Republic of China - Hon. Daya Dharmapala Kilittuwa Gamage, Minister of Social Welfare and Primary Industries of Sri Lanka and Senior Deputy Chairman of the United National Party (UNP), Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka - Hon. Ms. Meryem Goka, Co-Chairwoman of the ICAPP Women's Wing and Deputy Chairwoman of Foreign Affairs, Republic of Turkey - Hon. Nguyen Manh Cuong, Vice Chairman of the Commission for External Relations of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Vietnam, Socialist Republic of Vietnam

Candidates for the 4th Meeting of the ICAPP Media Forum

Chairperson: - Hon. Revenko Evgeny Vasilievich, Deputy Secretary of the General Council of the United Russia Party , deputy of the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation - Hon. Park Young-sun, Co-Chairperson of the ICAPP Media Forum, Member of the ICAPP Standing Committee, Member of the National Assembly and Former Chairperson and Floor Leader of The Minjoo (Democracy) Party, Republic of Korea

Vice Chairperson: - Hon. Vijay Jolly, Vice-Chairperson of the ICAPP Media Forum, Member of the ICAPP Standing Committee, Senior Indian Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and President of the Delhi Study Group, Republic of India - Hon. Kim Chang-gi, Vice-Chairperson of the ICAPP Media Forum, Publisher / Executive Editor of Monthly Chosun and Chosun Weekly, and Chairman of the Board of Shinyoung Fund of Kwanhun Journalists Club, Republic of Korea

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Candidates for the 5th Meeting of the ICAPP Women’s Wing

Chairperson: - Hon. Karelova Galina Nikolaevna, Member of the Presidium of the General Council of the United Russia Party, Deputy Chairman of the Council of Federation of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation - Hon. Hon. Sujata Koirala, Co-Chairperson of the ICAPP Women’s Wing, Member of Parliament, Member of the Central Working Committee, Head of the International Department of the Nepali Congress Party and Former Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister, Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal

Vice Chairperson: - Hon. Dr. Nalinee Taveesin, Vice-Chairperson of the ICAPP Women’s Wing, Former Minister Attached to Prime Minister’s Office and Former Thailand Trade Representative, Pheu Thai Party, Kingdom of Thailand - Hon. Meryem Goka, Co-Chairperson of the ICAPP Women’s Wing and Deputy Chairwoman of the Foreign Affairs of the Justice and Development Party (AK Party), Republic of Turkey

Candidates for the 4th Meeting of the ICAPP Youth Wing

Chairperson: - Hon. Davydov Denis Aleksandrovich, Member of the Presidium of the General Council of the United Russia Party, Chairman of the Coordination Council of the All- Russian public organization "Young Guard of United Russia", Russian Federation - Hon. Dato’ Seri Shahidan bin Kassim, Chairperson of the ICAPP Youth Wing, Member of the ICAPP Standing Committee, Member of Parliament and Former Minister in the office of Prime Minister, Malaysia

Vice Chairperson: - Hon. Suos Yara, Deputy Chairman of the ICAPP Youth Wing, Member of Parliament and Vice-Chairman of Commission on Foreign Affairs, International Cooperation, Information and Media, Kingdom of Cambodia - Mr. Tee Ching Seng, Vice Chairperson of the ICAPP Youth Wing, Malaysia

Candidates for the Drafting Committee of Moscow Declaration

Co-Chairperson - Hon. Mushahid Hussain Sayed, Special Rapporteur of the ICAPP Standing Committee, Chairman of Central Media Committee of Pakistan Muslim-League (PML-N), Islamic Republic of Pakistan - Hon. Park Ro-byug, Secretary General of the ICAPP and Former Ambassador of Republic of Korea to Russia, Republic of Korea

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8. Conference Procedures for the 10th General Assembly of the ICAPP (Moscow, Russian Federation, October 24-27, 2018)

1. The official language of the 10th General Assembly (GA) shall be English. However, if any delegation or observer provides its own interpreter, who can simultaneously interpret its native language into English, the hosts will provide facilities for simultaneous interpretation.

2. A Chairman and five Vice Chairmen of the GA will be elected at the Opening Ceremony. The list of candidates for the Bureau of the GA will be prepared and submitted by the ICAPP Standing Committee for its adoption at the GA. The Leader of the United Russia Party will be nominated as Chairman of the 10th GA in accordance with the ICAPP tradition.

Five Deputy Chairmen will be nominated by the ICAPP Standing Committee in consideration of geographic balance of the region, of whom the First Deputy Chairman will be nominated by the United Russia Party. The Chairman of the Organizing Committee of the GA will be nominated as the First Deputy Chairman of the GA in accordance with the ICAPP tradition.

The Chairman, and Deputy Chairmen upon the request from the Chairman, will preside over the plenary sessions of the GA, including the opening and closing sessions.

3. Heads of Delegations, and Heads of Observer Delegations, will be invited to deliver their keynote speeches at the plenary sessions of the GA on its main theme to be decided by the United Russia Party in consultation with the ICAPP Standing Committee. Their speeches should not exceed five to seven minutes each for the smooth conduct of the conference. The list of speakers will be prepared and circulated by the ICAPP Secretariat at the beginning of each plenary session.

In this regard, all delegates are requested to take note that, at the 13th Meeting of the ICAPP Standing Committee held in Kunming in July 2010, an understanding was reached that all representatives of the political parties at ICAPP meetings should refrain from raising any issues directly related to bilateral conflicts or disputes among the countries in the region.

The copies of speeches, in English, should be submitted electronically (by email) to the ICAPP Secretariat at [email protected] for publication of the report of the GA. Otherwise, the copies of the speeches will not be included in the final report.

4. The annual meeting of the ICAPP Standing Committee, ICAPP Media Forum, ICAPP Women’s Wing, ICAPP Youth Wing and the Meeting of the Coordination Committee among the ICAPP-COPPPAL-CAPP will be held on the sideline of the GA. The ICAPP Secretariat will organize the program of this meeting in cooperation with the host of the GA.

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5. The Moscow declaration will be adopted and read at the Closing Session. The first draft of the declaration will be prepared by the ICAPP Secretariat in cooperation with the ICAPP Standing Committee and the Organizing Committee of the GA, and circulated among all the delegations at the beginning of the GA. In this regard, the Drafting Committee of the Moscow Declaration will also be elected at the Opening Session of the GA. The list of candidates for the Drafting Committee will be prepared and submitted by the ICAPP Secretariat in consultation with the Members of the ICAPP Standing Committee.

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9. Moscow Declaration (Moscow, Russian Federation, 24-27 October)

1. We, the leaders and representatives of 73 political parties from Afghanistan, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bangladesh, Cambodia, China, Cyprus, Georgia, India, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Japan, Kazakhstan, Republic of Korea, Democratic People's Republic of Korea, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Lebanon, Malaysia, Mongolia, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, Palestinian National Authority, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Russia, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Syria, Thailand, Turkey, Uzbekistan, Vietnam, Dominican Republic (representing the COPPPAL) and Sudan (representing the CAPP) gathered here in Moscow, the capital city of the Russian Federation, for the Tenth General Assembly of the International Conference of Asian Political Parties (ICAPP). The Assembly was hosted by the United Russia Party, the governing party of Russia on October 24 - 27, 2018 on two major topics: the “Role of Political Parties in Reducing International Tensions and Combating Extremism” and the “Importance of International Inter-party Cooperation in the Formation and Development of Political, Economic and Social Ties between States”.

2. First of all, we reaffirmed our commitment to the principles and the spirit of the Charter of the ICAPP and previous statements adopted at our biennial General Assemblies held in Manila in 2000, Bangkok in 2002, Beijing in 2004, Seoul in 2006, Astana in 2009, Phnom Penh in 2010, Baku in 2012, Colombo in 2014 and Kuala Lumpur in 2016 that sovereignty, territorial integrity, political independence and equality of all states, peaceful settlement of international conflicts, non-interference in internal affairs, and consensus orientation, among others, would serve as the cornerstone of the ICAPP principles.

3. We underlined the unique and valuable role of the ICAPP, as one of the largest political entities that embrace political parties across the full ideological spectrum in Asia, to lead the way toward for establishing and implementing constructive and cooperative strategies for future-oriented relations of the ICAPP member parties and international organizations in the world.

4. We noted with deep concern geopolitical uncertainty and the worrying trend of the world towards geopolitical rivalries at the international level. Moreover, the risks, including territorial disputes, as well as the rises of terrorism have continued to pose a serious threat to international peace and security. We believed that such negative trends can be defeated through sustainable and comprehensive cooperation among political parties and governments together with international organizations such as the UN active participation and dialogues measures that are consistent with their obligations under international law.

(Common understanding and actions to reduce international tensions and combat terrorism and extremism)

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5. We emphasized that violent extremism, which can be linked to terrorism, undermines peace, security and sustainable development in the world and can generate dramatic consequences for regions around the globe, and for which no nation is exempt from such challenges. Moreover, growing tension in international relations continues to have negative impact on the lives of innocent people throughout the world, with the emergence and expansion of terrorist groups such as Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) and Al- Qaida and their associated groups and entities, constantly testing the resolve and solidarity of the international community.

(The role of political parties in reducing international tensions and combating extremism)

6. We recognized that States and their competent agencies play a central leading role in countering terrorism and extremism both at the national and international levels. We acknowledged that there is an urgent need to take a more comprehensive approach encompassing both the ongoing, essential security-based measures, and also the systematic preventive measures that directly address the sources of international tension and all internal and external conditions conducive to terrorism and extremism.

7. We shared a common understanding that reducing international tension and countering terrorism and extremism is a commitment and obligation under the principles and values enshrined in the Charter of the ICAPP and the United Nations. In this regard, we urged members to translate our common commitment and political will to bring real change into new ways of formulating public policy, so as to reduce international tension and to united our efforts to prevent and counter terrorism and extremism in their respective countries and regions, as well as on global level, in accordance with international law, the principles of the UN Charter, the UN Global Counterterrorism Strategy and relevant UN Security Council resolutions.

8. We welcomed actions of members that have adopted their national strategies to reduce international tensions and prevent and counter terrorism and extremism which set national priorities for addressing the local drivers of international tension and all external and internal conditions conducive to terrorism and extremism. We also encouraged other members that may consider developing and updating their national strategies and legislation to take into account recommendations of the ICAPP statements and the UN resolutions in them. Against the backdrop of rising unilateralism and protectionism in the world, we noted the need to enhance communication, coordination and cooperation, uphold globalization and multilateralism, maintain a multilateral trading system, adhere to free trade and defend the rule-based international trading system and world order.

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9. We shared the view that in strengthening coordination of our common efforts to counter terrorism and extremism and in this regard developing national and regional strategies to prevent and counter terrorism and extremism and reduce international tensions, our members should consider the following elements:

(a) Find ways to strengthen trust between government institutions and communities to prevent real or perceived marginalization and exclusion of people, by way of a comprehensive review of all national legislation, policies, strategies and practices aimed at preventing international tensions and countering terrorism and extremism to ascertain whether they are firmly grounded in respect for human rights and the rule of law, and whether they put in place national mechanisms designed to ensure compliance of this mutually reinforcing goals;

(b) Explore opportunities to put in place alternative dispute resolution mechanisms, such as mediation, arbitration and restorative justice, to resolve conflict and achieve inclusive and sustainable peace;

(c) Engage religious leaders to provide a platform for intra- and interfaith dialogue in order to promote tolerance and understanding between communities, and voice their rejection of sources of tensions and terrorists and extremist ideologies and their propaganda by emphasizing the peaceful and humanitarian values inherent in their theologies;

(d) Support and enhance the relevant participation of women and youth in activities aimed at preventing international tensions, terrorism and extremism by prioritizing meaningful engagement mechanisms at the national, regional and global levels;

(e) Ensure that conflict should be resolved by peaceful means in accordance with the Charter of the United Nations and international law, and in circumstances where military action becomes necessary to reduce international tensions and to counter the expansion of violent terrorist and extremist groups, any such response is in full compliance with international law, in particular with the Charter of the United Nations, including its principle of sovereignty of States and non-interference in their internal affairs, and international refugee law and international humanitarian law.

10. We reached a common understanding on the importance of roles of social media and the Internet in reducing substantially the tensions and preventing the spread of terrorist and extremist ideology and propaganda. In this regard, we recommended that our members consider taking the following measures:

(a) Develop and implement national and regional communications strategies to prevent the use of information and communication technologies, including the Internet, for terrorist and extremist purposes, in close cooperation with social media companies; (b) Ensure that such national legal frameworks comply both with international obligations

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regarding freedom of opinion and expression, and the obligation to prevent the spread of terrorist and extremist ideology and propaganda, including by condemning any public incitement to terrorism, its glorification or apology. (c) Protect journalists, who play a crucial role in democratic societies, by ensuring the prompt and thorough investigation of threats to their safety. (d) Encourage journalists to develop voluntary codes of conducts and standards of dealing with counterterrorism matter to ensure that their professional actions are socially responsible and do not contribute to radicalization of citizens to terrorism and extremism.

11. We recognized the value of regional strategies to reduce international tensions and prevent and counter terrorism and extremism. We shared the common understanding that as international terrorism does not respect borders, national and global action has to be complemented with enhanced regional cooperation. In this connection, we urged members to come together to complement those strategies or adopt sub-regional or regional plans of action to reduce international tension and prevent violent extremism and reinforce their national measures in the following ways:

(a) Strengthen regional and sub-regional organizations including ASEAN, by creating and maintaining regional contact lists of focal points, monitoring the trafficking of small arms and light weapons, and facilitating interstate communication and cooperation;

(b) Enable regional and sub-regional organizations to provide technical assistance to member States in their respective regions or sub-regions in building capacity for preventing violent extremism and reinforcing effective cooperation, for example, on border management.

12. The Members greatly welcomed the initiatives of the Leaders of the two Koreas for the progress toward the denuclearization on the Korean Peninsula and welcomed the Panmunjom Declaration as well as the outcomes of the Summit in Pyeongyang which had led to the easing of tensions and enhancing the prospect for peace and security. They reaffirmed their full support for the Inter-Korean Summit in September 2018 which marked a significant milestone toward the realization of the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula, and the achievement of a permanent peace, security and common prosperity the Korean Peninsula and Asian region in accordance with the International law and the relevant resolutions of the United Nations Security Council and General Assembly.

(The importance of international inter-party cooperation in the formation and development of political, economic and social ties between states)

13. We noted the outcomes of the meetings of the ICAPP General Assemblies, which have affirmed the commitment of Asian political parties to form and develop stronger political, economic and social ties among states through their support to the work of the

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United Nations and their continuing efforts to bridge gaps of understanding and trust among political parties in various regions and continents.

14. We acknowledged the need to continue to expand the practical partnership with the representatives of political parties and institutions from various countries outside Asia, including the Permanent Conference of Political Parties of Latin America and the Caribbean (COPPPAL) and the Council of African Political Parties (CAPP), with a view to enhancing their cooperation and solidarity with the ICAPP. We acknowledged the importance of the result at the Trilateral Meeting among the ICAPP-COPPPAL-CAPP which discussed the meaningful agenda topics of “Processes of Integration, Interdependence and Cooperation” and “Establishment of a Mechanism through the Three Organizations to Monitor the Cooperation” and the need to engage the Secretariat to further study to reflect views of the members on the new naming of the inter-continental cooperation.

15. We recognized further the work of the ICAPP in the areas of democracy, ensuring the equal rights of men and women, combating violence against women, meaningful youth participation, peace and security, disarmament, sustainable development and interfaith and inter-ethnic dialogue, as well as preventing countering terrorism extremism.

16. We took note of the indispensable nature and importance of multi-level cooperation among political parties within their countries and beyond for maintaining the security, stability and prosperity of the international community. We agreed that it would be valuable to take into account the potential inter-party cooperation in the formation and development of political, economic and social ties between states. We expressed concerns over the rise of trade tariffs and related disputes and emphasized the need to resolve the differences on trade related matter in mutually beneficial ways.

17. We also acknowledged the role and responsibilities of the political parties within the ICAPP with regard to promoting peace and international security through various strategies, such as encouraging governments to provide legislative support that could contribute to multilateral cooperation for strengthened ties among nations, given the increased interdependencies between countries which include cross-border critical infrastructure that contribute greatly to the distribution of energy, air, financial services, water supply, public health and human resources. We believe that multilateral cooperation is the cornerstone of regional and international structure and hence expressed concern over unilateralism negating multilateral agreements.

18. We highly appreciated and welcomed the establishment of the Cooperation Agreement between the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) and the ICAPP. We recognized that such agreement in close coordination with, and with the participation of, the Bureau of the Asian Cultural Council chaired by Cambodia would contribute to the expansion of the ICAPP’s role in providing platforms for strengthened cooperation with international organizations, such as UNESCO.

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(ICAPP actions to contribute to the UN Sustainable Development Goals)

19. We also recognized the growing role of the ICAPP Standing Committee and the Secretariat in providing platforms for regular interactions among political parties and UN agencies for the planning of implementation of national commitments, facilitating closer cooperation between the United Nations specialized agencies and national political parties and helping to shape their input to major United Nations processes.

20. We took note of the work carried out upon the request of Member States by agencies and programmes of the United Nations system, including UNESCO, particularly for cooperation in education, science and culture.

21. We decided on actions to be taken by the ICAPP General Assembly, its Standing Committee and affiliated bodies to pursue a more systematic engagement with the United Nations, in order to enhance their cooperation in meeting their common objectives. We also encouraged members of the ICAPP to strengthen cooperation with the UN, by engaging their political parties in efforts to fully support the implementation of relevant United Nations agreements.

22. We welcomed the contribution of the ICAPP to the work of the High-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development, through the participation of political parties, in regular meetings and events on the work to institutionalize the Sustainable Development Goals, as well as through its efforts to encourage political parties to engage in the voluntary national reviews. With this backdrop, we welcomed the positive role of China's Belt and Road Initiative in promoting openness and cooperation among Asian political parties.

23. We further took noted that the ICAPP and the Global Green Growth Institute (GGGI) have agreed to hold the Special Workshop on Green Cities on 30 October-2 November 2018 in Seoul and planned to conclude a new Memorandum of Cooperation during the Workshop.

24. We stressed the importance of closer cooperation between the United Nations and the ICAPP to promote and strengthen cooperation, through political parties at the national level, in regard to parliamentary capacities and the allocation of budgetary resources for the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.

25. We reaffirmed our full endorsement of the Secretary General’s report on the document reviewed by the Standing Committee and the new Bureau amendments of the

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Standing Committee. We expressed full support for the ICAPP’s initiative to obtain Observer status in the UN General Assembly and the partnership with the UN Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC), in order to more actively coordinate and expand ICAPP activities with relevant UN programs and agencies, and called on all political parties in the region to recommend that their respective governments support the ICAPP’s initiative.

26. We acknowledged the importance of the improvement and amendment of the Charter and the need to encourage the Secretariat and the members of the ICAPP to engage in further study and exchange views within a sufficient time frame in an intensive manner. We also noted the need to promote cooperation among political parties for the formation and development of close partnership among states in the political, economic and social fields, especially within the framework of the UN related programs to response to the need to confront grave global challenges.

(Next year’s schedule and appreciation)

27. We recalled, with satisfaction, the ICAPP activities and achievements in the 2016- 2018 reports on the major ICAPP activities produced by the Secretariat and endorsed all recommendations made over the last two years by the Standing Committee and the other affiliated bodies of the ICAPP.

28. We welcomed the decision by the Cambodian People’s Party (CPP) to hold the official launching of the Asian Cultural Council in Phnom Penh on 11-12 February 2019 under the tenure of Samdech Hun Sen, Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Cambodia, as the honorary founding chairman. We also acknowledged the bipartisan initiative of political parties in Sri Lanka to hold the 3rd Meeting of the Asia-Europe Political Forum in Colombo on 5-7 April 2019 as well as the proposal of the New Azerbaijan Party to hold the Youth Wing in Baku in June next year.

29. We expressed our profound gratitude to the people and the government of the Russian Federation and particularly the United Russia Party for their excellent arrangements to ensure the resounding success of the meeting of the 10th General Assembly of the ICAPP. Our special thanks went to H.E. Dmitry Medvedev, Chairman of the United Russia Party and Prime Minister of the Russian Federation, for the support for this historic gathering. We also reconfirmed our deep appreciation for the ICAPP Secretariat’s invaluable role and efficient preparations in organizing the meeting.

Adopted unanimously on this 26th day of October, 2018 in Moscow, Russian Federation

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10. Moscow Statement for the 4th Meeting of the ICAPP Media Forum

1. We, the journalists from the countries which are represented in the Standing Committee of the International Conference of Asian Political Parties (ICAPP), gathered in Moscow, Russia on October 25, 2018, together with representatives of Asian political parties held the 4th Meeting of the ICAPP Media Forum on the sidelines of the 10th General Assembly of the ICAPP.

2. The Meeting was conducted under the theme of the “Role of Political Parties in Reducing International Tensions and Combating Extremism” and the “Importance of International Inter-Party Cooperation in the Formation and Development of Political, Economic, Social Ties between States,” with a special focus on the role of political parties and the media in building an international community, sharing democratic values and dealing with such challenges as terrorism, poverty and environmental degradation, and how to promote communication, interaction and cooperation between political parties and the media in the region.

3. We confirmed our commitment to support the activities of the ICAPP particularly the Media Forum, in enhancing mutual trust and promoting understanding and friendship among not only Asian countries but also countries of other continents and creating an environment for peace, stability and prosperity in the world. In this regard, we underlined our continue support for activities by the Media Forum which are more focused on issues of direct relevance to the daily lives of the peoples in the world. We reaffirmed the commitments in the Seoul Statement (July 2017) to develop an institutional mechanism to encourage more journalists to participate in the Media Forum and to initiate a program fostering mutual exchange among journalists in Asia.

(Freedom of Expression and Reducing International Tensions and Combating Violent Extremism)

4. We acknowledged the importance of international cooperation, particularly networks of political parties in reducing international tensions, countering violence and incitement to violence and encouraging participation in political life based on the principles of the rule of law and respect for human rights. We stressed that the programs and initiative of the ICAPP would ensure the freedom of expression.

5. We reaffirmed the critical role of the media that the freedom of expression can play in reducing international tensions and combating intolerance, and the essential role that the media and the Internet and other digital technologies play in keeping society informed.

6. We noted that a key part of any strategy to reduce international tensions and combat terrorism and violence should be to support independent media and communications diversity. We stressed our obligation to ensure that the media are able to keep society informed, particularly in times of heightened social or political tensions, including by creating an environment in which a free, independent and diverse media can flourish. Any restrictions on freedom of expression should comply with the standards for such restrictions recognized under international human rights law.

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7. We emphasized there should not be any restriction on reporting on acts or threats of violent activities if the reporting itself is not intended to incite imminent violence. We took note of the obligation of the press not to incite or promote violent activities if there is a direct and immediate connection between the reporting and the likelihood or occurrence of such violence.

8. We expressed our shock on the gruesome murder of Jamal Khashoggi in the Saudi Arabian consulate on 2 October 2018. We resolutely condemned any expressions of violence related to the journalists, preventing journalists from conducting their professional activities.

9. We reconfirmed the urgent need to encourage open debate and access to information about all topics, including where they touch upon issues such as ethnicity, religion, nationality or migration, in schools and universities, and in academic, scholarly or historical texts.

(Media Independence and Diversity in the Digital Age)

10. We recognized the essential role that an independent and diverse media, which disseminates a wide range of information and ideas, can play in supporting the functioning of democratic societies, an informed citizenry, and the rule of law, participation in public affairs and accountability of public institutions. We also stressed in particular, the special role of the media in providing quality, accurate and professionally reported news and current affairs information.

11. We noted with great concerns that we are aware of a range of current threats to media freedom, including legal, political, technological, and economic threats; and noted concerns about contemporary legal threats to freedom of expression and the media, including broadening and often ambiguous notions of national security, laws which unduly limit expression online or blocking of websites.

12. We underlined the importance of public trust in and the credibility of the media, the challenges of maintaining media professionalism in an environment where new forms of media are constantly evolving, and the positive role media self-regulatory and/or co- regulatory bodies can play in this respect.

13. We emphasized the importance of trans-national cooperation between media outlets, including quality coverage of issues of international public interest, such as widespread corruption and other practices that undermine democracy around the world.

14. We emphasized that political parties in cooperation with their governments have to promote a general enabling environment for seeking, receiving and imparting information and ideas as a freedom of expression, including through the following measures: a. ensuring that legislation on the right to access information held by public authorities is in place and being implemented; b. providing appropriate protection for privacy and personal data, including through enabling the anonymous use of digital technologies;

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c. ensuring that legislation providing protection to whistleblowers is in place and being implemented.

15. We urged members to request their governments to protect journalists and others who are at risk of being attacked for exercising their right to freedom of expression, to launch effective investigations when such attacks do occur, so that those responsible may be held accountable, and to offer effective remedies to victims.

16. We emphasized to our members the importance appropriate steps to protect digital communication systems against cyber-attacks and to bolster digital safety and security for those who are at risk of such attacks for exercising their right to freedom of expression. We encouraged the interested stakeholders to consider working collaboratively to support an independent, diverse and economically viable media including as a means of responding to the presence of information bubbles/silos.

(Cooperation for Developing Media and Information with UNESCO)

17. We welcomed the establishment of cooperation agreement with UNESCO, which has been providing practical support and effective reference to achieve Media and Information Literacy (MIL) to assist in member countries to adopt national policies.

18. We confirmed that political policies need to engage in reviewing and formulating policies and programs on media and information literacy which UNESCO recommends in order to provide all citizens with critical competence to enjoy life in the 21st century.

19. We expressed the need to adopt the Rules and Working Modalities of the ICAPP Media Forum to improve its existing terms of references.

(Freedom of Expression and “Fake News”, Disinformation and Propaganda)

20. We took note of the growing prevalence of disinformation (sometimes referred to as “false news” or “fake news”) and propaganda in legacy and social media. We also expressed concern that disinformation and propaganda are often designed and implemented so as to mislead a population, as well as to interfere with the public’s right to know and the right of individuals to seek and receive, as well as to impart, information and ideas of all kinds,

21. We reiterated the need for cooperation between governments and political parties in order to foster an enabling environment for freedom of expression, which includes promoting, protecting and supporting diverse media, even under growing pressure due to the increasingly difficult economic environment for the traditional media;

22. Finally, we expressed our deepest gratitude to the United Russia Party, the governing party of the Russian Federation, for the excellent holding of our meeting and warm hospitality during our stay. We also noted, with great appreciation, the essential role and effective support of the ICAPP Secretariat in organizing the meeting.

Adopted in Moscow, Russia on October 25th, 2018

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11. Moscow Statement for the 5th Meeting of the ICAPP Women’s Wing

1. We, the representatives of political parties from 12 countries, attended the 5th Annual Meeting of the Women’s Wing of the International Conference of Asian Political Parties (ICAPP) which was held in Moscow, the Russian Federation, under the auspices of the United Russia Party on October 24-27, 2018.

The meeting was held on the topics of the “Role of Political Parties in Reducing International Tensions and Combating Extremism” and the “Importance of International Inter-Party Cooperation in the Formation and Development of Political, Economic, Social Ties between States”.

2. We reaffirmed the statements in Colombo in 2014, Baku in 2015, Kuala Lumpur in 2016 and all its other statements on women in development and endorsed the conclusions adopted by the Meeting of the ICAPP Women’s Wing.

3. We welcomed and endorsed the commitments of the United Nations in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development to promote gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls, including through Sustainable Development Goal to achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls and the commitments to gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls made in the Sustainable Development Goals.

4. We reiterated the value of the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women1 would contribute to reducing international tensions and combating extremism through providing a strong voice for women and girls at all levels, and promoting their role in promoting gender equality and the empowerment of women.

(Education)

5. We reaffirmed the provisions concerning the pursuit of full and productive employment and access to decent work and social protection for all in the outcome document of the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development, we recognized that men and women workers should have equal access to quality education, skills training, health-care services, social security, fundamental rights at work, social and legal protections, including occupational safety and work opportunities employment, leadership positions and decision-making at all levels.

6. We agreed that one of the most crucial tasks is the improvement of the current situation of girls and young women, noting them to be often treated as inferior and undermining their self-esteem. Negative cultural attitudes as well as gender-biased educational processes including curricula, educational materials and practices, teachers’ attitudes and classroom interactions, reinforce existing gender inequalities.

Normative Aspects of the Work of the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women: Report of the Under-Secretary-General/Executive Director of the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women(E/CN.6/2018/2), 11/12/2017

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7. We reaffirmed that the realization of gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls will contribute greatly to progress in all the Sustainable Development Goals and targets, that the achievement of full human potential and of sustainable development will be possible if and when one half of humanity continues to enjoy and expand their full human rights and opportunities, that it is crucial that women and girls enjoy equal access to quality education, economic resources and political participation within systematic mainstreaming of a gender perspective in the implementation of the 2030 Agenda.

8. We encouraged members to eliminate discrimination against women and girls in the field of education and to encourage their participation in all levels of education in order to eliminate gender inequalities and to eradicate poverty and promote women’s full and equal contribution to development.

(Health)

9. We agreed to recommend that each government, with the support of their development partners and political parties, invest in appropriate infrastructure and other projects, in order to increase health and well-being, relieve the workload of women and girls and release their time and energy for other productive activities, including entrepreneurship.

10. We agreed to ensure universal access to quality healthcare services and information in order to achieve the realization of the right to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health.

(Employment)

11. We encouraged members and their governments to closely cooperate with the United Nations system to support the implementation of gender-responsive policies and programmes, and to take sustainable measures in order to ensure and promote full employment and quality work for women.

12. We also recommended that members develop active labour market policies on full and productive employment and decent work for all, such as the full participation of women and men including persons with disabilities, enact or strengthen and enforce laws and regulatory frameworks that ensure equality and prohibit discrimination against women and increase the employment of women with disabilities.

(International Cooperation to Combat Gender Discrimination)

13. We reaffirmed that achieving gender equality, empowering all women and girls and the full realization of their human rights are essential to achieving sustained, inclusive and equitable economic growth and sustainable development, we reiterated the need for gender mainstreaming, including targeted actions and investments in the formulation and implementation of all financial, economic, environmental and social policies. We believe that strong women make strong families and strong families promote strong socities.

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14. We called upon members to coordinate with the United Nations system and other international and regional organizations, within their respective mandates, and all sectors of civil society to fulfill commitments to intensify their contributions to the implementation and follow-up to the outcomes of the resolutions and declarations and the Programme of Action of the International Conference on Population and Development2 as well as the outcomes of their reviews.

15. We also recognized the mutually reinforcing connection between gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls and poverty eradication in order to ensure an adequate standard of living for women and girls throughout the life cycle, including through social protection systems.

16. We urged members to adopt and implement, as appropriate, legislation and policies that accelerate the full employment of women, including access to decent work, improved wages, social protection and quality childcare, we called upon them to effectively support the recognition, reduction and equitable redistribution of a disproportionate share of unpaid care and domestic work by women, including through sustained investments in the care economy.

17. Given that violence and discrimination against women and girls are a major impediment to the achievement of the empowerment of women and girls, we underlined the need to prevent and eliminate all forms of violence and discrimination against women and girls, including in the world of work, through the strengthening of institutional mechanism and legal frameworks.

18. We encouraged members to review and to fully implement gender-sensitive legislation and policies that reduce, through specifically targeted measures, horizontal and vertical occupational segregation and gender-based wage gaps. We reaffirmed the commitment to women’s equal rights and opportunities in political and economic decision-making and resource allocation, to the removal of any barriers that prevent women from being full participants in the economy and to the resolve to undertake legislative and administrative reforms to give women equal rights with men to economic resources.

19. Recognizing that women and girls account for almost half of all international migrants at the global level and the need to address the special situation and vulnerability of migrant women and girls by, inter alia, incorporating a gender perspective into policies and strengthening national laws, institutions and programmes to prevent and combat gender-based violence, trafficking in persons and discrimination against women and girls.

Flow of Financial Resources for Assisting in the Further Implementation of the Programme of Action of the International Conference on Population and Development: Report of the Secretary General(E/CN.9/2018/4), 02/02/2018

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20. We urged members to ensure the full and equal participation of women in all levels of decision-making on environmental issues, and stresses the need to address the challenges for women and girls posed by climate change and stressed the importance of the full and equal participation of women in decision-making and of gender mainstreaming in the development and implementation of disaster risk reduction, preparedness, response and recovery strategies. Recognizing the need to strengthen the capacity of member governments to incorporate a gender perspective into policies and decision-making, we encouraged all governments to assist and support the efforts of developing countries in integrating a gender perspective into all aspects of policymaking, including through the provision of technical assistance and financial resources.

21. We encouraged the international community, the United Nations system, the private sector and civil society to continue to provide the financial resources necessary to assist Governments in their efforts to meet the development targets and benchmarks agreed upon at the Millennium Summit, the International Conference on Financing for Development, the World Summit on Sustainable Development, the Second World Assembly on Ageing, the Twenty-third and Twenty-fourth Special Sessions of the General Assembly, the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development, the United Nations Summit for the adoption of the Post-2015 Development Agenda.

22. We expressed our deepest gratitude to the United Russia Party, the governing party of the Russian Federation, for the excellent hosting of our meeting and warm hospitality during our stay. We also noted with great appreciation the invaluable support and efficient preparation by the ICAPP Secretariat in organizing the meeting.

Adopted in Moscow, Russian Federation on October 25th, 2018

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12. Moscow Statement for the 4th Meeting of the ICAPP Youth Wing

1. We, the youth representatives of 12 countries, attended the 4th Meeting of the Youth Wing of the International Conference of Asian Political Parties (ICAPP) which was held in Moscow on October 25, 2018 on the sidelines of the 10th General Assembly of the ICAPP under the auspices of the United Russia Party. The meeting was conducted on the topics of the “Role of Political Parties in Reducing International Tensions and Combating Extremism” and the “Importance of International Inter-Party Cooperation in the Formation and Development of Political, Economic and Social Ties between States”.

2. We reconfirmed our strong commitment to expanding collaboration and regular contacts recognizing the mutual benefits and valuable contribution to effective development of inter-state cooperation. We also acknowledged the importance of involving youth-led and youth-focused activities, in the task of the ICAPP at the regional and international levels in reducing international tensions and combating extremism.

3. Recognizing that a youthful population creates significant opportunities for development, we underlined in this regard the importance of the creation of appropriate cooperative policy programs, through collaboration between the ICAPP and the United Nations system. Furthermore, we reaffirmed the importance of implementation of the World Programme of Action for Youth and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development Goals which are interrelated and mutually reinforcing.

4. Acknowledging the need to promote the youth and peace and security agenda, we called upon members to consider ways to explore and promote new avenues for the full, effective, structured and sustainable participation of young people and youth in order to prevent regional conflicts, reduce international tension and address extremism in advance.

5. We further recognized the importance of strengthening intergenerational partnerships and solidarity among generations. In this regard, we recognized the importance of opportunities for voluntary, constructive and regular interaction between young people and older generations in the family, the workplace and indeed society.

6. Noting that the close cooperation with international organizations is a key way to complement national and global action aimed at building national capacities and regional international meetings between officials responsible for youth, we expressed the view that the ICAPP Youth Wing can make a particular contribution and engage in evaluation of action at the regional level, including periodic monitoring of regional youth programmes.

7. We reaffirmed that effective channels of communication between the ICAPP Youth Wing and the United Nations agencies are essential for dialogue and consultations on the situation of youth and implications for the implementation of the Programme of Action. In this connection, the Youth Wing of the ICAPP is keen to contribute to the implementation of the Programme of Action through the identification and promotion of joint initiatives to further its objectives so that they better reflect the interests of youth.

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8. We reaffirmed the need to convene the ICAPP Youth Wing Meeting more frequently to deal with specific and emerging issues faced by young people and to counter extremism and terrorism. We welcomed the decision of the New Azerbaijan Party to hold the next meeting of the Youth Wing in Baku in June 2019.

9. We expressed our deepest gratitude to the United Russia Party, the governing party of the Russian Federation, for the excellent preparations for our meeting and warm hospitality during our stay. We also noted with great appreciation the important role and efficient support of the ICAPP Secretariat in organizing the meeting.

Done in Moscow, Russian Federation on October 25th, 2018

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13. Moscow Statement for the 3rd Trilateral Meeting among the ICAPP-COPPPAL-CAPP

1. We, the representatives of political parties of Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean, and Africa, convened the third Trilateral Meeting among the Standing Committee of the International Conference of Asian Political Parties (ICAPP), the Coordinating Body of the Permanent Conference of Political Parties of Latin America and the Caribbean (COPPPAL), and the Executive Committee of the Council of African Political Parties (CAPP) in Moscow, Russia on 25-27 October, 2018 under the main theme of “Process of Globalization, Integration, Interdependence and Cooperation.”

2. We reaffirmed the valuable roles that the three organizations have developed, considering that the ICAPP, launched in 2000, is an open forum for all political parties currently representing over 350 political parties in 52 countries in Asia; that the COPPPAL, founded in 1979, is a prominent and influential multilateral political forum currently comprising over 60 political parties in 29 countries in Latin America and the Caribbean, and the CAPP, established in 2013, is the main political forum endorsed by the African Union, now representing 58 political parties in 38 countries in Africa. We also reconfirmed our commitment to the intent and spirit of the United Nations Charter for international peace and cooperation, which emphasizes fundamental human rights, sovereignty, territorial integrity and equality of all nations, non-interference in internal affairs, peaceful settlement of international disputes, and international justice. In this regard, we called on all political parties in our continents to further strengthen their roles in governments and parliaments to uphold these principles.

We also reiterated our common position of seeking to expand our cooperation and coordination, expressed in the Jakarta Declaration on the first Trilateral Meeting held in Jakarta, on 22-24 April, 2016 and joint statement on the Second Trilateral Meeting held in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, on November 23, 2017.

3. We noted the need to make further progress and maximize upon the great potential of the Cooperation Meeting among the ICAPP-COPPPAL-CAPP. We have shown that this meeting will continue to demonstrate its valuable role in advancing the process of cooperation, interdependence and integration in our three continents, taking into account positive achievements made at the first Trilateral Meeting in Jakarta in 2016 and the recent Meeting in Tegucigalpa in 2017.

4. We concurred on the creation of a commission to develop and monitor our cooperation, which was referred to in the Statement of the Second Trilateral Meeting issued in Tegucigalpa, Honduras on November 23, 2017. In this connection, we agreed to establish an Executive Commission to closely coordinate our joint activities and programs in order to address common challenges to our peace and economic cooperation in the following ways.

5. We noted that, while increased interdependence among our three continents has brought about positive mutual benefits and advances with increased economic exchanges and communication, it has also produced some negative effects such as vulnerability of

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countries and people to transnational risks. We reaffirmed our measures for solid cooperation to address transnational threats such as violent extremism and terrorism.

6. We acknowledged the importance of trilateral cooperation among the three organizations to cope with such transnational threats while consolidating peace and security and realizing our full potential for development and prosperity.

7. We noted that to against the backdrop of rising unilateralism and protectionism in the world, need to enhance communication, coordination and trading system, adhere to free trade and defend the rule-based international trading system and world order. We agreed to identify and discuss the thematic items which will contribute to promote peace and economic benefits, based on multilateral approach and enhancing the status of youth and women.

8. We recognized the need to expand cooperation and interconnectivity through the Silk Road project in the various fields as part of sincere endeavors to promote peace an common prosperities.

9. We agreed to designate the ICAPP Secretary General in charge of the Common Secretariat to closely coordinate with the Secretariat of COPPPAL and the Secretariat of CAPP and to effectively develop program and projects through Trilateral Cooperation. We also supported launching of the Common Secretariat, taking into account our sincere desire to promote the process of peace building and reunification of the Korean Peninsula.

10. We recognized that while we are witnessing robust global growth in the midst of the trend of increasing interdependence among our three continents, there is a need for further endeavours to come up with measures to avoid a possibility of financial market stress, escalating trade protectionism and geopolitical tensions.

11. We also noted that a cyclical recovery is under way in most regions of emerging economies, achieving a substantial increase in exports, but financial market stress could arise as a result of escalating investor concerns about the credit worthiness of emerging and developing countries, particularly the increase of average corporate debt over the past decades.

12. We reaffirmed that one of the important objectives of the Trilateral Meeting is to enhance economic cooperation and promote integrative process in the global network devising structural economic and trade policies among our countries to ensure investment stability and trade expansion in the future.

13. We recognized that education plays an important role in empowering our people and promoting sustainable development. In this regard, we noted the importance of embarking on projects complementary to the United Nations Decade of Education for Sustainable Development, which is promoted by UNESCO and the UN.

Adopted unanimously on October 26, 2018 in Moscow, Russian Federation

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14. List of Speakers at the Plenary Sessions of the 10th General Assembly

Opening Session (October 25, 11:00-11:30)

Chair: - Hon. Jose de VENECIA, Jr., - Founding Chairman and Chairman of the Standing Committee, Former Speaker of the House of Representatives of the Philippines Moderator: - Hon. Andrey Klimov, Member of the Presidium of the General Council of the United Russia Party and Organizing Committee of the Chairman of the 10th General Assembly of the ICAPP

Speakers: 1. Declaration of the Opening of the 10th ICAPP GA by Hon. Jose de Venecia, Jr., Chairman of the ICAPP Standing Committee 2. Keynote Address and officiating of the 10th ICAPP GA by Hon. Gryzlov Boris Vyacheslavovich, Chairman of the supreme council of the Party United Russia 3. Report on the Major Activities of the ICAPP during 2016-18 by Hon. Park Ro- byug Secretary General of the ICAPP 4. Election of the Bureau of the 10th General Assembly, presided by Andrey Klimov, Member of the Presidium of the General Council of the United Russia Party and Organizing Committee of the Chairman of the 10th General Assembly of the ICAPP 5. Declaration of Adjournment of the Opening Session by Andrey Klimov, Member of the Presidium of the General Council of the United Russia Party and Organizing Committee of the Chairman of the 10th General Assembly of the ICAPP

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1st Plenary Session: The Role of Political Parties in reducing International Tensions and Combating Extremism (October 25, 11:30-13:00)

Chair: - Hon. Andrey Klimov, Member of the Presidium of the General Council of the United Russia Party and Organizing Committee of the Chairman of the 10th General Assembly of the ICAPP

Co-chairman - Hon. Vladimir Pligin, Member of the Supreme Council of the United Russia Party Moderator: - Hon. Hassan Ghafouri Fard, Member of the Central Committee of Islamic Motalefeh Party and Former Vice President of Iran, Islamic Republic of Iran

Speakers:

1. Hon. Andrey Turchak, Secretary of the General Council of the United Russia Party, Deputy Chairman of the Council of Federation of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation 2. Hon. Khuon Sudary, Vice-Chairperson of the ICAPP Standing Committee, Chairman of the Asian Cultural Council and Deputy Speaker of the National Assembly of Cambodia 3. Hon. Hoang Binh Quan, Member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Vietnam and Chairman of the Party Central Committee's Commission for External Affairs, Vietnam 4. Hon. Pimentel Aquilino Martin III, Senator, President, Partido Demokratiko Pilipino-Lakas ng Bayan(PDP-Laban), Philippines 5. Hon. Hassan Ghafoori Fard, Founding President, Foundation for Islamic Development, Member of the Central Committee of Islamic Motalefeh Party and Former Vice President of Iran 6. Hon. Ryu Myung-sun, Deputy Chairman at the International Affairs Department of the Workers’ Party, Democratic People’s Republic of Korea 7. Hon. Anil Kumar Shastri, Chairman of Hindi Department, All India Congress Committee, Indian National Congress, India 8. Hon. Park Young-sun, Member of the ICAPP Standing Committee, Member of the National Assembly, and Former Chairperson and Floor Leader of The Minjoo Party, Republic of Korea 9. Hon. Cevdet Yilmaz, Member of the ICAPP Standing Committee and Chairman for Foreign Affairs of the AK Party of Turkey

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10. Hon. Kentaro Gemma, Vice Director-General of International Department, Japan 11. Hon. Mushahid Hussain Sayed, Vice Chairman and Special Rapporteur of the ICAPP, and Chairman of Central Media Committee of Pakistan Muslim League-N, Islamic Republic of Pakistan 12. Hon. Theo L. Sambuaga, Member of the ICAPP Standing Committee and Vice President of the Party, Republic of Indonesia

2nd Plenary Session: The Role of Political Parties in reducing International Tensions and Combating Extremism (October 25, 14:00-16:00)

Chair: - Hon. Farkhad Kuanganov, Secretary of the Nur Otan Party of Kazakhstan

Moderator: - Hon. Daya Dharmapala Kilittuwa Gamage, Minister of Social Welfare and Primary Industries of Sri Lanka and Senior Deputy Chairman of the United National Party (UNP), Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka

Speakers:

13. Hon. Farkhad Kuanganov, Secretary of the Nur Otan Party of Kazakhstan 14. Hon. Almazbek Atambaev, Chairman of the Social Democratic Party and Former President of Kyrgyzstan 15. Hon. Dr. Lee Hye-hoon, Member of the ICAPP Standing Committee, Member of the National Assembly and Former Chairperson of the Bareun Party, Bareunmirae Party, Republic of Korea 16. Hon Yasuo Ogata, Vice Chairperson, Executive Committee Chairperson, International Commission Japanese Communist Party, Former House of Councilors Member, Japan 17. Hon. Sevinj Fataliyeva, Chief of the Department of International Relations of the New Azerbaijan Party and Member of Parliament, Azerbaijan 18. Hon. Fadi Fawaz, Member of the ICAPP Standing Committee, Advisor to the Prime Minister Saad Hariri for Development Affairs and the Chairman of Future Movement Party of Lebanon 19. Hon. Meng Seng Goh, Secretary General of the People’s Power Party of Singapore 20. Hon. Vijay Jolly, Member of the ICAPP Standing Committee, Senior Leader of the Party, President of Delhi Study Group, and Former Global Convenor BJP Overseas Affairs, India 21. Hon. Dato' Seri Bin Kassim, Member of the ICAPP Standing Committee and Former Minister in the Prime Minister's Office, Malaysia

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22. Hon. Prakob Chirakiti, Former Director of the Party, Democratic Party of Thailand 23. Hon. Hermine Naghdalyan, Member of the Executive board of the Republican Party of Armenia (RPA), Chairperson of the Women’s council of RPA, Deputy Chair of the Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs at the National Assembly of Armenia and Head of the Armenian delegation to the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly, Armenia 24. Hon. Heyam Matar Haddad, General Director of Fatah International Relations Commission, Palestine National Authority 25. Hon. Rufus Rodriguez, President of the Centrist Democratic Party of the Philippines 26. Mr. Abdul Rasheed Mahaboob Batcha, Central Executive Committee Member of the Reform Party of Singapore 27. Mr. Binoy Viswam, Member of Parliament, Communist Party of India 28. Hon. Sunil Bahadur Thapa, General Secretary of the International Affairs of the RPP-D, Nepal 29. Hon. Abukamol Rakhmonov, Deputy Chairperson of the Political Council of Social Democratic Party of Uzbekistan 30. Hon. George T. Georgiou, Member of House of Representatives, AKEL Party, Cyprus 31. Mr. Beka Natelashvili, International Secretary of the Labour Party of Georgia 32. Hon. Somphone Sichaleune, Vice-Chairman (Vice Minister) of Committee for External Relations of the Central Committee of the Lao People’s Revolutionary Party, Lao PDR 33. Hon. Cheryl P. Deloso-Montalla, House of Representative of the Liberal Party of the Philippines

3rd Plenary Session: The Role of Political Parties in reducing International Tensions and Combating Extremism (October 25, 16:30-18:00)

Chair: - Hon. Vladimir Pligin, Member of the Supreme Council of the United Russia Party

Moderator: - Hon. Guo Yezhou, Vice Minister of the International Department of CPC Central Committee, People’s Republic of China

Speakers:

34. Hon. Dato’ Sri Dr. Hou Kok Chung, Member of the ICAPP Standing Committee, Vice President of Malaysian Chinese Association, Malaysia

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35. Hon. Youssef Ahmad, Member of the Central Council of the Party, Head of the Parliamentary group Syria-Russia, Syrian Ba’ath Party, Syrian Arab Republic 36. Hon. Mahbub Alam, Vice President of National Central Committee, Bangladesh Jatiotabadi Shecchasebok Dal and Senior Vice-President BNP Malaysia, Bangladesh 37. Mr. Alexander Romanovich, the Secretary of the Presidium of the party Central Council for International Affairs, the Vice-President of the Socialist International, Russia 38. Hon. Wunna Maung Lwin, Member of the ICAPP Standing Committee and Member of Central Executive Committee of the Union Solidarity and Development Party, Myanmar 39. Mr. Bharat Prasad Pathak, Member Secretary of international relations department, Member of central committee of the Rastriya Prajatantra Party (RPP), Nepal 40. Hon. Hosyar Siwaily, Head of KDP Foreign Relations Office of the Party, Iraq 41. Hon. Manuel Luis T. Lopez, Representative of the 1st District, City of Manila, Nationalist People's Coalition (NPC) of the Philippines 42. Dr. Mohamed Yousife Abdalla, Assistant of Secretary General of the CAPP, Sudan

4th Plenary Session: The importance of international inter-party cooperation in the formation and development of political, economic, social ties between states (October 26, 09:30-11:00)

Chair: - Hon. Kosachev Konstantin, Member of the Supreme Council of the United Russia Party, Chairman of the Committee on International Affairs, the Council of Federation (Senate) of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation

Moderator: - Hon. Ms. Meryem Goka, Co-Chairwoman of the ICAPP Women’s wing and deputy Chairwoman of Foreign affairs, Republic of Turkey

Speakers:

43. Hon. Kosachev Konstantin, Member of the Supreme Council of the United Russia Party, Chairman of the Committee on International Affairs, the Council of Federation (Senate) of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation 44. Hon. Guo Yezhou, Vice Chairman of the ICAPP Standing Committee Vice Minister of the International Department of Central Committee of the Communist Party of China 45. Hon. Daya Gamage, Minister of Social Welfare and Primary industries, Sri Lanka

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46. Hon. Sujata Koirala, Member of the ICAPP Standing Committee, Member of Parliament and Former Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister of Nepal, Nepali Congress Party, Nepal 47. Hon. Dato’ Hj. Che Abdullah Bin Mat Nawi, Member of Parliament, Malaysia 48. Hon. Maria Vasiliadou, Deputy President of the Movement for Social Democracy (EDEK) of Cyprus 49. Mr. Mohammed Al-Dawoodi, Political borough, Iraq 50. Mr. Mustafa Hyder Sayed, Information Secretary of the ICAPP Youth Wing, Pakistan 51. Mr. Alexander Novikov, First Deputy Chairman of International Committee of Parliament of Russia 52. Mr. Arjun Thapa, Head of Department of International Relations of the FSFN, Nepal 53. Hon. Marquez Go, Representative, Lone District of Baguio, Nacionalista Party (NP) of the Philippines 54. Ms. Nadia Choudary, Member, International Affairs Sub-Committee of the Bangladesh Awami League, Bangladesh 55. Hon. Cheryl P. Deloso-Montalla, House of Representatives of the Liberal Party of the Philippines

5th Plenary Session: The importance of international inter-party cooperation in the formation and development of political, economic, social ties between states (October 26, 11:45-13:00)

Chair: - Hon. Svetlana Zhurova, First Deputy Chairman of the Committee on International Affairs of the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation

Moderator: - Hon. Nguyen Manh Cuong, Vice Chairman of the Commission for External Relations of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Vietnam, Socialist Republic of Vietnam

Speakers:

56. Hon. Svetlana Zhurova, First Deputy Chairman of the Committee on International Affairs of the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian, Russian Federation 57. Hon. Morgulov Igor Vladimirovich, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation 58. Hon. Dr. Nalinee Taveesin, Member of the ICAPP Standing Committee, Vice- Chairperson of the ICAPP Women’s Wing, Former Thailand Trade Representative and

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Former Minister Attached to Prime Minister’s Office, Pheu Thai Party, Thailand 59. Hon. Youssef Awad, Member of the ICAPP Standing Committee and Coordinator for Asia and Overseas, Free Patriotic Party of Lebanon 60. Hon. Vafaev Ulugbek Nazarovich, Deputy Chairman of the Central Council of the People's Democratic Party, Uzbekistan 61. Ms. Dr. Samia Raheel Qazi, Director of Foreign Affairs, Member of Women’s Wing of the Jamaat-e-Islami (Islamic Party), Pakistan 62. Mr. Yogendra Bahadur Shahi, Expert of Foreign Affairs and International Relations Department of the CPN-UML, on behalf of Hon. Jhalanath Khanal, Member of the ICAPP Standing Committee and Former Prime Minister of Nepal 63. Hon. Mohammad Asim, Head of Secretariat of the National Coalition of Afghanistan 64. Ms. Mahwish Sheikh, Coordinator Over Seas Committee of Pakistan People’s Party, Pakistan 65. Mr. Md Shazzad Hossain, Assistant office Secretary, Jatiya Samajtantrik Dal-jasod Central Executive Committee, Bangladesh

Summing up work of the sessions (October 26, 14:00-15:00)

1. Report on the adoption of the Moscow Statement by Hon. Mushahid Hussain Sayed, Vice Chairman and Special Rapporteur of the ICAPP, and Chairman of Central Media Committee of Pakistan Muslim League-N, Islamic Republic of Pakistan 2. Report on the Results of the 4th Meeting of the ICAPP Media Forum by Hon. Park Young-sun, Co-Chairperson of the ICAPP Media Forum 3. Report on the Results of the 5th Meeting of the ICAPP Women’s Wing by Hon. Sujata Koirala, Co-Chairperson of the ICAPP Women’s Wing 4. Report on the Results of the 4th Meeting of the ICAPP Youth Wing by Hon. Dato’ Seri Shahidan bin Kassim, Chairperson of the ICAPP Young Wing 5. Hon. Manolo Pichardo, President of the COPPPAL, Dominican Republic 6. Hon. Vladimir Pligin, Member of the Supreme Council of the United Russia Party, Russian Federation

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Closing Session (October 26, 15:00-16:00)

Adoption of the Declaration of the X General Assembly of the ICAPP :

Moderator: - Hon. Andrey Klimov, Member of the Presidium of the General Council of the United Russia Party and Organizing Committee of the Chairman of the 10th General Assembly of the ICAPP

Speakers:

1. H.E. Medvedev Dmitry Anatolyevich, Prime Minister of Russian Federation 2. Hon. Park Ro-byug, Secretary General of the ICAPP 3. Hon. José de Venecia, Founding Chairman of ICAPP and Chairman of the ICAPP Standing Committee

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15. List of Speakers for the 4th Meeting of the ICAPP Media Forum (October 25, 16:30-18:00) Speakers:

1. Hon. Revenko Evgeny Vasilievich, Deputy Secretary of the General Council of the United Russia Party, Deputy of the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation 2. Hon. Kim Chang-gi, Vice-Chairperson of the ICAPP Media Forum, Publisher / Executive Editor of Monthly Chosun and Chosun Weekly, and Chairman of the Board of Shinyoung Fund of Kwanhun Journalists Club, Republic of Korea 3. Mr. Yoon Tae-hyung, Vice-Chairperson of the ICAPP Media Forum and Head of the political desk, News 1, Republic of Korea 4. Hon. Huy Vannak, President of CPP-Union of Journalists Federation of Cambodia, Cambodia 5. Ms. A. Enkhzul, Head of the department for social media & content development of Mongolian People’s Party, Mongolia 6. Mr. Mohammad Mahdi Tinai Tehrani, Second Deputy of International Affairs Department of Islamic Motalefe Party Iran 7. Ms. Merve Sebnem, Vice-Chairperson of the ICAPP Media Forum and Journalist of Daily Sabah, Turkey 8. Hon. Park Jae-ho, Member of the National Assembly, the Minjoo Party, Republic of Korea 9. Mr. Mustafa Hyder Sayed, Information Secretary of the ICAPP Youth Wing, Pakistan Muslim League-N (PML-N), Pakistan 10. Mr. Lucky Ali Moerfiqin, International Relations Department, Golkar Party, Indonesia

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16. List of Speakers for the 5th Meeting of the ICAPP Women’s Wing (October 25, 16:30-18:00)

Speakers:

1. Hon. Karelova Galina Nikolaevna, Member of the Presidium of the General Council of the United Russia Party, Deputy Chairperson of the Council of Federation of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation 2. Hon. Geht Irina Alfredovna, Deputy Chairperson of the Committee of the Council of the Federation of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation on Agrarian and Food Policy and Environmental Management, Russian Federation 3. Hon. Georgina de Venecia, President of the Inang Mahal Partylist, the Philippines 4. Ms. Meryem Göka, Co-Chairwoman of the ICAPP Women's Wing and Deputy Chairwoman of Foreign Affairs of the AK Party of Turkey 5. Ms. Kh. Saikhansanaa, Head of the Department for International Relations of Mongolian People’s Party, Mongolia 6. Hon. Dr. Nalinee Taveesin, Member of the ICAPP Standing Committee, Vice- Chairperson of the ICAPP Women’s Wing, Former Thailand Trade Representative and Former Minister Attached to Prime Minister’s Office, Pheu Thai Party, Thailand 7. Ms. Douangsamone Dalavong, Director General of Planning and International Cooperation Department, Lao Women’s Union, Lao PDR 8. Hon. Run Sovanntevy, Under Secretary of State of the Ministry of Women's Affairs, Cambodia 9. Ms. Dr. Samia Raheel Qazi, Secretary to Director of Foreign Affairs, Member of Women’s Wing of the Jamaat-e-Islami (Islamic Party), Pakistan 10. Ms. Irina Urievna Karamushkina, Member of the Political Council of the Social Democratic Party, Deputy of the National Parliament and Defense Committee, Kyrgyzstan 11. Ms. Frihan R. A. Farrah, Member of Fateh party, Palestinian National Authority 12. Ms. Emmalia Natar Nasution, International Relations Department, Party of the Functional Group-Golkar Party, Indonesia 13. Hon. Hermine Naghdalyan, Member of the Executive board of the Republican Party of Armenia (RPA), Chairperson of the Women’s council of RPA, Deputy Chair of the Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs at the National Assembly of Armenia and Head of the Armenian delegation to the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly, Armenia

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17. List of Speakers for the 4th Meeting of the ICAPP Youth Wing (October 25, 16:30-18:00)

Speakers:

1. Hon. Davydov Denis Aleksandrovich, Member of the Presidium of the General Council of the Party UNITED RUSSIA, Chairman of the Coordination Council of the All-Russian public organization "Young Guard of United Russia", Russian Federation 2. Hon. Sharova Daria Vladimirovna, Head of the international sector of the Central Staff of the All-Russian public organization “Young Guard of United Russia”, Russian Federation 3. Mr. Somkiao Kingsada, Director General of Relation and International Cooperation Department, Lao People’s Revolutionary Youth Union of Lao PDR 4. Mr. Cengizhan Gungor, Vice Chairman of Youth Wing of the AK Party of Turkey 5. Hon. Ha Tae-keung, Member of the National Assembly, Korea 6. Hon. Oh Jae-sae, Member of the National Assembly, Korea 7. Hon. Suos Yara, Deputy Chairman of the ICAPP Youth Wing, Member of Parliamentary and Vice-Chairman of Commission on Foreign Affairs, International Cooperation, Information and Media, Cambodian People’s Party, Cambodia 8. Mr. Mohammad Mahdi Tinai Tehrani, Second Deputy of International Affairs Department of Islamic Motalefe Party, Iran 9. Hon. Nguyen Anh Tuan, Permanent Secretary of the Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union Central Committee 10. Mr. Dato' Goonahlam Subramaniam, Director of Bangladesh-Malaysia Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), Bangladesh 11. Mr. Temirlan Sultanbekov, Representative in Russia, Kyrgyzstan 12. Ms. Chandra Kusuma Dewi, Department of Institutional Relation, Indonesia 13. Mr. Yogendra Bahadur Shahi, Expert of Foreign Affairs and International Relations Department of the CPN-UML, Nepal 14. Ms. Dr. Samia Raheel Qazi, Secretary to Director of Foreign Affairs, Member of Women’s Wing of the Jamaat-e-Islami (Islamic Party), Pakistan 15. Hon. Ramin Mammadov, Deputy Chairman of the New Azerbaijan Party Youth Union, Azerbaijan

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18. List of Speakers for the 3rd Trilateral Meeting among ICAPP-COPPPAL-CAPP (October 26, 09:30-11:00)

Speakers:

1. Hon. Klimov Andrey Arkadyevich, Deputy Chairman of the Committee on International Affairs of the Council of Federation of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation 2. Hon. Jose de Venecia, Founding Chairman and Chairman of the ICAPP, the Republic of the Philippines 3. Hon. Manolo Pichardo, President of the COPPPAL, Dominican Republic 4. Mr. Mohamed Yousif Abdallah, Assistant to the Secretary General of CAPP, Sudan 5. Hon. Theo L. Sambuaga, Member of the ICAPP Standing Committee, and Vice President of the Golkar Party, Indonesia 6. Hon. Prof. Hassan Ghafoori Fard, Founding President, Foundation for Islamic Development, Member of the Central Committee of Islamic Motalefeh Party, Former Vice President of Iran 7. Hon. Dr. Nalinee Taveesin, Member of the ICAPP Standing Committee, Vice- Chairperson of the ICAPP Women’s Wing, Former Thailand Trade Representative and Former Minister Attached to Prime Minister’s Office, Pheu Thai Party, Thailand 8. Hon. Sok Siphana, Advisor to the Royal Government of Cambodia

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Speeches by the Participants of the 10th GA

H.E. Vladimir Putin, President of the Russian Federation, delivered by Hon. Gryzlov Boris Vyacheslavovich, Chairman of the supreme council of the United Russia Party

Dear Friends,

I warmly welcome you on the occasion of the Tenth General Assembly of the International Conference of Asian Political Parties.

Throughout the period of its existence, the ICAPP has fully demonstrated its efficiency and relevance by providing a platform for constructive interaction between various parties on the Asian continent, and by offering excellent opportunities to discuss important issues of world politics and economics, problems of interparliamentary and humanitarian cooperation.

Russia has always welcomed the efforts put forth by ICAPP to find ways for peaceful resolution of regional conflicts and crises, to maintain the principles of justice, equality, and mutual respect in international relations. The leading political party of our country, United Russia, has been making a significant contribution to the work of the Conference, among other things, as a member of the Conference’s Standing Committee.

I am confident that during the upcoming discussions you will be able to exchange practical experiences in party activities, establish new joint projects and initiatives, which will help increase trust and improve understanding between the peoples of different countries. Let me wish you success and all the very best.

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Hon. Jose de Venecia, Jr., Founding Chairman and Chairman of the ICAPP Standing Committee

Excellencies, friends, and colleagues,

On behalf of the Standing Committee of the International Conference of Asian Political Parties (ICAPP), we are honored to add our welcome to those already expressed here for all the participants and guests at this 10th General Assembly of the ICAPP since its founding in Manila at the turn of the century, in the year 2000.

We thank the United Russia Party led by its Chairman and statesman, H.E. Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev, for hosting this conference. May we also greet the highly- regarded United Russia Party officials led by H.E. Boris Gryzlov, Chairman of the Supreme Council; H.E. Andrei Turchak, Secretary of the General Council; H.E. Senator Konstantin Kosachev, Member of the Supreme Council; H.E. Sergey Zheleznyak, Deputy Secretary General for International Affairs; and our colleague in the ICAPP Standing Committee, H.E. Senator Andrey Klimov, Chairman of the Commission on External Affairs and Chairman of the Organizing Committee of the 10th ICAPP General Assembly.

May we also greet our ICAPP Secretary General and Republic of Korea’s former Ambassador to Russia, H.E. Park Ro-byug, Russia’s able Ambassador to Manila H.E. Igor Khovaev, and Philippine Ambassador to Moscow H.E. Carlos Sorreta.

First and foremost, we thank the Russian Government and the Russian people led by H.E. President Vladimir Putin for his sustained remarkable leadership and for welcoming us to this great nation.

President Putin’s hosting of the football World Cup 2018, the most successful football event in the world, demonstrated Russia’s willingness to embrace the global community and the world embraced Russia in return.

ICAPP’s historic gathering in Moscow

We are gathered here in Moscow to celebrate another historic milestone for our International Conference of Asian Political Parties (ICAPP), which now represents some 350 ruling, opposition and independent political parties from 52 countries in Asia.

And in today’s ICAPP gathering, we shall hold concurrently here in this great Russian capital the ICAPP Women’s Wing fifth meeting, the fourth gathering of the ICAPP Youth Wing, and the fourth meeting of the ICAPP Media Forum.

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At the same time, we hold here in Moscow the historic assembly of the ICAPP, COPPPAL, representing the political parties of Latin America and the Caribbean, and the African political parties under CAPP, bringing together the political parties of the world’s three continents for the first time.

Following our successful establishment of the Asia Europe political parties forum in Seoul, 2017, and in London earlier this year, it is now our fervent hope to forge an eventual alliance with the U.S. and Canadian political parties in North America, and thereby give birth eventually to an unprecedented global alliance of the political parties of the world.

And therefore, when ICAPP celebrates its 20th Founding Anniversary in Manila, the place of its birth, in 2020, it is our fondest hope among the political parties of Asia for President Vladimir Putin to address the conference and at the same time make a historic journey to the ASEAN countries.

Embracing ICAPP’s original vision

Excellencies, friends: Eighteen years ago in the year 2000, when forty Asian parties responded to our invitation to inaugurate the ICAPP in Manila, we laid out a vision in our opening remarks.

“To meet these challenges,” we said, “Asia’s leaderships must raise strong political will.

And this political will only the political parties can provide. For, while governments come and go, political parties remain.”

For emphasis we said, “By just agreeing to talk about shared solutions to problems that we have in common is already a major achievement in itself.”

We, the political parties of Asia, representing various persuasions and interests but undeniably those of the sovereign people, are gathered here in this same spirit, a spirit that will drive our endeavours and that our peoples will understand and, in the future, perhaps even acclaim.

For, together, we constitute an instrument for global peace, a vehicle for development, and a force to help solve the festering conflicts in our continent and in the global community.

There are much more protracted conflicts in Asia and the international community, and they are occurring in our seas and in our land borders.

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A most practical solution in China Sea crises

On the maritime disputes, the one that is causing the greatest concern is in the South China Sea, sparked by the raging disagreement and conflicting sovereignty claims.

But we have repeatedly pointed out that there is the potential for a peaceful settlement.

China’s former great leader, Deng Xiaoping, the architect of its economic modernization, already laid out the best possible route that rival claimants China, the Philippines, Vietnam, Malaysia, Brunei and even Taiwan could take. It is to temporarily shelve the issue of sovereignty to pave the way for joint exploration and joint development of the disputed area’s hydrocarbon resources.

We had the privilege to officially propose in 2004-2005, then as Speaker of the House, the three-nation Seismic Agreement officially signed and undertaken by Manila, Beijing and Hanoi. Its aim was to assess the area’s potential for oil/gas exploration and development preparatory to drilling and create the environment for peace and cooperation in the China Sea. Hydrocarbon specialists of the three nations pronounced the area’s prospects “promising”.

Yes, now is the time to revive this agreement so rival nations could convert the area from one of conflict into a Zone of Peace, Friendship, Cooperation and Development. It is obvious as members of the ASEAN family that today, with China, we must find ways and means to jointly develop its oil/gas potential to help lessen our expensive common dependence on distant petroleum sources in the Persian/Arab Gulf of the Middle East.

Imagine the potential for peace in the heartland of the South China Sea if we undertake a joint development of its resources.

From an area of conflict, it could be transformed into a landscape and seascape of small seaports, airports and oil pipelines. Fishing villages and small tourism townships could rapidly rise and the contested areas could become the untrammelled passage way for global shipping, carrying more than 50 percent of the sea freight of the world.

This is perhaps the most realistic, most common-sensical solution to the problem of the Spratlys and the nearby Paracels, and which could be joined by Vietnam, Malaysia, Brunei and Taiwan, and could also be the same formula for the dangerous problem between China and Japan in the tiny isles in the Senkaku Straits or Diaoyu in the East China Sea.

Resource-sharing by other countries

We take the opportunity to suggest that a history of conflict avoidance and joint development involving rival nations abound, perhaps as a result of intelligent, creative, humble and pragmatic diplomacy.

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In the Norwegian Ekofisk oil field in the North Sea—which we visited when we were president of the Petroleum Association of the Philippines in the 1970s—the discovered oil in the sea goes even now to Norway and to Teeside, England and the natural gas goes to Germany.

The oil in the Caspian Sea countries is shared by Iran, Russia, Kazakhstan and Azerbaijan and others, because among them, there is demarcation and practical mutual understanding and goodwill.

Giant Australia and tiny East Timor share the hydrocarbons in the South Pacific in the waters just below Darwin and on the southeast side of Asia’s newest republic.

The 1989 Agreement between Malaysia and Thailand enabled them to jointly develop their disputed waters.

The Guinea-Bissau and Senegal Agreement of 1993 helped the concerned countries develop their disputed areas.

The border conflicts in Asia are more explosive, seemingly more intractable— between India and Pakistan over Kashmir, between India and China in their common mountainous region, between Azerbaijan and Armenia in Nagorno-Karabakh, and the continuing most difficult conflict between the Israelis and Arabs.

More than ever, the political parties of Asia, strongly support the revival of the Arab- Israeli peace process and indeed all similar initiatives in the conflict areas of the world.

Russia-China War averted

Dear friends: Might not the lessons of history again help us?

Even as dangerous a dispute as one between Russia and China, which led the two countries involving hundreds of thousands of their troops poised to pounce on each other in the brink of war, did not explode into full-scale bloody confrontation because of prudence.

As you may recall, the dispute was over a territory in the vicinity of the Ussuri (Wusuli) river in the eastern region of the then USSR, north of Vladivostok, in 1969.

The surprise 1992 Border Agreement between China and Russia rapidly resolved their territorial dispute in the Argun and Amur rivers, where China was granted control over Tarabahov Island (Yinlong Island) and about 50 percent of Bolshoy Ussuriysky Island (Heixiazi Island) near Khabarovsk.

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Asia and the world must never forget one of the foremost leaders in Asian history, China’s “Paramount Leader” Deng Xiaoping and its President Yang Shangkun and the USSR’s President Boris Yeltsin for the classic Border Agreement between China and Russia that resolved what could have been an explosive and ruinous conflict between the two major powers, with Russia still supported by its satellite states at the time and both already wielding nuclear weapons.

As a young journalist at the time, we still remember with nostalgia the great relief of the international community over the classic truce in the Ussuri river.

Indeed, Excellencies, friends, the idea of “win-win cooperation”, of a pragmatic and intelligent sharing of areas and resources could help build a model for lessening tensions and solving conflicts, and avoiding the possibility of war in Asia’s manifold and dangerous flashpoints.

Revival of Six-Party Talks on North Korea

On the Korean peninsula, another major flashpoint, we also ask for the revival of the long stalemated Six-Nation Talks between South Korea, North Korea, the U.S., Japan, China, and Russia to consider reunification of the two Koreas, which is a most difficult but not an impossible task.

In a more recent time, unthinkable as it might have seemed then, the two Germanys and the two Vietnams eventually united by the will of their leaders and peoples, by good fortune, and by the inexorable forces of history.

Sunni-Shiite Dialogue

On the raging Sunni-Shiite issues and the extremist violence in the Arab world, and the emergence of ISIS-ISIL in the battlegrounds of Syria and Iraq and even Libya, one cannot discount the magnitude of the barriers that intense doctrinal separation has raised between the two great schools of Islam.

As we advocated before in our letters to Saudi Arabia’s then King Abdullah and Iran’s spiritual leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, it would be of great relief to our region and the world, if the two leaders of Islam—Saudi Arabia, representing the Sunnis, and Iran, representing the Shiites—could perhaps meet in Mecca and Medina and bring about the beginnings of reconciliation and the end of violence in the lands of Islam, and head off decisively the expansion and internationalization of ISIS-ISIL.

This initiative is most difficult but not impossible.

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The bloody Catholic-Protestant conflicts in Europe that ran for centuries have long since ended, the latest achievement being the relatively more recent “Good Friday” peace agreement not too long ago that ended the brutal wars in Northern Ireland.

Revival of Inter-Faith Dialogue

To reduce politico-religious conflicts and tensions in various parts of the world, we, the political parties of Asia, must urge the revival of the Global Interfaith Dialogue among Christians, Muslims, Shiites and Sunnis, Buddhists, Hindus, Jews and others. We in ICAPP had the privilege to propose this Dialogue for which the U.N. General Assembly gave its endorsement in 2004 at a time when discussion of religious issues was taboo in the U.N. system.

More than ever, we the political parties of Asia, must also join hands today with our governments and civil societies in rejecting extremist politics and radical movements, and in opposing terrorism and violent separatism that have bedevilled a number of countries in our regions.

No to Cold War in the Asia Pacific

Between Moscow and Washington—and between Washington and Beijing—and between Moscow and the European powers—mutual accommodation must be found that gives the parties strategic reassurance and respect for their “core interests.”

Ironically, the hard peace between the earlier Cold War principals—the United States and the former Soviet Union—has enabled the smaller countries to enjoy well over a generation of political stability and economic growth.

For us in Asia, the age of ideological conflict is, and should be, over.

We declare we want no new Cold War in the Asia Pacific. Nor do we wish any state in our home region or in any other region to play either the “American Card” or the “China Card” or the “Russian Card” or the “Isis Card.”

Technically, the Cold War has ended but the misunderstanding and mistrust that fuelled it remain up till today.

It is our collective task therefore to dispel this dangerous misunderstanding to banish mistrust and unfounded allegations and suspicions.

Indeed we are uniquely placed as political parties to work within our countries and to reach out across borders and to hopefully change the course of history and insure the survival of our peoples.

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Support for Silk Road Revival

We in ICAPP support Chinese President Xi Jinping’s historic revival of the ancient overland Silk Road and the 21st Century Maritime Silk Road initiatives, which connect the Mediterranean to the Pacific Ocean through the deserts and mountains of Central Asia and Eurasia, today augmented by criss-crossing modern infrastructure, rail, highways, oil and gas pipe lines, new seaports in the Indian Ocean to support a maritime silk route, and the 11,000 kilometers rail line from Chongqing to Duisburg in Germany, and the traffic all the way to London and back to Asia, unprecedented in the history of Asia and Europe.

Although often compared with the historic U.S. initiative that rebuilt Western Europe from the ashes of World War II, called the Marshall Plan, the Silk Road today has the potential to change this century, and hopefully, it is going to change it for the better.

It is being carried out on a wide scale, it involves countries and peoples across three continents of the world—from Asia to Europe and Africa—and it is free from the politics of ideology that some claim led to some of the historic failures in development in the post-World War II era.

We see in this cross-cultural exchange through trade and economic and political partnership and people-to-people symbioses the major forces needed in the campaign against poverty and the promise of inclusive mutual prosperity in our region, in the world, and in our time.

Historic transformations

Excellencies, friends: Let us point out that our generation is living through historic transformations in global politics.

Nowadays it is difficult even to recall how radical socialism—then enshrined in Moscow—had once inspired so much idealism, devotion, and self-sacrifice, throughout the world.

But the Indian revolutionary M.N. Roy has written memorably of how, in the 1930s, he had waited tremulously every evening for Moscow Radio to broadcast Communism’s call- to-the-barricades—the ‘Internationale.’

And those of us who lived through World War II must remember the heroic Russian armies that, at unimaginable human cost, stopped the Nazi blitzkrieg short of Leningrad, and ultimately brought Stalin with Roosevelt and Churchill to Yalta in the Crimea as one of the victorious ‘Big Three.’

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Even today, much more today, it is our fondest and strongest hope that Russia, the U.S., China, and the major powers in the European Union who were Allies during World War II—United Kingdom and France—and their former enemies, but today, their staunch allies— Japan, Germany, and Italy—to form a genuine global alliance in concert with and under United Nations (U.N.) aegis, to continuously work, without deadline, on a long-term global agenda for peace and for humankind.

Impossible dream, maybe, but the optimists and the students of history believe as we do, that the work must go on and indeed the dream should never die.

Socialism the Ideology

Excellencies, friends: Until now University academics debate the rise and fall of the ideology that one of them has called ‘The Dream That Failed.’

But, in our view, socialism has not shed its core ideas. Instead it has shed them of their conspiratorial and authoritarian aspects. And these core-ideas continue to animate political parties that now style themselves as ‘social democrats.’

In Scandinavia and Western Europe, these electoral parties espouse the social market; champion social safety nets, and form responsive governments.

In East Asia, social democracy’s economic core-idea—the idea of public-private- sector partnership as the poor country’s best path to development—has again and again proved superior to the conservative notion that government governs best that governs least.

In Japan, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand, the Philippines, Indonesia and Malaysia, strong, interventionist states continue to perform what the World Bank calls the ‘East Asian Economic Miracle.’

China’s Challenge

In the same spirit, Deng Xiaoping’s successors in Beijing seem to value Communism the ideology less than they do the cadre of eighty million party members the Communist Party of China (CPC) has raised to lead China’s drive for wealth and power.

And China’s challenge to the global community is really economic rather than ideological or military. And it is that the state-directed enterprise economy is better equipped to overcome the cycles of boom-and-bust that characterize the capitalist economy.

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Best elements of Capitalism and Socialism

Excellencies, friends: In this classic battle against poverty, may we find a way perhaps of tempering the individual initiative that capitalism stimulates with socialism’s compassion for those whom development leaves behind.

We had much earlier suggested sometime back, in addressing the Heritage Foundation in Washington D.C. and later, the United Nations University in Barcelona, Spain, and various international conferences, that there might be merit in bringing together the best elements of both capitalism and socialism in a new applied art of governance—based on what works best for a particular society over a specific historical period considering the persistent and incredibly huge gaps between rich and poor in our time.

The concept could also integrate the finer features of Germany’s “social market” economy, and should perhaps operate under the aegis of a liberal constitutional democracy committed to free elections, free markets, and a free media.

In China, the then paramount leader Deng Xiaoping, hero of China’s successful modernization and opening to the world, advocated—in fact started off—a Chinese economic system neither Marxian socialism nor Adam Smith-type capitalism, but something in between or what has been called “socialism with Chinese characteristics” or “Confucian synergism” which has worked exceedingly well for China, lifting it to the second largest economic power in the world, next only to the United States.

Russia as an Asian Power

Excellencies, friends: Russia has opened to the world community at an epochal time. The center of global gravity is moving away from the Atlantic—where it has been during these last 200 years—to the Pacific.

And it is doing so, not so much because the West is weakening, whether economically or militarily, as because other power centers are growing in relative strength—in Africa, Latin America and Asia.

By 2025, the Asia Pacific will be home to the largest economies, the most powerful militaries, and the most attractive cultures. And Russia—geo-politically both a European and an Asian power—will be principal among them.

So it is in the interest of all our countries that Russia should re-enter the international community in the best possible light.

And it is to this mission of restoring Russia to its rightful place in the concert of powers that ICAPP should dedicate itself during our watch.

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Russia in modern times

In modern times, the new Russia first appeared as an Asia-Pacific power in November 2012, when Vladivostok—capital of the Russian Far East—staged the APEC forum of 21 Pacific Rim states.

Indeed today, Russia is a country of continental dimensions—just as expansive as the Russian people are, in their zest for life.

By itself, the Russian Far East (RFE) is nearly as large as the continental United States and 60% of Russian geography is Asian.

Integration of the resource-rich RFE into the Asia-Pacific economy will enable Russia to take a full part in the affairs of the world’s fastest-growing region.

Russia into the fold

Bringing Russia into the concert of powers will be no easy task.

Moscow has been in a sense a secluded capital, for the most part, since the October Revolution of 1917; and bringing her back into the fold will require the goodwill of all the great powers—the United States, the European Union, China, India and Japan—collectively.

It will require the easing of mutual suspicions and cross-border intrigues— particularly in the Middle East, and in the girdle of buffer states on Russia’s borders that Russia still regards as within its sphere of influence—and in whose future it still has ‘privileged interests.’

It will also mean ending the seemingly permanent political crises in the Middle East and at other global flash points that unavoidably attract the attention of great powers.

In the same spirit, cross-border initiatives of great powers—such as President Xi Jinping’s ‘Silk Road’ venture—must begin to align themselves with the policies of other great powers—crucially on Climate Change and denuclearization.

Constant consultation must become the watchword of the great powers. Ready or not, they must submit to the unrelenting discipline that Globalization imposes.

Russia in the Asian concert of powers

President Vladimir Putin—having pulled the Russian state together—is working to restore his country to great-power status. Russia’s reclamation of its Asia Pacific role will boost multilateralism—particularly in managing conflict and in spurring regional growth.

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Economically, Sakhalin Island’s LNG production is crucial to Japan, South Korea and even Taiwan: between them they consume three-fourths of the world’s LNG supply. Meanwhile, Moscow and Beijing must agree on a way of benefiting equally from their cooperative exploitation of the Russian Far East’s wealth of resources.

Politically, Russia’s leadership participation will be vital to a resolution of the issue of nuclear proliferation and Korean unification; and even to the multilateral settlement of American-Chinese differences in the China Sea.

Hence there are many sound reasons for us in East Asia to wholeheartedly welcome Russia’s re-entry into the Asia-Pacific concert of powers.

The new Pacific Peace

The ultimate task for our statesmen must be to replace the Pax Americana that has enforced stability on our region during this last half-century with a Pax Pacifica founded on the balance of mutual benefit; and freely subscribed to by all the powers with vital interests in the region. After all, the U.S. is and will always be a Pacific power.

Excellencies, friends, in all of these urgent tasks, the leadership and participation of the new Russia and the great Russian people will be crucial.

Like the double-headed eagle on its historic coat of arms, the new Russia looks both West and East. And Moscow’s eastward turn, we welcome most heartily, in ICAPP and in Asia.

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Hon. Park Ro-byug, Secretary General of the ICAPP

Honorable Boris Gryzlov, Chairman of the Supreme Council of the United Russia Party, Honorable Jose de Venecia, Chairman of the ICAPP, Distinguished Representatives of Political Parties,

I would like to begin by expressing my deepest thanks to the leadership of the United Russia Party – thank you so much for your wonderful cooperation with the ICAPP and our Secretariat. This has made the holding of this historic General Assembly possible.

It is my great honour to report briefly on what we have achieved in the last two years. And I would like also to offer some thoughts on what next measures we can take in the near future.

I would say that two words encapsulate (summarize) the activities of the ICAPP: “continuity” and “change”.

The continuity is about our mission and goals to build an Asian Community interconnected with other regions. And by change I mean emerging tasks – and our new partnership with the UN and other regional organizations.

Over the last two years the ICAPP has indeed continued to make great progress, with the holding of a total of eleven ICAPP meetings, including two special meetings on the Silk Road.

And with our meetings it is not just a question of quantity and agenda. Our meetings have also advanced greatly in terms of quality. They have greater substance and have proved even more fruitful. To give one key example, we succeeded in launching the Asia-Europe Political Forum. New members of the Standing Committee, including myself, have been appointed. And we have been striving to generate even greater impetus. We have devoted ourselves to generating a fresh energy, seeking to truly invigorate the ICAPP.

Details of the ICAPP activities and personnel changes that were made and approved during the period between 2016 - 2018 are provided in the report book.

Distinguished Participants!

I am delighted to share with members of the ICAPP one key achievement made last week: that is, the UNESCO General Conference and the Executive Board members accepted

73 Speeches by the Participants of the 10th GA unanimously, with overwhelming support, the establishment of the Cooperation Agreement with us, on 17th October.

The strong support of our members of the ICAPP Standing Committee, including Cambodia, has been a crucial element in this.

As for tasks in the next two years ahead, I wish to emphasize three key directions:

1. First, I hope the members will expand the scope of activities. I look forward to our members taking initiatives, in cooperation with the Secretariat, to plan and implement meaningful programs.

2. Second, the status of the ICAPP is elevated into an international organization of political parties’ network. So, I hope that members will think about and suggest how to upgrade our legal basis to keep pace with the changing world.

3. Finally, I believe that members will think about how to make progress in our partnership with political parties in other continents.

In closing, I am confident that our all members will garner and provide all your energy and wisdom and for further tremendous strides forward.

Thank you very much for your kind attention and for your staunch and staunch and unwavering support for the endeavours of the ICAPP Secretariat. I thank all of you deeply.

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Hon. Khuon Sudary, Vice Chairperson of the ICAPP Standing Committee and Standing Committee Member of the Cambodian People’s Party (CPP)

Honorable Jose de Venecia, Founding Chairman and Chairman of the ICAPP Standing Committee, Excellency Park Ro-byug, Secretary General of the ICAPP, Excellency Vladimir Pligin, Member of the Supreme Council of the United Russia Party, Distinguished delegates, Ladies and Gentlemen

1. I thank you Honorable Chair for giving me the floor. As we all know, we are living in a volatile and unpredictable world that is challenged by a broad range of threats to peace more than we have ever seen for the last generation. We observe a dangerous trend to inward-looking nationalism. We see some governments turning to populism, and others closing their borders to refugee flows. In some regions, we witness a growing number of violent and protracted conflicts and unprecedented humanitarian crisis. Climate change and disasters continue to affect the poor countries and communities leaving them in a persistent state of poverty and hunger.

2. Some powers have given in to the law of the strongest and to unilateralism, leading to the erosion of multilateralism. Trade tensions have been escalating and are getting worse. History has shown that long periods of protectionism have led to regression, wars and conflicts. These are scary signs.

3. Terrorism divides communities, exacerbates conflicts, and destabilizes entire regions. The morphing of terrorism into violent extremism further undermines international peace and security. Over the past several years, we all are aware of the constant preoccupation of the international community in countering terrorism and responding to their attacks.

4. Today, the frontline against terrorism is increasingly more sophisticated as they move to cyberspace. We become vulnerable to politically motivated cyberattacks that undermine our government and our democratic processes. Terrorists are exploiting social media to spread propaganda, recruit new followers and coordinate attacks. Cambodian People’s Party Central Committee Independence, Peace, Freedom, Democracy Neutrality and Social Progress

5. All these are adding several new layers of uncertainty and instability for the world for many years to come. Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen,

6. The issue is how political parties can play a role in reducing international tensions and combating extremism. Allow me to share a few ideas:

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7. First, I believe we should refocus our energy on conflict prevention and seek sustainable solutions to international conflicts. This is the prerequisite for sustainable peace. For many post crisis countries, the peace gains are often fragile and the difficulties in forging true democracy in the face of diverse pressures are enormous. Despite the commendable efforts of the UN peacekeepers in numerous conflicts, they have so far fallen short of finding permanent settlements to such conflicts.

8. Second, we must build the resilience and cohesion of our societies. In the face of terrorism and extremism, short-term responses are needed to manage the crises, but it is our political will to address their root causes that really matters. Political parties must recognise the many roots of conflict, such as poverty and inequality, intolerance, injustice and oppression. It means tackling factors such as prolonged unresolved conflicts, human rights abuses, poverty, lack of opportunities and socioeconomic marginalization. The war against terrorism will not end until the root causes are found and removed and hearts and minds of the people are won.

9. Third, it will not be easy for countries that are multi-ethnic, multi-religious, multicultural and multi-lingual. As such, we must invest in education because it is with education that we will win this fight against obscurantism, into which many countries are plunging into.

10. Fourth, we must rebuild multilateralism. Because all our challenges are global, there is nothing more effective than multilateralism. The transnational nature of terrorism means we need a well-coordinated multilateral cooperation. Cyber security is complex and challenging as it involves multi-dimensional aspects, be they international, political and defense. All these issues can only be addressed globally and multilaterally. Without multilateralism, we will be at the mercy of the law of the strongest.

11. And last, terrorism will not be defeated by military means alone. We need to combine both “counter measures” and “preventive measures”. This means focusing our efforts at the grassroots, where families and local communities are most prone to these destructive ideologies. On cybersecurity, we need to undertake cooperative measures by means of counter-narrative messages, capacity building of our law enforcement, and strengthening cross-border cooperation.

12. Finally, allow me to convey, on behalf of H.E. Samdech Techo Hun Sen, President of the Cambodian People’s Party (CPP), Cambodia’s appreciation to ICAPP for dispatching a mission to observe the election process of the sixth legislature of our National Assembly last July 29, 2018. The election was competitive, with active participation of 20 political parties, under close observation and monitoring of 79,612 national observers from 112 civil society organizations and 539 international observers from 58 countries.

13. I would like to take this opportunity to inform you of the successful outcome of that election, where more than 83% of registered voters turned out to cast their votes. My

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political party, the CPP, has received up to 76.85% of the vote and we now control all the 125 seats of the Parliament. With their vote, the Cambodian people have reasserted their desire for “peace, stability, continued development and prosperity”. This election truly reflected the genuine will of the Cambodian people who instilled their trust in the multiparty liberal democracy.

Thank you for your attention.

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Hon. Hoang Binh Quan, Member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Vietnam and Chairman of the Party Central Committee's Commission for External Affairs

H.E. Mr. Jose De Venecia, Founding Chairman and Co-Chairman of ICAPP Standing Committee, H.E. Mr. Boris Gryzlov, Chairman of the Supreme Council of the United Russia Party, H.E. Mr. Park Ro-byug, Secretary General of ICAPP, Bureau of the General Assembly, Ladies and gentlemen,

n behalf of the Communist Party of Vietnam, I would like to convey the warmest greeting to the political parties and the delegations participating in the 10th ICAPP General Assembly, organized in the heroic, beautiful and hospitable Russia. I would like to sincerely thank the United Russia Party, ICAPP Secretariat, ICAPP Standing Committee for their efforts so that today we can have this opportunity to meet, discuss and share our ideas and experiences.

Ladies and gentlemen,

The 10th ICAPP General Assembly is an important milestone. After 20 years of operation over 10 General Assembly and 31 Standing Committee meetings, ICAPP has achieved consistent development, increasing reputation and role in the region and the world. I would like to congratulate the success of ICAPP, especially in the established role as the only forum in Asia to gather political parties regardless of size, ideology and political tendency, positive role in promoting cooperation, sharing, raising awareness and demand for maintaining peace, stability, and prosperous development of Asia.

Ladies and gentlemen,

These successes and efforts of ICAPP are more remarkable since we are operating in global and regional context full of rapid, intensive, complex transformation and insecure, uncertain, surprise factors. Asia is rising, full of strength and vitality. Asia is witnessing energetic regional movement in economy, politics and security with opportunity for cooperation among countries. At the same time, however, Asia is also the region with potential risk threatening peace and security, stemming from border and territorial disputes, terrorism, nationalism, ethnic conflict, religious conflict as well as existing global urgent issues such as nuclear weapon risk, poverty, natural disasters, diseases, climate change etc.

In order to take advantage of the opportunities, resolve challenges and minimise the risk of conflict, in the spirit of sharing opinions, I would like to express some thoughts as follows:

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First, let’s start with a common and important perception, acting as the foundation of all actions, that is: a peaceful, prosperous and sustainably developed Asia must be the common goal, common responsibility and common contribution of all countries and political parties in the region, regardless of size and development level. Political parties can be different in political tendency, ideology, opinions, even interest, but we need to act in the spirit of mutual respect, peacekeeping as the highest goal, as well as peaceful means for resolving differences, based on the basic principles and standards of international law.

Second, preventing conflict is obviously better than resolving conflict, so prevention must be the focus of all actions. More than ever, political parties ourselves must adhere to this principle, then promote this principle to governments to heighten the spirit of dialogue and cooperation, build trust through consultation and agreement, searching and promoting similarities, create mutual understanding in order to develop concrete political foundation for preventing the risk of conflict between countries. On the other hand, we need to proactively participate and positively contribute to the building and shaping of multilateral institutions, creating unity in diversity which is constructive, equal and mutually beneficial in the region.

Third, peace and sustainable development always go hand in hand. Peace for development and development for peace. Political parties should promote thoroughly solution of socio – economic causes that can pose potential conflict in their own countries. This activity should focus on legislation, planning and implementation of socio – economic policies that promote democracy, equity, equality, support for disadvantaged groups, and environmental protection, thus guaranteeing rights for all citizens based on the United Nations’ sustainable goals.

Forth, our future depends on the youth. In every country, the youth is a great force, playing very important role in developing their own countries, peacekeeping and preventing conflict. Therefore, the youth has the decisive role in the future of each nation state, as well as the future of Asia. We request political parties to create favourable conditions to foster exchange and sharing activities among our young political leaders and youth organizations to cultivate mutual understanding, build trust, and raise common awareness of the youth in the need for sustainable peace. This is the important foundation for closer cooperation among political parties in the future, thus positively contribute to the development of cooperation and friendship relation among nations – which is a very important factor in maintaining peaceful, cooperative environment and preventing conflict.

Ladies and gentlemen,

Peace, freedom and prosperity are always the aspiration of all nations. With experience from the long and difficult struggle for independence and freedom in the past, we understand deeply the value of peace. Therefore, in the last decades, we have been consistently endorsed the United Nations Charter, basic principles of international law in

79 Speeches by the Participants of the 10th GA resolving international dispute through peaceful means. Again, I would like to strongly affirm the desire of the Communist Party of Vietnam in strengthen the cooperation and friendship relations with regional and global political parties, based on the principle of respecting independence, sovereignty, equality, mutual respect, non-interference in each other’s internal affairs, striving for peace, cooperation, development and social progress. At the same time, as a member of ICAPP Standing Committee, the Communist Party of Vietnam is fully aware of the role and responsibility in promoting the common goals of ICAPP, sharing the common opportunities and challenges, enhancing understanding, trust and cooperation among political parties in the region, keeping the environment of peace, stability and prosperous development in the continent and the world.

I hope and believe that through the forum of the International Conference of Asian Political Parities (ICAPP), we shall get closer to each other, together contribute to create a peace spanning across the region and the world.

May our 10th General Assembly be successful!

Thank you.

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Hon. Hassan Ghafoori Fard, Founding President, Foundation for Islamic Development, Member of the Central Committee of Islamic Motalefeh Party and Former Vice President of Iran

Thank you Mr. Chairman Excellencies Honorable delegates Distinguished Ladies and Gentlemen

Good Morning

I am very glad to be here in beautiful city of Moscow, the capital city of the country of Russia. I first want to thank our great host, The United Russia Party, for excellent performance of the 10th general assembly of ICAPP.

I like also to thank our distinguish chairman, the founding chairman of ICAPP, his Excellency Jose De Venecia Former speaker of the Philippine house of representative.

Because we are very short of time, I only mention some points about “the key roles of political parties in a democratic countries and their affects in reducing tension and combating extremism”.

First of all, Increasing the level of participation:

The presence of different political parties with different ideologies and different ways of handling social, economical, cultural, scientific … problems will pull the different people with different ideas to politics and that means higher participation in elections and better outcome of the elections. These different people will take part in any decision making meetings and put forward their ideas and try to attract people and inform them about their ideas and ways and means of solving problems and of course, the higher participation means a better solution to the problems that country may face. If every and any citizen of the country finds an organization or institute where he can talk about his ideas and the way of thinking and try to attract other people to the way of his thinking then he or she does not have to go to the underground organizations or to take gun to talk about his thinking. A multi-party democracy has different political parties, an aspect that offers citizens a wide range of parties to choose from depending or their needs and performances.

1. Promote democratic governance: The presence of many political parties makes it easy for a country the transition of one government to another. This is because they encourage democratic governance and provide a broad range of candidates for citizens to choose from during elections. They offer a platform

81 Speeches by the Participants of the 10th GA through which citizens shape the future of their country by allowing more people to participate in political processes and they do not have to use gun to talk about their ideas.

2. Educates citizens on governance issues: Political parties educate people on important national issues such as corruption, democratic rights and responsibilities, and public service delivery. They also sensitize citizens on possible solutions to national issues through platforms like political rallies, social media, newspapers, radio, television … among others and it shows the right way for changes.

3. Promote respect of individual choices: The existence of political parties in itself draws respect to opposition parties and human rights. They do this by amplifying the political right of citizens to belong to political parties of their choices. This means that parties constituting opposition in the national or country assemblies are representatives of citizens.

4. Oversight ruling government: Political parties outside government constitute the opposition in parliament and country assemblies. The opposition serves as a watchdog to keep the ruling government on toes. It monitors government activities and evaluates its performance on behalf of citizens, of importance, the opposition also plays a critical role in ensuring that the government considers the needs of the people when allocating and spending revenue and budget. It runs a shadow government that promises to deliver better services where the ruling government fails.

5 Characteristics of “Good Governance”:

1. Participation: All men and women should have a voice in decision making, either directly or through legitimate intermediate institutions that represent their interests. Such broad participation is built on freedom of association and speech, as well as capacities to participate constructively.

2. Rules of Law: Legal frameworks should be fair and enforced impartially, particularly the laws on human rights.

3. Transparency: Transparency is built on the free flow of information. Processes, institutions and information are directly accessible to those concerned with them, and enough information is provided to understand and monitor them.

4. Responsiveness: Institutions and processes try to serve all stakeholders.

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5. Consensus orientation: Good governance mediates differing interests to reach a broad consensus on what is in the best interests of the group and, where possible, on policies and procedures.

6. Equity: All men and women have opportunities to improve or maintain their well-being.

7. Effectiveness and efficiency: Processes and institution produce results that meet needs while making the best use of resources.

8. Accountability: Decision-makers in government, the private sector and civil society organizations are accountable to the public, as well as to institutional stakeholders. This accountability differs depending on the organizations and whether the decision is internal or external to an organization.

Thank you for your patience

I stay your friend now and forever

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Hon. Ryu Myung-sun, Deputy Chairman at the International Affairs Department of the Workers’ Party, Democratic People’s Republic of Korea

Esteemed Delegates,

I would like to express my thanks to the Preparatory Committee and the General Council of United Russia that hosted this meeting for inviting us to the 10th General Assembly of the International Conference of Asian Political Parties.

I also extend my greetings to the delegations and delegates of political parties present here.

It is a common desire and aspiration that the humankind has long cherished to live in a peaceful and stable world free from war and destruction, confrontation and conflict.

Peace and Stability have a greater meaning than anything for the Korean people who have lived the history of confrontation caused by national division, military threat and unprecedented sanctions and preasure which are attributible to outside forces for more than seven decades over the century.

Thanks to the firm will and resolve of Comrade Kim Jong Un, chairman of the Workers’ Party of Korea (WPK) to eradicate the historical relations of hostility on the Korean peninsula and open up a new prospect of national reunification, prosperity and peace on the Korean peninsula, dramatic events that we could not have imagined to happen took place on the Korean peninsula this year.

As a result of a series of summit meetings and talks that Chairman of the WPK held with the leaders of south Korea, China and the United States, a new trend of detente, peace and prosperity has found its path and place on the Korean peninsula and we are seeing its growth.

Three historic inter-Korean summits took place in less than five months since last April and Panmunjom Declaration and September Pyongyang Joint Declaration were adopted. They are followed by regular dialogues in different fields including political, military and humanitarian dimensions as well as on sports and cultural exchange between the north and south, and consecutive outcomes are produced winning support and welcome from the entire Korean nation and the international community.

The DPRK-U.S. Joint Statement agreed and adopted at the historic first-ever DPRK-U.S. summit and talks in Singapore on June 12 embraces all fundamental matters for the ultimate solution of the Korean peninsula issue including the ones of terminating the relations of hostility between the DPRK and the U.S. that served as the root cause of decades-long tension

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As a result of the three historic DPRK-China summits, the DPRK-China friendship with a long history and tradition is improving on a new high stage to meet the requirements of the times and making substantial contribution to peace and stability on the Korean peninsula.

Once the joint documents signed between the north and south of Korea and between the DPRK and the U.S. are implemented, the current atmosphere of detente will permanently settle on the Korean peninsula as a lasting peace and eventually, the Korean peninsula that used to be the most dangerous hot spot of the world will become a wellspring of peace and prosperity that contributes to ensuring security in Asia and beyond.

It is quite logical that as the tensions subside on the Korean peninsula and in its vicinity, the regional peace and stability will become more durable, and it will ultimately lead to peace and stability of Asia and the world in line with the common interests of the humankind.

The WPK that regards the improvement of people’ s livelihood as the supreme principle of its activities has put forward a new strategic line of channeling all efforts into economic construction at the 3rd plenary meeting of the 7th Party Central Committee and this line is welcomed and fully supported by the world people who aspire after peace and development.

The international community should make a due response to the resolve of the WPK and the goodwill measures of the DPRK toward detente and peace on the Korean peninsula and should support and encourage the Korean people in their struggle to concentrate all their efforts on economic construction. Independence, peace and friendship are the consistent foreign policy principle of the WPK and the DPRK.

In the future, too, the WPK will develop good neighborly relations with all countries and peoples that respect the sovereignty of the DPRK and that are friendly toward us, and will continue to render positive and constant efforts to safeguard peace and security of the Korean peninsula and the region as well as the whole world.

Thank you,

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Hon. Anil Kumar Shastri, Chairman of Hindi Department, All India Congress Committee, Indian National Congress, India

Founder Chairman of ICAPP and Chairman of the ICAPP Standing Committee Mr. Jose de Venecia, dignitaries on the dais, delegates belonging to different political parties of Asia, ladies and gentlemen.

At the outset, I would like to express my gratitude on behalf of the President of Indian National Congress Mr. Rahul Gandhi for having invited our party to address the 10th General Assembly of ICAPP being held in the beautiful city of Moscow during October 24 to 27, 2018. I am grateful to the United Russia Party for extending the best hospitality to all of us.

The topic chosen for this General Assembly is very apt and relevant.

I have a strong belief that the Political parties are directly connected to the people and are fully aware of their aspirations and ambitions. When regional aspirations are not met, the unease among people may ultimately lead to extremism. This could also create a terror mindset particularly if such unease in the society is curbed through violence.

Terrorism has no religion because not even a single religion on this planet preaches or advocates violence. The role of parties in the opposition is as important as those who are ruling. It is often seen that the opposition tries to vitiate the atmosphere by blowing a problem out of proportion to show the Govt. or the ruling party in poor light. In the process, instead of the problem getting resolved it gets worse and at times beyond anybody’s control.

The Govt. or the ruling party also must pay heed to the views of the opposition. They should learn to take them into confidence and seek their views and advice. They should constitute Govt. committees comprising of opposition parties. In other words, they should jointly face the problem and seek its solution. They should approach the extremist groups for an across the table dialogue. Their grievances must be properly understood and the extremists should be given the assurance and confidence to meet with their aspirations and desires whether it be regional or religious.

Political parties can play an important role in brokering an end to conflict, mediating bargaining over the nature of the political settlement and shaping the post-conflict state. Indeed, parties are unique among political institutions in their potential to give political expression to grievances that may otherwise be expressed through violence and to aggregate and articulate the interests of citizens during both peace negotiations and transition processes, as well as more broadly in post-conflict political governance and statebuilding. However, in practice political parties frequently do not play such a positive role and in some contexts

86 Speeches by the Participants of the 10th GA actively undermine peace. Such failure is due both to constraints imposed by the broader political and institutional context and to the internal weaknesses of parties themselves.

However, it is also the severe internal weakness of political parties that prevents them from contributing to peacebuilding in many conflict-affected and post-conflict contexts.Such parties tend to be institutionally thin; have limited organisational or political capacity, little presence beyond the capital, and limited membership; and are only active at election time. They often do not have coherent ideologies or policy agendas to which citizens can hold them to account, lack internal democracy, and are highly personalised around “charismatic leaders who monopolize power and do not tolerate dissent” (Kumar & De Zeeuw, 2008: 278). Moreover, the precarious financing of many parties in conflict-affected contexts limits their ability to reach out to citizens and makes them more likely to seek illicit funding sources. This institutional, policy and financial weakness limits parties’ ability to deliver effectively on any of their functions and certainly reduces their potential as peacebuilders.

I would conclude by appealing to all political parties to keep politics and self interests aside for a while and be honest in resolving the major problem of international tensions and combating extremism.

I once again thank the United Russia Party for inviting the Indian National Congress to this conference.

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Hon. Park Young-sun, Member of the ICAPP Standing Committee, Member of the National Assembly, and Former Chairperson and Floor Leader of The Minjoo Party, Republic of Korea

Good morning. I am Park Young-sun, member of Democratic Party and an ICAPP representative from the National Assembly of the Republic of Korea.

It is a great honor and privilege for me to be here in Russia to take part in this discussion along with other members of the ICAPP.

The Republic of Korea has experienced a very special year, highlighted by various efforts to overcome the extreme conflicts and confrontation with North Korea and to move towards a new future of lasting peace.

Today, I am here to talk about peace and the journey undertaken by Democratic Party to bring that peace to fruition on the Korean Peninsulas.

Looking back in history, no sooner was independence restored to the Republic of Korea than the country was divided. With North Korea’s invasion of South Korea in 1950, the Korean War broke out, soon reaching international proportions with the direct or indirect participation of 71 countries, including the United States, the Soviet Union, and China. When the war ended with an armistice agreement, it left open the eventual possibility of war on the peninsula. Because the war was never formally ended, the country has always lived with the possibility of another war breaking out and exacerbating into an international war.

For this reason, inter-Korean dialogues and an end to the armistice would not only be symbolic of peace in the Far East, but would herald a new future for South Korea, which, today, is the only divided country in the world.

In fact, it was Democratic Party that made possible the transition from a dictatorship to a democratic government in Korea. Since it was established in 1955, Democratic Party has advocated democracy, freedom, equality, human rights, and other universal human values as its key policy objectives.

During the ten years between 1997 and 2007 when South Korea was under democratic rule, it appeared that these universal values were being realized, and the risk of war was giving way to peace on the Korean Peninsula. However, in the past nine years when Democratic Party was not in power, democracy regressed and the road to peace on the Korean Peninsula was blocked.

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In an outcry for justice, people took to the streets and staged candlelight demonstrations. President Moon Jae-in and the Democratic Party government were elected on the back of these very candlelight vigils. And as soon as he took office, President Moon began working tirelessly to bring justice and peace on the Korean Peninsula.

The results were two inter-Korean summits, one on April 27 and the other on May 26, and more efforts have been made to bring in the United States and neighboring countries to the process of establishing peace on the Korean peninsula. Such efforts have served as an intermediary for the first North Korea-U.S. summit on June 12. And a second North Korea- U.S. summit may be on the horizon.

Though it will take time, the Korean Peninsula has chosen the path towards a durable peace by removing the possibility of an international war, which will directly or indirectly affect not just the two Koreas, but also the United States, China, Russia, and Japan, and other concerned nations.

Democratic Party Presidents were able to mitigate the risk of war and build a bridge towards peace on the peninsula because of the party’s steadfast dedication to democracy, freedom, equality, human rights, and peaceful unification.

I am confident that, based on the experience of Democratic Party, all political parties can support the international society to move towards peace and prosperity by coherently pursuing universal values of humanity regardless of changes in their political environment.

Today, South Korea’s Democratic Party and the Moon Jae-in Administration are doing their utmost to remove the risk of war and bring peace on the Korean Peninsula. The efforts of the ROK government and Democratic Party to achieve peace, unification, and prosperity on the peninsula will lead the way for world peace and co-prosperity.

It is now time for nations of the world to join together in response to Korea’s efforts. Above all, peace is the most precious value that must be shared by all the people of the world. As we join together in the pursuit of peace, I look forward to your continued support.

Thank you.

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Hon. Cevdet Yilmaz, Member of the ICAPP Standing Committee and Chairman for Foreign Affairs of the AK Party of Turkey

Mr. Chairman, Distinguished Participants,

It is my pleasure to be here at the General Assembly of the ICAPP. I would like to thank the United Russia Party and the ICAPP for the kind invitation and congratulate you both for the excellent organization.

I would like to convey the regards and good wishes of His Excellency, President, Recep Tayyip Erdoan to all the participants here today. I hope that, this meeting will enable us to exchange views on the important global issues. I am given the valuable opportunity to share with you our views and experiences.

Turkey strongly believes in solving problems through dialogue and diplomacy.

Every nation in the world faces different internal and external problems. As hard and excruciating as the problems may appear to be, they are not insoluble. A serious reckoning is needed to address them.

Extremism and radicalism are the malaise that we have to face and find solution. These pose threat to our future generations and render them vulnerable to manipulation.

The world is facing challanges and risks such as armed conflicts, civil wars, humanitarian crisis, economic inequalities, lack of resources and so on. Terrorism and all forms of conflict breed on these vulnerabilities.

We need to address the root causes of terrorism and extremism.

Correcting economic and social injustices , expanding an inclusive system of education, a more tolerant culture and better governance at all levels are important remedies for extremism. In addition to government to government dialogue in all these areas, interparty dialogue is extremely important. Parties are the kitchens for policies and their dialogue would be very helpful for international cooperation.

Ladies and Gentelmen,

Turkey, due to its geographical position, and cross-border transitivity, has been a one of the major countries to be affected by radicalisation of different actors.

Turkey has time long experience of fighting radicalisation and violent extremism in the past.

We have been actively engaging in the fight against multiple terrorist organizations such as the DAESH, PKK/YPG/PYD and FETO.

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Today, FETO can be considered as a “new generation” terrorist organisation, staging the July 15 coup attemp which led to the loss of 250 innocent lives and 2500 injured.

This terrorist organisation is a serious threat not only for Turkey, but for all these countries with its hidden agenda.

No terrorist group should be supported or justified. This is infact the utmost test of sincerity.

Terrorism poses a major threat to international peace and security. It can only be addressed through effective international cooperation. Only joint action and solidarity can lead to a more secure and peaceful world and a strong interest dialogue would give strength to international co-operation.

Terrorism recognises no borders, no ethnicity, no religion, no sectarian identity and no regional borders. Fight against terrorism should also have this flexibility.

Distinguished Participants

Peaceful resolution of conflicts, through mediation is an aim we follow.

Turkey is a stronghold of peace, stability and security in the region and beyond.

We are involved in our neighbourhood as well as in international platforms such as UN, OSCE and Organization of Islamic Cooperation. We are working together in ASEAN as well.

We are pursuing an active and humanitarian foreign policy by taking initiatives to improve human condition, prevent or peacefully end conflicts and ease human suffering in different parts of the world. Our common initiative with Russia to contain the humanitarian Crisis in Idlib, Syria is a very good example.

Hosting 3.5 million Syrian refugees we strongly support the political process in Syria, with a prospect of reconstruction and reconciliation in this very prolonged conflict.

Turkey is also very active in humanitarian and development assistance in various part of the world. Last year we have spent 8.07 billion dollars for humanitarian assistance.

Ladies and Gentlemen,

Today, we need peace and security more than any other time in history. These are the basic rights for every human being.

We believe that regional and global security will only be possible when all the countries and political parties from all ideological spectrum work together. We hope that this meeting will be a good starting point.

Thank you very much for your kind attention.

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Hon. Kentaro Gemma, Vice Director-General of International Department, Democratic Party For the People, Japan

Honorable chairpersons and distinguished delegates, it gives me a great pleasure to participate and speak at the 10th General Assembly of the ICAPP on behalf of the Democratic Party For the People of JAPAN. I would like to extend my deepest gratitude towards the United Russia Party for hosting this significant meeting.

I would like to take this opportunity to introduce our party, the Democratic Party For the People. DPFP was formed on May 7 this year as a result of a unification agreement between the Democratic Party and the Party of Hope. Our party is founded on the basic principles of “freedom”, “mutual coexistence” and “responsibility for the future”. Our ideal is the achievement of a free society based on just, fair and transparent rules that respects human rights as well as diverse values and lifestyles, a society built on mutual coexistence where people accept each other and no one is excluded, and a society that fulfills its responsibility to future generations.

We have inherited the membership of ICAPP which was held by the Democratic Party of Japan since 2000 and hope engage in and contribute to the discussions of ICAPP.

In order to address the topics for this conference, I would like to raise some points that the DPFP considers important in reducing international tension and combating extremism, and forming political, economic and social ties among states.

Firstly, we must make efforts to avoid conditions that may lead to international tension and extremism. When an individual, group, or country is threatened, discriminated, harassed, deceived or receives unfair treatment it can become the root of hostile reaction. In order to avoid such circumstances, human rights should be respected and discrimination of all kinds prohibited. It is also important to promote fair markets, equal opportunity and equal treatment in order to mitigate the widening income gaps. Of course official diplomacy is significant to build trust between countries but we acknowledge interaction on the parliamentary level and grass-root level are equally important. We should increase academic, cultural, sports and youth exchange to enhance mutual understanding. We should work together to find solutions for common challenges, such as climate change, environmental issues, problems arising from rapidly ageing population, accommodating new innovative technologies to our society, improving the quality of education and employment. It is important to improve the livelihood of our people, especially children who will play important roles in the future. This could be done regardless religion or ideology.

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Secondly, we must strengthen multinational mechanisms and confident building measures to prevent international tensions and protect our countries from terrorist attacks.

The ongoing initiatives to establish communities in Asia such as ASEAN and SAARC are a welcome development. Also, initiatives to establish and vitalize multilateral or regional organizations or schemes such as ReCAAP or ARF, are also significant.

Thirdly, Asia should show our united resolve against terrorism and infringement of human rights. Nations must adhere to international law and fulfill commitments concerning international agreements.

So how can political parties contribute in these efforts? f shortsighted national interests occupy regions, these regional frameworks will immediately face serious challenges.

Governments tend to pursue immediate benefits and shortsighted national interests and if these interest occupy the organizations, the regional frameworks will face serious challenges and may even become the very source of tension in the region. On the other hand, political parties reflect the interest of the people expressed in elections and could represent diversity and it can be kept a distance from political tug of war between the ruling and opposition parties in a nation. Political parties can interact and communicate in a more informal matter and seek solutions. Therefore, we should not spare our efforts as parliamentarians to make maximum efforts which will have mutual benefits in the long run.

I hope the distinguished participants share my view and that we can work together for the security and prosperity of our region. Lastly, let me repeat my deepest appreciation for the people of Russia who cordially hosted this General Assembly and all those. I hope this Assembly will contribute to the peace and prosperity of the Asian region. Thank you very much.

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Hon. Theo L. Sambuaga, Member of the ICAPP Standing Committee and Vice President of the Golkar Party, Republic of Indonesia

Chairman of ICAPP, Secretary General, United Russia Party leaders and distinguished delegates,

Regarding the sub item of Combatting Violent Extremism, as an association of political parties it is the nature of ICAPP to reach it goals based on Democracy and peaceful way. In this regard we should push our governments to enhance their cooperation in combatting violent extremism or terrorism in its all manifestations. This Includes methods to prevent them from barbarian actions before it happens.

Ladies and gentlemen

Nowadays terrorism has increased its international network and applied modern methods including advance technology. Peoples and government cannot loose, they can and should defeat terrorism if they keep enhancing their cooperation.

Mr. Chairman and distinguished delegates,

We need not only to reduce international tensions in this item but we should work hard and hand in hand to try to come to solution.

In the theme of reducing international tensions, thanks to the progress of talk and dialog which has been going on Korean Peninsula issue. We should put forward the effort of complete denuclearization and reach peaceful and eternal reunited Korea. We believe only through dialog and peaceful ways, this noble goal will be reached.

In this regard we believe, that on the South China Sea dispute issue, we should push all countries involved in these long existing disputes to continue their dialog and prevent from violent action particularly military provocation.

We believe that our friendship, our solidarity and cooperation particularly in the Southeast Asia region can come with a more peaceful solution. We also believe that international issues should be addressed by multilateralism way and at the end bilateralism will of course strengthen and complete the solution.

In this regard, the US withdrawal from Paris Agreement is only weakening global cooperation in addressing climate change issue. Its withdrawal from UN Human Rights Commission few months ago also reducing world effort to handle the human rights violation which is still

94 Speeches by the Participants of the 10th GA occurred in many part in the globe. Only last week the US withdrawal from Nuclear Profiletary Agreement with Russia, only threaten peace and stability which we are facing now. We should ask the US Congress and its government to reconsider to return to these commitments.

Ladies and gentlemen,

We should harness effort to convince governments particularly the powerful nations to prefer multilateralism rather than unilateralism. This apply also to the US-China Trade War which is still going on and threatening the balance and growth of economy and all the efforts that we try to do now to save the planet. In this regard, we also should harness the effort to convince our governments to enhance cooperation and make ICAPP as the primary mover to do the task.

Finally, I would like to express my sincere appreciation and great gratitude to the United Russia Party as the host of this conference for their warm and kind hospitality, to the people and government of Russian Federation and to all delegates who are present here at this conference.

Thank you very much.

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Hon. Dr. Lee Hye-hoon, Member of the ICAPP Standing Committee, Member of the National Assembly and Former Chairperson of the Bareun Party, Bareunmirae Party, Republic of Korea

Good morning.

I am Lee Hye-hoon, lawmaker and member of the BareunParty of the Republic of Korea.

Recently, an increasing number of extremepopulists around the world has come to control state affairs on the back of public support. Extremism has no discrimination of ideologies or political positions, ranging from rightist populists—who take advantage of public anger over ever-deepening economic inequality and poverty, and the need for a culprit, to resort to antidemocratic rhetoric and actions and instigate hatred and discrimination against minorities and vulnerable social groups—to leftist populists—who, in a desperate move to stay in power, excessively abuse welfare policies and programs to the brink of national bankruptcy.

In democratic societies, extreme populists are elected by vote, but they soon reveal their authoritarian behavior after election, causing democracy to erode and advancing the decline of their nation.

Extreme populists come to power when political parties fail to fulfill their gatekeeping function. In the past, political parties had served as gatekeepers, keeping high-risk figures from gaining nominations. They had been greatly reliant on the peer-review process for making presidential nominations. Though this process does have some antidemocratic aspects, no one knows the capability, personality, and ideology of a presidential hopeful better than his or her peer politicians. The screening process allowed effective sidelining of politicians, inexperienced demagogues and extremists who are likely to subvert democracy. For example, the reason why Henry Ford, the founder of the Ford Motor Company and a Hitler support, failed in his run for presidential candidacy despite the great popular support he enjoyed was because of the gatekeeping function that political parties performed.

The recent expansion of presidential primaries for the cause of a more democratic system resulted in presidential nominations placed increasingly in the hands of voters and not in those of the party establishment, weakening the peer-review system for vetting candidates. When gatekeeping institutions fail, mainstream politicians should, by every mean possible, keep dangerous figures away from the centers of power. Failing to do so may give rise to an irreversible, disastrous outcome. More specifically, political parties in Germany, Italy, Peru, and Venezuela allowed such extreme populists as Hitler, Mussolini, Fujimori, and Chávez to turn into elected dictators, thus contributing to the democratic breakdown in their country.

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Parties must have a good understanding of the key behavioral signs that characterize those with a penchant for extreme populism or authoritarianism in order to screen them out. The first sign is appointment of loyalists to key positions to interfere with the fair exercise of public power. Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán filled the Prosecution, the Board of Audit and Inspection, and the Constitutional Court with pro-government personnel. The second is the crackdown on critics and rivals. Ecuadorian ex-President Rafael Correa won a $40 million libel lawsuit against a media company for referring to him as a dictator. The third is changing the rules of the game. A good example is gerrymandering, which is manipulation of district boundaries for political advantage.

When such behavioral signs are identified, political parties must understand that the emergence of an extreme populist is imminent and ensure that they can properly assume their role as gatekeepers of democracy.

That said, I look forward to a greater role of the ICAPP as a platform for nations to share their experiences, draw from each other˅s wisdom, and strengthen the collective will, so that disastrous outcomes can be prevented through the efforts of political parties.

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Hon. Yasuo Ogata, Vice Chairperson, Executive Committee Chairperson, International Commission Japanese Communist Party, Former House of Councilors Member, Japan

Honorable Chairpersons, Dear friends,

I welcome the fact that the 10th General Assembly of the International Conference of Asian Political Parties (ICAPP) is being held in Moscow under the theme of meeting the needs of the times, and express my gratitude to the organizers – United Russia and the Secretariat of the ICAPP.

How to build peace and cooperation in Asia is a major challenge that the ICAPP has consistently addressed since its founding. First of all, I welcome the recent dramatic and powerful change for peace that is taking place in Northeast Asia.

Until last year, the Korean Peninsula experienced extremely high tensions and it was feared that an accidental clash might trigger a war or even a nuclear war. But this year, the leaders of the two Koreas held summit meetings three times, and the heads of North Korea and the United States also held a summit for the first time ever. In those meetings, they agreed to promote the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula and the building of a peace structure, and the situation has dramatically changed from hostility to working for a resolution of issues through dialogue. As a political party persistently calling for a peaceful and diplomatic resolution of the dispute, the Japanese Communist Party heartily welcomes and strongly supports this new move to establish a lasting peace.

In April this year, the JCP made a request to the countries concerned regarding the following two points: along with efforts to denuclearize the Korean Peninsula, it is essential to build a structure promoting peace in an integrated and comprehensive manner in order to ease tensions and improve relations between the two Koreas and between North Korea and the United States; and to negotiate measures to overcome deep distrust and to build trust between the US and North Korea, and implement them step by step. As of now, Pyongyang has presented some concrete measures for denuclearization, and Washington has also shown its intent to take corresponding measures. We believe it is important to promote this process based on the spirit of “quid pro quo”.

This move toward peace has been supported not only by the relevant countries but also by strong international opinion and global public campaigns opposing war. In order to achieve this road map to bring peace to the Korean Peninsula, it is necessary for political parties as well as national governments to actively campaign to reach this goal.

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The normalization of diplomatic ties between Japan and North Korea is another essential element in establishing peace on the Korean Peninsula. The foundation for normalization is the Japan-North Korea Pyongyang Declaration signed in 2002. It is particularly vital for Japan to express deep remorse for its past colonization of the Peninsula, as a first step toward normalization.

In addition, the JCP calls for creating a multilateral framework for peace and stability in Northeast Asia. At the JCP Congress five years ago, we proposed the Initiative for Peace and Cooperation in Northeast Asia. This initiative calls for concluding a Northeast-Asian version of the Treaty of Amity and Cooperation in Southeast Asia (TAC) and requiring signatories to resolve any dispute through dialogue. We are also certain that the Six-Party Talks on the North Korea issue, as represented by its joint statement in 2005, can be used to create the framework for peace and stability in Northeast Asia.

The current moves working to establish peace in Northeast Asia will lead to establishing a lasting peace throughout East Asia. The provisions of the TAC correspond to the principles of the Bali Declaration which was adopted in 2011 at the East Asia Summit attended by 18 nations, including 10 ASEAN members along with China, India, Russia, and the US. It is feasible to upgrade the declaration to a treaty. Let’s work together to bring success to the peace process on the Korean Peninsula and achieve peace in Northeast Asia, with a vision for establishing a lasting peace throughout East Asia, South Asia, and Southeast Asia.

Another topic I want to discuss is the move to abolish nuclear weapons, which has been at the core of the North Korea crisis. In 2016, the UN General Assembly confirmed the necessity to build a legal framework to ban nuclear weapons, the most inhumane weapons of mass destruction, following the Biological Weapons Convention (BWC) and the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC). In July 2017, the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons was approved by a vote of 122 UN member states in favor. So far, 69 nations have signed the treaty and 19 have ratified it.

This historic treaty states as follows: “Deeply concerned about the catastrophic humanitarian consequences that would result from any use of nuclear weapons, and recognizing the consequent need to completely eliminate such weapons, which remains the only way to guarantee that nuclear weapons are never used again under any circumstances”. Far from being incompatible with the 191-member NPT, this treaty complements the NPT and generates a hard-to-stop momentum for peace.

Nuclear-weapons-free-zone treaties have been concluded in various parts of the world, and currently cover 114 countries. Among them are ASEAN nations, Mongolia, and countries in Central Asia and the South Pacific. This fact is also reflected in the adoption of the nuclear weapons ban treaty.

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The nuclear weapons ban treaty specifies the important role of parliamentarians as well. The ICAPP has repeatedly called for realizing a world free of nuclear weapons. Its Phnom Penh Declaration adopted in 2010 expressed support for “negotiations on a nuclear weapons convention”, and the Colombo Declaration in 2014 called on the international community to promptly launch such talks. The treaty will take effect if 50 countries ratify it. As a political party of the only atomic-bombed nation in the world, the JCP calls on all the participants and friends to work together to have the convention come into force as early as possible.

Lastly, I would like to note that it is important for us to cooperate on common issues of promoting peace and social progress by going beyond differences in thought and beliefs, and work on our national governments together. A platform to achieve this is the ICAPP – a unique organization where political parties from all over the world have the opportunity to meet in order to discuss issues together. I would like to conclude my speech by calling for further joint efforts to enhance the role of the ICAPP. Thank you for your kind attention.

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Hon. Fadi Fawaz, Member of the ICAPP Standing Committee, Advisor to the Prime Minister Saad Hariri for Development Affairs and the Chairman of Future Movement Party of Lebanon

Excellencies, Founding Chairman, and Co-Chairman. Ladies and Gentlemen,

International inter-parties relations are crucially important in modern diplomacy and international relations. Indeed, they act as safety valves in case of any emerging international crisis, and can create solid common ground to solve any old lingering issues between countries.

In addition, if these parties focus on building concrete developmental ties and projects, this will significantly contribute to lowering international tensions, as people everywhere, regardless of race, religion, ethnicity, or ideology care primarily about their immediate economic interests and livelihoods. Thus, when parties help link different societies together using shared interests and developmental projects, the positive effects on stability, prosperity, and international peace are immediate, significant, and long lasting.

On a First Level, creating strong relationships between political parties from different countries, through mutual visits, organizing conferences and introductory seminars, and personal networking on all levels, will strengthen the diplomatic relations between these countries and allow the political parties to play a backdoor or track two diplomatic roles to solve any emerging crisis. These personal relations and connections can rapidly clear up any misunderstanding and offer feasible compromises to avert any escalations.

Historically, during the cold war, the US president and the USSR General Secretary had a special Red Telephone to use in case of a crisis, to avert a nuclear holocaust, by just talking to each other. Imagine what a hundred cell phones, WhatsApp groups, and telegram channels can help solve today!

On another level, if these parties start cooperating and helping their mutual countries build strong common developmental projects, the relationship between the two countries will be further solidified. Officials will think twice about international confrontation and increasing tensions, when such actions could jeopardize mutli-billion dollars projects and thousands of jobs!

It is worthy to note in this context, that the European Union was built on a joint Franco- German European Coal and Steel Community for development. Out of that community, a union encompassing most of Europe, and more than 300 million souls was created, enshrining peace and prosperity in a continent that was destroyed by horrible wars, and shattered by deep

101 Speeches by the Participants of the 10th GA lingering national divisions, during the first half of the 20th century. This unified developmental policy launched the EU and strengthened the bonds among its members.

Now imagine if we apply this example to our part of the world. Imagine the endless possibilities of an inter-Asian Developmental Policy, focusing on different common projects that grow into joint policies…….and who knows, we might be able to build another union that will benefit us all !!!

Indeed, nothing cements countries together, and helps lower international tension, and increases stability, peace, and prosperity, like joint developmental projects, especially when they are coupled with strong inter-parties relations on all levels.

Finally, let me conclude by saying that we, in Future Movement, were able to build a number of Success Stories for Lebanon, through great inter-party cooperation and development relations that we enjoy with a number of Political Parties in Asian Countries, especially in Russia & China. These relations are built upon years of mutual visits, seminars, and conferences that led to several high-level visits. These relations culminated in large common developmental projects, and special economic and political relations between Lebanon and the countries of our subject Asian Counterparts.

Thank you.

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Hon. Meng Seng Goh, Secretary General of the People’s Power Party of Singapore

Greetings to my Honorable Politicians from All countries in Asia and my blessings to His Excellency Jose.

First of all, let me thank our wonderful host, the United Russia Party for bringing us to this great city of Russia, Moscow.

1. This morning all of us Visited the Victory Park where the World War II Memorial stands. It is the greatest memorial display on World War II that I have visited so far, which demonstrated the pain and sorrow as well as the painful victory humanity had gained in the war.

2. 26 million Russians sacrificed with many more around the war. Will the world suffer another Devastating World War again, which could potentially wipe off all our civilizations?

3. While we pray that the next World War will never come, but the truth is, our planet has continued to suffer from wars after wars, big and small, in different continents.

4. Among the reflections I had this morning, one critical point come into mind it was and still is, the ambitions, greed and horrifying desires of power of politicians that cause the World Wars as well as the numerous wars we had in last and present centuries.

5. We have to remind ourselves, we the politicians can choose to be responsible for war, conflicts, destruction and massive suffering, but we could also choose to be responsible for the prosperity, survival of humanity and existence of our great human civilization beyond our time.

6. We can choose to share the common destiny of self destruction or we could share the destiny of prosperity for all countries and humanity.

7. As a politician in this modern era, whether we are in the ruling party or opposition party in our own respective countries, we have a critical role and responsibility to ensure not only our own countries prosper but also to make sure humanity survive amidst various threats like climate change, nuclear threats and shortage of crucial resources.

8. With the internet social media, each and everyone of us is empowered to be an social influencer in our country and the world. We have the potential to influence how our countries and world develop by voicing our concerns responsibly to enhance peace and prosperity for humanity.

9. In my opinion, ICAAP has been doing a great job in bringing peace to conflicting countries and communications and opportunity of pushing for dialogues instead of war, is the major key.

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10. I would like make my humble suggestion to ICAAP and His Excellency Mr Jose, that ICAAP should consider to build a digital internet platform as a closed forum or members to share their views, discussions or even debates so to facilitate more communication and understanding between countries to resolve conflicts before they blow out of proportion.

11. Ladies and gentlemen, we have only ONE EARTH, we share this earth as species of human beings. We have to spread the message of shared common destiny of survival and prosperity, instead of war.

12. And I believe, ICAAP will have a growing role and responsibility to maintain the survival of all our civilizations. Thank you

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Hon. Prakob Chirakiti, Former Director of the Democratic Party, Democratic Party of Thailand

Hon. Chairperson, Distinguished delegates, Ladies and Gentlemen,

It is an honor for me to be here delivering the speech on “the Role of Political Parties in reducing International Tensions and Combating Extremism” at the 10th ICAPP General Assembly here in Moscow.

First of all, on behalf of the Democrat Party, I’d like to thank our host, the United Russia Party, for their kind hospitality and their effort in hosting this marvelous meeting.

Today with all the modern communication technology, the world seems borderless. We can know what is happening around the world in a second. As peoples in different parts of the world become closer, their relationship become more strengthened, complex and interdependent.

Once upon a time, there was a phrase that “our loss is your gain or one man’s loss is another man’s gain”. However, accounting to the world setting nowadays, our beloved King, the Late King Bhumibhol Adulyadej or King Rama IX of Thailand, thought that instead of the phrase I mentioned, we can think of it as “our loss is our gain”.

May I elaborate why our loss can be our gain. If you think about this carefully, you’ll see that our loss can be our gain like His Majesty had said. For example, in business if you sell your product to consumer at a bit less your profit will then be less than if you sell at a higher price but in return the consumer will be happier with your product and keep continuing buying your product, likewise if the consumer pays a little bit more you are supporting the seller to continue what they are doing and you will have the product that you like. We have heard the story about people in the village or in the town support the local cooperative by buying the produce even though it costs a bit more than the big chain store, this is the similar concept, they are doing that in order to support the local farmer or producer so that they can continue their living. Ladies and gentlemen,

I would like to point out that the idea of an extremist is “winner takes all”, which is similar to idea of “our loss is your gain”, and to highlight here is that to reduce the international tension stimulated by extremism is to promote the idea of the interdependent world. Ones should concern beyond boundaries and think of the shadow of the future in all aspects including politics, securities, social development, education, healthcare to name a few in a reciprocal manner for mutual benefit.

In this connection, we, political parties, may take an important role as a change agent to promote the idea of our loss is our gain among the peoples of different thoughts and values. In this sense, the priority of the development should be to empower the powerless through

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Ladies and Gentlemen;

I believed that together, we can help reducing International Tensions and Combating Extremism as we all hope for.

Thank you for your kind attention.

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Hon. Hermine Naghdalyan, Member of the Executive board of the Republican Party of Armenia (RPA), Chairperson of the Women’s council of RPA and Head of the Armenian delegation to the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly, Armenia

Dear colleagues, ladies and gentlemen,

First of all, on behalf of the Republican party of Armenia, I want to congratulate the ICAPP for organizing this extremely important conference. We appreciate the great contributions of ICAPP, as a prestigious and one of the leading international organizations in the political sphere, and its dedicated leaders - as it was rightly said here the politiclgury of Asia - Founding Chairman and president Jose de VENECIA - and members, in promoting friendship, dialog we all need and understanding among political parties in Asia. I am very grateful to you for giving us the opportunity to talk about such an important topic.

Also, I would like to thank the authorities of Russian Federation, and, especially, the UNITED Russia party – the most influential party in Russia and her leadership for such a warm welcome and for the excellent organization of this interesting event.

I am second time here. And I also want to express my thanks to Prof. Hassan Ghafoory Fard and Islamic Motalefeh party of Iran for their hospitality in Tehran, where are previous meeting was.

Respectable leaders and members of different political parties it is truly a pleasure to be able to meet you and hear your informative insights on the very important topic – The Role of Political Parties in Combating Extremism.

No country and, surely, no political party with a high civic position can avoid the complex and contradictory challenges and threats of our time. Touching upon, threats and challenges of the modern times, we highlighted the terrorism with its newest manifestations as the most dangerous threat. Today, that disaster does not recognize borders, economically rich and poor countries and not small or big states. We deal with evil, against which we should fight with united efforts, if we want to succeed.

Steps like withdrawing from the intermediate range nuclear forces treaty are also a danger for the whole humanity. From the high tribune of this conference I want to emphasize that the all this against peaceful life and human rights.

I was not going to talk about it, but I have to say and remind my colleagues about the large- scale military aggression initiated by our neighbors Azerbaijani republic in April 2016 along

107 Speeches by the Participants of the 10th GA the entire border line of Artsakh- Nagorno-Karabachrepublick. The trilateral agreement on ceasefire signed in 1994 was violated. Atrocities and crimes were committed in the style of the terrorist groupings of the Islamic State functioning in Syria and Iraq against mankind and humanity, that should be voiced and condemned from all tribunes that recognize human rights and are committed to the protection of democratic values.

In this context I want to underline the importance of the nations’ right of self-determination. Protecting the human rights, we become committed to the protection of the nations’ rights of self-determination, the right of independently defining their destiny and the right to defend their rights. In the modern global world the territorial integrity should not be opposed to the right of nations to self-determination, and should not restrict the right of self-determination of the people living in that territory. Such is the logic of the UN Charter.

Here I want to talk about another challenge of our time which is double standards, and which do not have any accusation and should not be applied in any place. In the world created by God all people have equal rights, as people of Crimea, so the people of the Republic of Artsakh, who declared their independence through referendum, a referendum which was held for the entire international community in accordance with the acceptable international laws. This is also a challenge and a threat for the modern world, because people struggle for their rights, and there is no explanation to the fact that one’s right ends with the other’s injustice. I attach particular importance to the great mission of Russia in Syria, which, together with the Syrian army, has returned to the World the thousand-year-old Palmyra and peace to the Syrian people.

Another threat of our time the refugees’ problem, depriving the people of their houses, properties and the possibilities of normal life. In that respect, I consider symbolic the fact that Armenia became the third country hosting a big number of refugees in Europe, noting that they are not refugees for us, Armenians, but they are our compatriots, who were obliged again to emigrate after the 1915 Armenian Genocide in Ottoman Turkey.

And therefore: I want to remind to all politicians that Genocide and crimes against peace and humanity will be repeated until it gets its worthy assessment. And finally: we-the representatives of the leading political parties and influential international organizations should consider: are we ready for those geopolitical changes, which will result in instability, shocks and losses. I think – not. Shall we try to learn appropriate lessons, in building and developing modern political processes?

I think unequivocally, Yes.

And in light of this, once again I want to welcome our organization, conference and wish success to our initiatives.

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Hon. Heyam matar Haddad, General Director of Fatah International Relations Commission, Palestine National Authority

Dear brothers, sisters, Ladies and Gentlemen, Greetings,

First of all, I would like to thank you all for the great opportunity you offered Fateh Party to be among you here at the 10th General Assembly of the International Conference of the Asian Political Parties. I would also like to grasp the chance to convey to you the warm greetings of our Palestinian people and our leadership, represented by Mr. President Mahmoud Abbas, President of the State of Palestine, and also the greetings and sincere wishes of Mr. Rawhi Fattouh, member of the Fatah Central Committee and Commissioner of its International Relations.

This will provide us a great opportunity to explain and update in more details about all the latest events happening in Palestine in addition to contribute to the conference’s important theme under the title: “The role of the political parties in reducing international tensions and combating extremism”. Last but not least, I would like to thank the United Russian Party for hosting the 10th GA assembly here in Moscow.

The State of Palestine remains under the full occupation of Israel despite the peace process that was signed in 1993 and should have ended that occupation by 1999. During these 25 years of this “Pease process” Israel stole our land, creating colonial settlements that control to day 62% of the Palestinian West Bank and exploits 92% of our water.

Ladies and Gentlemen,

Combating extremism and aligning for reducing the international tension is a duty that all political parties shall commit to. In Palestine, Palestinians who live in the West bank and in Gaza Strip face every form of abuse and terrorism. No matter where they live, what are they doing. Earlier this month a Palestinian Woman (Aisha Rabi) 48 years old and a mother of 8 children was murdered by a group of Israeli settlers who attacked her husband’s car and threw stones at her until she was dead. Aisha was killed near the Za’tara check-point, South of Nablus in the Occupied West Bank. She was preparing for her daughter’s wedding next week. Her husband sustained moderate injuries, and her daughter who is 9 years’ old who was in the same car, suffered a post- traumatic stress disorder.

On the other hand, The recent period has also seen measures aimed at the forcible transfer of Palestinian Bedouin communities, from in and around Occupied East Jerusalem, including the sensitive E-1 area, such as the community in Khan al-Ahmar, along with ongoing threats to

109 Speeches by the Participants of the 10th GA demolish Palestinian homes, school and other civilian structures to forcibly displace the population.

These are just a few examples from a year witnessing exceptional number of demolitions of Palestinian homes, non-stop confiscation of Palestinian land, expansion of Israeli settlements, threats by Israeli officials to annex our land, and constant settler violence and terror, all committed with impunity. At the same time, we witness ongoing provocations and extremist incitement against holy sites in Occupied East Jerusalem and Al-Khalil, especially at Al- Haram Al-Sharif; and onset of the 10th year of Israel’s blockade of the Gaza Strip, where 2 million Palestinians are being collectively punished and besieged, threatened repeatedly by Israel’s Defense Minister leading to extreme deprivation and isolation that has imposed a dire humanitarian crisis and socio-economic conditions at their lowest point since 1967.

Ladies and Gentlemen

I am standing in front of you today to send a call for a protection for the Palestinian People from the terror of the settlers. It is a message for peace, a call for the protection of civilians and an invitation to take actions. We hope this global call for cessation of Israeli settlement activities and violations will serve to compel compliance with the law, de-escalate tensions, bring an end to the violence, including all acts of terror, provocations and incitement, this is vital for securing the prospects for peace in order to reduce the long-standing tension in the region.

Last but not least, thank you for the time you gave me to advocate human issues here at the GA, I hope to see you again soon in free and independent Palestine with East Jerusalem as its Capital.

Asalam alaikom wa rahmat Allah wabarakateh,,,,,

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Hon. Abdul Rasheed Mahaboob Batcha, Central Executive Committee Member of the Reform Party of Singapore

In Animal kingdom, animals prefer their own tribe. Thus, we can see animal in their own eco system prefer their own species. They would kill if different species enter into their eco system. Correctly to say they are not welcome. We humans behave the same as in animal kingdom; we prefer to live with our own types.

Organizations like political parties took advantage of this behavioural system for their own advantage. Which bring about disastrous results but proof effective.

Sad to say even to this present day, this barbaric type of inflaming extremism still practices by political parties result in instabilities and to the extreme even war with its neighbors. Good example was the world war 2. The Nazi party in order to win the elections, using the race and religious cards. The Jew became the scapegoat. 5.6 million being exterminated. Using fear tactics of Jew being a communist sympathizer. The Germans invade their neighbors.

Parties using race and religious cards will in stabilize a country. Look at Myanmar. Religious and Race cards being played during the 2015 elections. The country attracted few investors as no companies want to invest in a place full of violence’s where millions of their investment at stake. Thus, countries playing religious and Racial cards will never prosper only lead to poverty. During The 2015 elections in Myanmar, parties inflamed their ethnicities to win elections. Religious card also being played where thousands of Muslims being killed. Previous elections saw many Muslims candidates but during the 2015 elections only saw one Muslim candidate.

How to combat these extremists which only lead to chaos? In Singapore which I came from, we are a small nation only its people as its resources. Stability is number one important. Singapore had a fair share of its experiences on extremist taking advantage of this situation. We had religious and racial riots of the 60s. People get killed. Streets were not safe. What Singapore government did was to arrest and detained those organizations that played religious and racial cards. So far, we are successful by using this system. The country is stable and prosperous. Every know them our leaders reminded and educated its citizens what would happen if we were to obey entities that inflame religious and racial issues. These how our country combat extremism which only lead to chaos and impoverished a nation.

In Myanmar it is quite a dangerous situation if it does not contain. It might inflame neighbouring Muslim countries which might result only neighbouring wars. So far, we have

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Asian but prove to be ineffective to contain the situations. We don’t want foreign superpowers to interfere it might only complicate situation further. But sadly, USA, a world superpower taking action against the Myanmar. Thus, we can see parties playing extremist are not helping the country, but it would only make the country more in a dire state.

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Hon. Binoy Viswam, Member of Parliament, Communist Party of India

Esteemed delegates and observers,

With all earnestness, I bring to you greetings from the Communist Party of India. While underlining the basic goals of the 10th General Assembly of ICAPP, my thoughts fly to the lines written by the great Indian poet Rabindra Nath Tagore, who was the first non European Nobel laurate. His vision was of a world...... ,

"Where the mind is without fear And the head is held high Where knowledge is free Where the world has not been broken up into fragments- By narrow domestic walls.... Thus it goes...

Poets are often dubbed as dreamers and romantics. But no senses allow us to ignore them as irrelevant. It is such a dream of a new world that beckoned us all to come together, searching ways and means for a peaceful world. All right thinking women and men in the world would join us in sharing the desire for lasting peace.

The two themes around which this Assembly is asked to ponder over are essentially interconnected. Reducing international tension, combating extremism, development of Socio- Economic and Political ties and international inter party co-operation are all preconditions for a new world order. These are the fundamental principles. It is quite easy to talk about them. But how to translate these principles into practice is the cardinal question to be addressed by all responsible political parties, the world over.

The Sustainable Development Goal proclaimed by the UN is in front of us.2030 is the year to accomplish this goal. We have only 12 years to reach the goal post. But the fact of life is staring at all of us. For the poor and unprivileged a decent life still remains as a distant goal. The global Hunger index and studies on human happiness tell us about the plight of millions of people who are forced to survive on the margins of market driven world. Even though figures of GDP speak us about the brighter side of economic development, in almost all economies the divide between the rich and the poor are ever on the increase. This situation affects the stability of the very concept of sustainable development. Not only many political parties across the spectrum, but also great thinkers like Pope Francis have expressed their anguishes over the mode of growth, in which wealth is accumulated in the hands of few and majority are denied even food, shelter and education.

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While we talk about a world without threat of extremism, above said socio-economic conditions need to be taken into account. Because extremism of all sorts have used these kind of inequalities for their purposes.

In the present day world of ours, No Political party, whether in power or in opposition could close their eyes on threats from climate change. Danger of global warming is looming over human destiny as the sword of Democlese. The commitment made by Paris agreement was not between countries only. It was to the future generations, that the level of global warming would never be allowed to cross the limit of 2°celtius. The world took it as a promise of parties to the UN Framework Convention on climate change-UNFCCC. That promise at any cost need to be honoured, as it was our word, even to the still born generations that we shall preserve the earth as a safer place for them to live.

But when we assemble here today, matters are not so promising due to various reasons. The US which is undoubtedly a major force in determining the geo-politics of our times, have withdrawn from the Paris agreement. They have also decided to keep away from the UN Human Rights Commission. Recently, their announcement regarding the unilateral decision on nuclear treaty also brings alarm to the world. These developments may lead to furthering of international tension and spending resources on war and confrontation. Political Parties everywhere are bound to take up these issues seriously. If we allow the forces of arms race and profit mongering to proceed as they like, all our hopes for a meaningful life in a peaceful world would break into pieces. Our primary concern should be the wellbeing of the people, majority of whom are deprived of their basic rights. Without this perspective politics will have no future; Democracy will have no meaning.

Thank you all.

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Hon. Somphone Sichaleune, Vice-Chairman (Vice Minister) of Committee for External Relations of the Central Committee of the Lao People’s Revolutionary Party, Lao PDR

Esteemed Presidium, Distinguished delegates, Ladies and Gentlemen,

At the outset, it is a pleasure and honor for me to lead the delegation of the Lao PRP to attend the 10th General Assembly of the International Conference of the Asian Political Parties (ICAPP), which is held in this beautiful city of Moscow. I would like to express my sincere thanks and deep gratitude to the United Russia Party for the warmest welcome and generous hospitality extended to our delegation. I also appreciate it for the excellent arrangements made for this meeting happened.

This conference takes place amidst the times when the world’s situation continues to undergo rapid and complex changes, and remain tense. Terrorism, extremism, violence and conflicts in different parts of the world continue to pose major threats to peace and stability in many regions and the world. People’s poverty has yet to be resolved, and natural disasters including climate change phenomenon are of frequent occurrence, thus causing huge damage to the development of humanity globally. In this connection, our meeting’s theme: “The role of political parties in reducing international tensions and combating extremism” is a very important topic, which underlines the pressing issues and political tasks of all political forces in each society.

Over the past, many countries and political parties in the world have expressed their political will and exerted joint efforts to respond to and overcome these challenges through consultations and exchange of ideas in order to explore solutions at both bilateral and multilateral channels. The ICAPP conference therefore is an important forum for discussions among political parties, aiming at achieving those objectives. I am convinced that the 10th General Assembly of the ICAPP will be crowned with brilliant success. Distinguished Delegates,

Despites the complex changes of the global landscape, peace and cooperation for development continue to be an epochal trend. It is of our view that political parties have to translate their political will and commitments into concrete actions, enhance mutual trust, cooperation, assistance and support aiming at dealing with existing and emerging challenges. Political parties must hold high the banner of peace and prevent confrontations as well as strengthen cooperation for development of countries across the world as all this are the common aspiration of humankind.

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The Lao People’s Revolutionary Party (Lao PRP) reaffirms its willingness to further cooperation with political parties in the world for the common cause of peace, stability and cooperation for development as well as prosperity in the regions and the world as well. The Lao PRP consistently embraces a foreign policy of peace, independence, friendship and cooperation. It promotes multi-directional, multilateral and multi-level relations based on the five principles of peaceful co-existence.

The Lao People’s Revolutionary Party attaches the importance on enhancing relations with political parties of fraternal countries, neighboring countries and all friendly countries in the world. The emphasis is put on promoting political and security cooperation so as to create an environment conducive to economic and socio-cultural development, and to build mutual trust and understanding, thus contributing to the national safeguarding and construction of our country as well as promoting peace, stability and cooperation for development in the regions and the world as a whole. To date, the Lao People’s Democratic Republic (Lao PDR) has established diplomatic relations with 140 countries and had relations with 136 political parties worldwide.

The Lao PRP and the Government of the Lao PDR pay attention to regional and international integration and connectivity, and enhance the country’s role as a partner with friendly countries to address the regional and international challenges, including terrorism and extremism, trans-national crimes, climate change as well as tensions in various parts of the world. In addition, the Government of the Lao PDR actively undertakes activities in the framework of the United Nations, the Association of the Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and other important international organizations.

Based on the implementation of the correct foreign policy of the Party in each period, the Lao PDR has been able to firmly protect the independence, sovereingty and territorial integrity of the country, as well as to maintain the country’s political stability and social order. The economy has recorded constant growth with an average GDP of 6,9% for the period 2016-2017 and the income per capita of US$ 2609. People’s poverty has been gradually reduced and the living standard of the Lao people been improved. Moreover, we have achieved satisfactory results in the implementation of the Mellenium Development Goals (MDGs). Currently utmost efforts are made to carry out the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and to further the implementation of the Renovation Policy based on the Party’s principles so as to laying out solid foundation for national development for the prosperity and wellbeing of the Lao people. We profoundly acknowledge that the achievements gained thus far by the Lao PDR will not be made possible without the valuable support and assistance provided by our fraternal Parties and friends from many countries. We would like to take this opportunity to express our sicere thanks and deep gratitude to all of them.

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Finally, I would like to wish the Presidium, participants and the organizing committee of the 10th General Assembly of the ICAPP a good health, happiness and every success in your noble tasks.

Thank you very much!

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Hon. Cheryl P. Deloso-Montalla, House of Representative of the Liberal Party of the Philippines

Honourable Jose De Venecia, Honorable Meryem Goka, Hon. Konstantin Kosachev, Secretary General Park Ro-Byug, members of the Standing Committee, distinguished colleagues, ladies and gentlemen: Good morning

It is our nature to search for the truth. Our experience, resources and aspirations should therefore encourage us to look no further – and find the answers in each other, and with each other’s help.

The International Conference of Asian Political Parties has convincingly shown the way forward when it continues to advocate for interfaith dialogue to settle politico-religious conflicts and to rally multi-sectoral support for climate change mitigation programs. There is no reason to think, therefore, that there cannot be made any headway in brokering peace to enable us to draw solutions to the phenomenon of forced migration, or to provide a coordinated response to drug trafficking, or to develop solutions to rising hunger.

Because of the challenges we all face, we should elevate the level of exchanges between our governments and people, we have to invest even more, in both the public and private sectors, to learn from each other especially in areas such as technology-based agricultural development, tourism and human resources development. To address climate change, political parties must hasten efforts to achieve village-level efficiency in disaster risk mitigation thru states exchange technologies and strategies.

To address hunger, political parties must promote the exchange of scientific knowledge and practices, and use science to secure the next generations’ food requirements, not only the needs of the Asian continent but the rest of the world.

The ICAPP can help spur investments in scientific research, exchanges, and political party discussions so the Asian continent can harness its knowledge resources to benefit us and the rest of the global economy.

We need to shine the light on the tenuous situation world is in with the scarce resources, continuing population growth and the debilitating effects of climate change. Freedom and democracy can never be optimized while hunger continues to plague our nations, and while there is hunger, peace will remain nebulous-like a distant dream. We, in Asia can lead in demolishing hunger and thus be the fulcrum for political stability and progress.

All these and many more strategies which we need to identify and commit to sponsor can help bring forth the oft-aspired Asian renaissance. A coming true of the much-vaunted pivot to Asia, a time when the world will look itself through the eyes of Asia where culture, technology and human resources are bonded together to usher in a more sensitive and more inclusive kind of growth. In order for civilization to endure and prosper, we need to overcome today’s challenges and find meaning in the powerful vocation of political representation. Our

118 Speeches by the Participants of the 10th GA shared humanity must move us to cooperate and depend on each other. We need to lead and take responsibility.

The Philippine House of Representatives led by Speaker Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo expresses its wholehearted support for this distinguished body and remains ready as a partner and enabler for peace and stability in Asia.

At this end juncture, we the Philippine delegation wishes to extend our thanks to United Russia Party for the warm hospitality. The words of man don’t have the power to thank you for your generous and friendly reception. We will definitely return home with the invaluable experience we gathered from this conference and with a heart full of gratitude.

Thank you, Good morning.

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Hon. Wunna Maung Lwin, Member of the ICAPP Standing Committee and Member of Central Executive Committee of the Union Solidarity and Development Party, Myanmar

Chairman of the 10th General Assembly of the ICAPP, Distinguished Guests, representatives of the Asian Political Parties, Ladies and Gentlemen,

It is a great honor for me to have the opportunity to attend this auspicious 10th General Assembly of the ICAPP, held in this beautiful city of Moscow. First of all I would like to express my appreciation to the Government of the Russian Federation, the United Russia Party and the ICAPP for the excellent hospitality and arrangements rendered to us since our arrival to Russia.

Excellences, The political parties can play an important and essential role in reducing International Tensions and Combating Extremism. As the ICAPP has become a major and unique political force open to all political parties across the political spectrum to bring about the best of Asia’s unity in diversity by building a bridge of peace, friendship and cooperation among initiating the idea of political parties contributing to reduce the International Tensions and Combating Extremism and bring about peace, prosperity and harmony to be prevailed around the world.

In today’s world we are witnessing the growing disputes and tensions among countries or group of countries which could flare up into armed confrontations and conflicts in various parts of the world if it is not handled properly or if it is not settled properly by peaceful means. The armed conflicts are affecting not only to the groups concerned but also to the surrounding neighbors, and so many innocent people have lost their lives and livelihoods. Even though the responsibility lies in the hands of respective governments and the ruling political parties to settle the issues or problems other political parties should also be given the role to play in matters of national interests to find a suitable mean for the peaceful solution. Indeed, political parties can contribute in facilitating, moderating and mediating an end to those conflicts, and also steering the political settlement for peace process and then shaping the interests of citizens during both peace negotiations and transition processes, post-conflict and state building.

Crisis and tensions between countries must be settled in a peaceful way with mutual respect, respect for sovereignty and territorial integrity, equality and non-interference in each other’s internal affairs. At the present time there are crises and tensions that could lead to the international dimension if not settled properly. Political parties either the ruling party or in opposition are responsible to prevent those crisis and tensions from further escalation toward regional or international tensions and to ensure peace and stability. Political parties of

120 Speeches by the Participants of the 10th GA countries in dispute or in crisis can set up a link and communication among themselves to assist their respective governments in many ways.

Excellences, ladies and gentlemen, Another issue of global concern is the escalation of Extremism around the world. I am confident that Combating Extremism is a priority for all of us who are gathering around here today. Many of our countries have been threaten by extremism, terrorist attacks were common nowadays in every corner of the world. Growing fears of terrorism against innocent people throughout the world is clouding our region in the wake of successive assaults in many places. My country Myanmar is not an exception, Myanmar is also under the threat of extreme terrorist groups. In this context Myanmar strongly condemns on all forms of terrorism under any manifestation whenever and wherever it occurs. We endorsed the position of the ICAPP in prioritizing combating terrorism than other challenges. The political parties in the region should be united in the efforts to eliminate the scourge of terrorism, together with the governments and parliaments, to prevent terrorist activities, irrespective of their motives.

Excellences, ladies and gentlemen, Political parties should have a wider vision in analyzing the situation of a country, one political party has made a sweeping assertion with regard to the 2015 general elections of my country which totally is an internal affairs of Myanmar. And the honorable representative of Bangladesh also mentioned about the bilateral issue that the governments of both countries are working toward finding peaceful solution. In this regards I would like to remind the participants to abide by the Charter and the Understanding of the ICAPP Standing Committee Meetings, which I quote “all representatives of the political parties at the ICAPP Meetings should refrain from raising any issue directly related to bilateral conflicts or disputes among countries in the region”

Excellences, ladies and gentlemen, In conclusion, I would like to emphasize that, it is time for the ICAPP to lead, encourage and enhance the role of political parties in reducing International Tensions and Combating Extremism, not only among our regional political parties but also with other regional political organizations such as the CAPP, COPPPAL and other regional entities. It is also important for the ICAPP as a leading political platform to play a strategic role in making our region a better and safer place by safeguarding unity and cooperation among all political parties and linking up all the sub-regional cooperation efforts, into a larger pan-Asian architecture.

Thank you.

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Hon. Hosyar Siwaily, Head of KDP Foreign Relations Office of the Party, Iraq

Firstly, we would like to express our deepest appreciation to the organizers of the International Conference of Asian Political Parties (ICAPP) and we would like to thank the ruling party in the Russian Federation for its hospitality and warm reception. We extend our friendly greetings of the leadership and members of the Islamic Group (Komal) in Iraqi Kurdistan.

We would like to inform you that our party is actively involved in the political process of Iraq and we have a number of representatives in the Iraqi Parliament, the Kurdistan Parliament and the Provincial Councils of the Kurdistan Region.

We, as an Islamic Political Party in Kurdistan, has played and still playing an important role, in Iraq and the Kurdistan Region, in reducing and standing up against the wave of extremism and terrorist movements through our different channels , our publications and conveying the real message of Islam away from extremism. In addition, our party is playing a great role in establishing stability, accepting differences and fighting discrimination in Iraq. Furthermore, it is obvious that the Kurdish people especially Peshmerga forces have taken the leading role in fighting and defeating ISIS with the help of the Iraqi army and the International Collation.

We stress the importance of cooperation between the Asian Political Parties at all levels and ask everyone support a Constitutional Federal government of Iraq that guarantees the constitutional rights of the Kurdish people.

We believe that fighting corruption in Asian countries, ensuring social justice and allowing the political work of parties and organizations in general and of moderate Islamic parties in particular is a guarantee to stand up against and curb the emergence of extremist groups. Additionally, we ask all of you, according to your own responsibility, to stand up against what is being waged behind the scenes by international intelligence agencies. In other words, it is everyone's responsibility to fight against creating chaos, forming and supporting extremist groups bearing the name of Islam to reach a particular goal and defame Islam and Muslims.

In conclusion, we wish the conference success and joint action and coordination among the Asian political parties in order to achieve the objectives of the conference.

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Hon. Manuel Luis T. Lopez, Representative of the 1st District, City of Manila, Nationalist People's Coalition (NPC) of the Philippines

To Russian President, Vladimir Putin; Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev; Moscow Mayor, Sergey Sobyanin; Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov; ICAPP Chairmen, Jose de Venecia and Chung Eui-yong; ICAPP Secretary General Park Ro-byug; honorable ICAPP members and participants; colleagues in public service; distinguished guests, ladies and gentlemen, good afternoon.

According to a study conducted by the World bank in 2015, around 22 million Filipinos, were considered poor. This was confirmed in the study conducted by the Philippine Statistics Authority (“PSA”) in the same year wherein it reported that 21.9 million Filipinos cannot even afford to live on P1, 813 pesos or roughly $35USD per month. The PSA also reported that about 8.2 million Filipinos were considered “food poor.” This means that they could not afford to meet the basic food needs, which satisfies the nutritional requirements for economically necessary and socially desirable physical activities.

Coming from the poorest and most densely populated district in the Philippines, I was able to see all this firsthand when I assumed office in 2016. In the Philippines, EXTREMISM continues to thrive not only because of false political and religious ideologies, but also because of extreme poverty. This was evident during the “Marawi Siege” that broke out in the southern part of the Philippines in 2017. These extremists were able to recruit vulnerable children and adults, mostly those from the impoverished sector. Military intelligence also reported that some children from indigent families were sold to the terrorist groups to be used in the uprising. The minimum requirement for them was that they should be able to hold a gun.

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Marawi (“TFBM”), it said that “out of the original figure of 77,170 families (353,921 individuals) displaced by the Marawi crisis, 59,495 families remain displaced as of 06 March 2018. Out of this, 65,653 families are in home-based settings and 2,841 are in evacuation centers (“ECs”).” This is one of the reasons why we strive to make it our top priority to eradicate poverty by providing affordable healthcare, quality education and continuous social services to our citizenry.

I wish to stress that extremism, results in internal and international tension. Although we have numerous peace organizations and hold various conventions/ conferences around the world,

123 Speeches by the Participants of the 10th GA extremism continues to grow day-by-day. Why? It is because we as a global community continue to struggle against social inequality and ultimately poverty.

In the Philippines, in order to COMBAT EXTREMISM, we as a nation have to intensify our campaign against poverty. By addressing the root cause of the problem, POVERTY, we will be able to reduce internal conflict, tension, hostility and aggression. We have to be able to improve the standard of living of the people by providing them with opportunities wherein they can engage in gainful and dignified employment.

In line with this, the political parties in the Philippines have to continue to play their role in society and help address these problems. As political leaders, we cannot do it alone, we need our allies and foreign partners to guide us in being able to perform our mandate and to champion the fight against the eradication of poverty. Our political parties, in my case, the Nationalist People’s Coalition (“NPC”), help us make a stand on important issues, which are pro-people and inclusive growth. The NPC makes sure that we, as representatives of the people, continue to uphold the values of principled public service by making sure that only those policies and programs that promote and enhance the welfare of the people are carried out.

With this, I thank you for the opportunity to speak in front of you and deliver the most recent state of our Country. We hope that we strengthen our alliance with your Country as we both have the same goal of combating extremism by strengthening our political parties and eradicating poverty.

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Hon. Dr. Mohamed Yousife Abdalla, Assistant to the Secretary General of the Council of African Political Parties (CAPP), Sudan

Hon. Mr. President Distinguished delegates Ladies and gentlemen - I have the honor to express, in my name and on behalf of the Council of African Political Parties (CAPP), our thanks and gratitude to ICAPP for the kind invitation to participate in this important conference. Our thanks are also due to our host United Russian Party for the warm welcome and hospitality accorded to us. - The international community is facing huge challenges, not least the global warming and its devastating impact on human life, the organized crime, drug trafficking, inter and intra state tensions and violence of extremism. - It is very hard to cover all causes of tension and extremism because of the complexity of the phenomena, yet it may be worth mentioning that extremism is a byproduct of misperception regarding the religion, culture and values of the other. The extremists are always a tiny but noisy minority in each and every religion be it Islam, Christianity or Hinduism etc... - As we have indicated, tension and extremism are part of the challenges of today and that no Country is immune. It is counterproductive to wait for the events and only react to them. We need to be proactive. We believe in the proverb “prevention is better than cure”. Prevention begins by reading rationally warning signs and understanding the underlying causes. - The tendency to use military solution can make situation worse. The famous war on terror provoked more extremism. Policies that address the root causes of tension and extreme tendency are those which consolidate the social cohesion and find solutions to those who lack job opportunities, the young in particular. - The political parties are well placed to contribute to this early warning, they are supposed to be close to their bases and share with them their concerns and aspirations. Being close to the bases is not enough to get it right unless they are assisted by experts from within or from academic institutions, think tanks etc…..As for the extreme stands, it is imperative to identify the potential extremists and use preventive action by engaging with them .The exchange of views through dialogue may help moderate their positions and make them voice their spiritual, social or political grievances some of which can be considered. It is worth mentioning that without maintaining a minimum of confidence between the potential extremist and the interlocutors, the dialogue becomes a futile exercise and may make solutions harder to reach. Speeches by the Participants of the 10th GA

- Ruling parties in general and those participating in governments in particular have a huge responsibility in the formulation of policies that secure the safety of citizens in a troubled environment within their territory or beyond and elaborate practical solutions. - Parties need to conduct a transparent and constructive dialogue among themselves to come up with a common understanding of how to address this problem. - The Parties through their programs of youth and women empowerment, can find a way out and offer a decent life to them. Promotion of tolerance, social justice and good governance are part of any effort that can ease tension and open the door for dialogue which reduces the chance of using violent means to get through one’s agenda. - As legislators, political parties are to formulate legal frameworks that guarantee the smooth running of governments and the protection of the basic rights of their fellow citizens. The role of Parliaments is to encourage the executive to adhere to the relevant agreements, be it regional or international that address extremism. The bilateral and multilateral cooperation between parties is indispensable in combating the issue of global nature. Cooperation between groups of parties such as ICAPP, COPPPAL and CAPP is equally crucial. Entities such as CAPP, COPPPAL and ICAPP can achieve a lot through their trilateral cooperation, thanks to the large bases they enjoy and experience that can enrich their joint efforts. Each entity has its own partners at the regional and international level. If we take CAPP, it managed to establish working relations with regional organizations such as the African Union, Pan African Parliament and with international organizations such as UNESCO which promote culture of peace. - We have to hail the Chinese Belt and Road initiative which is an example of what a party can offer. It is a global partnership which provides jobs, development and interconnectivity between different peoples and different cultures. The interest which will be shared by millions of peoples create a solid ground for mutual understanding and mutual respect that will reduce tension and promote spirit of one community. - The information and communication technology ICT is providing social media which is used as an efficient means to get one’s message through. Unfortunately they are largely used and abused by those who fuel tension and determined to commit extremism acts.

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needs reform to cope with these challenges, new approaches and the strong political will among its members are crucial for the credibility and the ability of the UN to be relevant.

I thank you,

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Hon. Guo Yezhou, Vice Chairman of the ICAPP Standing Committee Vice Minister of the International Department of Central Committee of the Communist Party of China

Your Excellency Chairman Jose De Venecia, Distinguished delegates, Ladies and Gentlemen, Friends,

It gives me great pleasure to join you at the Tenth General Assembly of the International Conference of Asian Political Parties (ICAPP) as the representative of the Communist Party of China (CPC). As I recall some of the highlights yesterday, the impressive Opening Ceremony and the productive deliberations in Plenary Session One, I’d like to extend, on behalf of the CPC, our heartfelt congratulations to the organiser of this event, the United Russia Party, and colleagues from other ICAPP members for all your efforts to make this General Assembly possible.

The topic of today's Plenary Session is the importance of international inter-party cooperation, which provides all of us much food for thought on many issues. What kind of world we are living in? What are the choices we face? And how should political parties make positive contribution through collaboration? I wish to share with you here some of our views from the Chinese perspective.

As General Secretary Xi Jinping of the CPC Central Committee stated, our world today is undergoing profound changes unseen in the past 100 years. The trends of global multi- polarity, economic globalization, IT application and cultural diversity are surging forward. Changes in the global governance system and the international order are speeding up. We are faced with unprecedented opportunities as well as challenges.

In such a world of dramatic changes, the destinies of different peoples worldwide are closely connected as never before. Domestic and foreign policies of countries are interlocked with profound interactions with one other. Different forces and schools of thoughts are surging and competing. All of us here representing different political parties need to take a deeper thought about the following questions before we make our choices. When faced with different directions forward, should we forge ahead to build a community with a shared future for mankind where we sail through the rough times and the smooth together, guided by the principle of achieving shared growth through discussion and collaboration? Or should we choose sides and build alliances to confront each other under the pressure of big powers?

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When faced with imperfect globalization, should we continue to pursue and steer it for progress by safeguarding multilateralism? Or should we choose unilateralism and take unilateral actions? When faced with the international order and rules longing for changes, should we improve and reform it under the precondition of maintaining rules and orders? Or should we simply abandon it, retreat from it or continue to seek hegemony for the sole interest of one's own country? When faced with increasingly fierce competition, should we push forward reform, innovation and greater opening-up? Or should we resort to protectionism, isolation and seclusion?

History tells us that more often than not, we as human beings are liable to make totally different decisions in front of choices. To create a future with lasting peace and common prosperity for our country, our nation and generations to come, the CPC, together with many other political parties worldwide, are making unremitting efforts to fully appreciate the underlying trend of the times and that of world development so as to make the right choice. We should follow the trend towards peace and cooperation, which calls for all of us to work together to address challenges and safeguard peace through consultation and dialogue. We should follow the trend towards win-win cooperation, which calls for all of us to seek common ground while reserving differences and pursue common development so as to achieve prosperity for all. We should follow the trend towards reform and innovation, which calls for all of us to forge ahead with reform and innovation so as to keep a firm hold on the initiative in the changing world. We should follow the trend towards advancing world multi-polarity and democracy in international relations, which calls for all of us to build a multilateral governance system based on cooperation and consultation and ensure that international affairs are dealt with by all countries through consultation. We should follow the trend towards advancing opening-up and connectivity, which calls for all of us to be open-minded and inclusive so as to facilitate mutual learning among different civilizations.

Ladies and Gentlemen, Dear friends,

Great visions can be realized only through actions. The CPC needs not only to make correct choices but also take concrete actions. China has offered Chinese approach to addressing global issues. In 2013, General Secretary Xi Jinping set forth the proposal of building a community with a shared future for mankind. The essence of the proposal, if summarised, is that we want peace not war, development not poverty, cooperation not confrontation, multi-wins not

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single-win. The proposal aims at building consensus of and pooling strength from different countries to work together to address challenges and overcome difficulties. Over the past five years, the concept of building a community with a shared future for mankind has gained more support and applause. As we recalled that the 8th ICAPP chose “Building An Asian Community” as its main theme. China has provided impetus for win-win cooperation and common development. General Secretary Xi Jinping put forward the Belt and Road Initiative in 2013, a major step by China to promote common development for all. It aims at enabling partner countries and the rest of the world to share the opportunities brought about by China’s development. We welcome all parties to get on board the express train of China’s development so that the convergence of interests is expanded and more win- win cooperation with mutual benefits is carried out. Over the past five years, more than 140 countries and 80 international organisations worldwide actively supported and participated in the building of the BRI. United Nations and UN Security Council, among others, incorporated relevant contents of the BRI into their important resolutions. According to statistics, from 2013 to 2017, the volume of bilateral trade in goods between China and relevant partner countries and regions exceeded US$ 5 trillion. China made more than US$ 70 billion of direct investment to the above- mentioned area and created 210,000 job opportunities for them. A host of projects to enhance connectivity were implemented, which greatly facilitated the economic and social progress of relevant countries. China has showcased our achievements by opening-up and enhancing connectivity. Forty years ago, the Chinese people under the leadership of the CPC, marched on the great course of reform and opening-up. Since then, China has witnessed its average annual economic growth rate standing at 9.5 %, China’s proportion to the world economy rising from 1.8% to 15%, the average disposable income of urban residents increased by fourteen point four folds to that of 1978. 700 million poor people according to the existing UN standard were successfully lifted out of poverty. China contributed more than thirty percent of world economic growth for many successive years, making China one of the major stabilisers and driving force for world economic growth. Our experience of the past four decades tells us that opening-up brings about prosperity and innovation leads to progress. General Secretary Xi Jinping, on behalf of China, declared solemnly that China will not close its door to the world; we will only become more and more open. We have put forward a series of policies and measures at higher levels to promote more pragmatic cooperation in wider areas. The first-ever China International Import Expo will be held in Shanghai next month. It is no ordinary expo but a major move by China to materialise our promise for opening the Chinese market. It shows China's firm commitment to the opening-up policy. China has contributed to multilateralism. China and the CPC have been a staunch supporter and guardian for multilateralism. We firmly support the multilateral trade regimes and strongly oppose trade protectionism. China has actively participated in building the global multilateral system. We initiated the establishment of the Asian

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Infrastructure Investment Bank and the Silk Road Fund, facilitated the building of the BRICS Development Bank, set up the first UN permanent peacekeeping police squad, established China-UN Peace and Development Fund and the Assistant Fund for South-South Cooperation. We, through all these concrete actions, have played a constructive role in building the global multilateral system.

Ladies and Gentlemen, Dear friends,

The CPC always holds the view that political parties should guide the national development of their respective countries and play a key role in promoting progress of human civilization. In the era of dramatic changes and when faced with common opportunities and challenges, we need not only to make the right choices but also make concerted efforts so that the potential of political parties can be unleashed in the building of an Asian community with a shared future. Assume the historic responsibilities. Political parties should always align the parties’ future and destiny with that of the country, the nation and the entire mankind. They should always bear in mind the interests of the country and the world, the overall and long-term situation and the happiness and dignity of the people. They should leverage their advantages in steering and uniting different forces and the people, take up the mission of the times and live up to people’s expectations in line with the trend towards peace, development, and win-win cooperation. Offering theoretical insights. As the representative of the people and the formulator of policies, political parties should solicit opinions and pool wisdoms from different channels, levels and dimensions. They should always summarise experience from practice so as to offer useful insights and suggestions for their national development. Despite their differences in ideological persuasions, political parties from different countries should strengthen exchanges of ideas and thoughts, search for good practices to address challenges and promote win-win cooperation through discussion. Steer the course for progress. Political parties of different types and countries should unite with the courage to take the lead. They should seek to expand the common interests of peoples with different beliefs, cultures, and of different regions, build consensus for development and steer the course to meet the goal of building a community with a shared future for mankind. As pointed out by General Secretary Xi Jinping that so long as we share this goal, plan together, work together, move toward it step by step, day by day, we will surely succeed in building a community with a shared future for mankind. In this great process, Asian political parties should move ahead of others. As an important multilateral platform for Asian inter-party exchanges, ICAPP should continue to play the role of a bridge connecting political parties in this region for better communication and enhanced efforts for peace, cooperation, solidarity and openness. As the largest party in the world, the CPC is ready to work together with world political parties, those in Asia in particular, to offer political guidance for the building of an Asian community with a shared future.

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Hon. Daya Gamage, Minister of Social Welfare and Primary industries, Sri Lanka

Mr Chairman, Distinguish members,

It is with great pleasure, privilege and respect that I address this audience. On this momentous occasion, I wish to take this opportunity to convey my good wishes and sincere appreciation on behalf of the people of Sri Lanka to organizers of this 10th General Assembly of the ICAPP here in Moscow. I also participate in the first ICAPP meeting with the European Parliament held in London during May 17-20 2018.

Friends, the policy authority for tackling global problems and mobilising the necessary resources are vested in individual states and potential solutions to them are situated at transnational, regional and global level. In this context, I am extremely happy to state that the topic of this plenary session is a timely requirement and very important for stimulating the necessary linkages among our countries.

Today, development practitioners are increasingly aware of the role that social, economic and political structures play in shaping countries development paths and results. Failure to undertake the necessary changes is a chief cause for instability of any country. The people of Sri Lanka have well recognised this, and therefore they have changed the Government in 2015.I wish to take this opportunity to place this on record. Accordingly, they have elected a new Government. This Government consists of the United National Party and the Sri Lanka Freedom Party-the two largest parties in Sri Lanka. Traditionally rivals, they enter into a grand coalition beginning a new era in political collaboration. This has given us the mandate to restore peace, inclusivity, transparency and stability. Today, democratic norms including that of good governance, transparency and use of justice are being enriched in the country. The United Nations Human Right Council’s resolution on “Promoting Reconciliation, Accountability, and Human Rights in Sri Lanka, commented the initiatives already taken by the new Government.

Friends, our Government is a great example to reveal the importance of the internal unity of political parties towards the development of our economies and building of international ties. I wish to elaborate more about the benefits we gained due to this political coalition. We have amended the constitution limiting the enormous power given to the executive presidency. We are now working to introduce measures to strengthen parliament. We are making every effort for the national reconciliation with the support of the all political parties. In order to achieve this, we are discussing with international community such as South Africa, the architecture of this mechanism.

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The country has made a significant progress in its socio-economic and human development indicators. Social indicator ranks amongst the highest in our region and compare favourably those in middle income countries. The economy has shaped towards prosperity with the national poverty ratio declined to 4 percent.

The Government is planning to carry out the next generation of economic reforms to make Sri Lanka a highly competitive economy-we are aiming to be the most competitive county in South Asia on par with South East Asia. Sri Lanka has been at the heart of Indian Ocean and more precisely in the Bay of Bengal. We will maximise the benefit of this location by entering into free trade agreements with India, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Myanmar, Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore and Indonesia. We are preparing over selves for an Asia Pacific based on Trans Pacific Partneships. We are also successfully negotiated with EU to obtain GSP+preferencial enabling access to the European Union and tourism receipts. Our development strategy is mainly assisted by Japan, China, South Korea, India, USA, EU and various donors. Fellow members of these countries who participate in this forum are requested to play a positive role in realizing the implementation our development programs.

Friends, holding of this forum are very important for discussing a number of challenges that we are facing today. Racial prejudice like black and white, conflict between various countries on different biological issues like border issues, atomic power, water and energy issues, export-import problems and commercial issues lead to misundestaning.The ultimate outcome of such issues is the creation of international tensions. The personal attitude of political leaders and their special interest are creating the ground for this unfortunate situation. These leaders only dictate their followers and do not give people proper scope to express their view, and therefore people feel neglected. Member of political parties who are appearing here in Moscow today are encouraged to prevent the authoritarian approach of such leaders and enable the participation of general public in national and international affairs thereby creating a trouble free societies. We are determined to build a society where everyone is able to live with freedom and dignity as equal citizens.

There are good signs both in the growth of world GDP as well as activities in trade and industrial production couple with strengthening business and consumer confidence. However, the upcoming economic competition among leading economies is detrimental to this sound economic environment. We should develop linkages to overcome this problem. It will enable to fulfil our goals and bring higher living standard to our people. Achieving gender equality is still a challenge in many countries. Women are discriminated in different form such as ignorance, cast, dowry, ethnicity, education and religion. These are impediments to build peace in any society. The necessary measure need to be discussed in the forum of this nature for introduction of remedial actions to remove discrimination against women. Women being a majority in population of Sri Lanka, we are enacting laws eliminating all forms of discrimination against women. We have increased the elected women

130 Speeches by the Participants of the 10th GA representation in parliament and local political authorities from 5 percent to 25 percent for the first time in the political history of our country.

We are totally committed to eradication of drugs and drug trafiking.Illicit drugs have become the most serious challenge face by our countries and the intercity of this problem is very large in my country. Unless we take early steps to stop the menace of drugs, we will face with a catastrophe of unprecedented magnitude.

Today, children are victims of domestic and international conflicts. They lose their loved one and bread winners and end up with starvation. They do not have access to education and compelled to work as child labour. In order to protect them, and give them the life they deserve in society, the political members who participate in this session think very seriously to make effective programs very essentially and urgently.

The rapid rise and spread of radicalism among youth in different societies is endangering the security and sustainability of regions. While taking the short team measures to tackle them in a systematic manner, every ruling parties in our countries should make, concerted efforts to introduce the necessary enduring solutions. In my opinion, the best way is the restructuring of our educational systems by nurturing the habit of thinking for building of peace and harmony.

We should resolve a number of regulatory and policy issues facing business. We should remove barriers to transfer of technology and skills. The climate change IS threatening the livelihood our people. We should give high priority for tackling it in a coordinated manner. Finally am sure, that the international inter- party cooperation we are building here in Moscow under the ICAPP umbrella will resolve all these issues for gearing our countries towards the development.

Thank you once again.

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Hon. Sujata Koirala, Member of the ICAPP Standing Committee, Member of Parliament and Former Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister of Nepal, Nepali Congress Party, Nepal

Mr. Chairman, It gives me immense pleasure to speak on the 10th General Assembly of International Conference of Asian Political Parties. I would like to thank United Russia Party for their stewardship organizing the Conference in this beautiful and historic city of Moscow. I would also like to thank the Government and people of Russian Federation for their warm hospitality extended to us since our arrival. Political parties are change agent in any society. They mobilize the people, get support from them and work for them. They are the part of any modern political system. Without the engagement of political parties in state affairs, modern governance system can't function well. Therefore, it would be more prudent that the political parties should take their affairs more seriously.

The International Conference of Asian Political Parties was launched in 2000 with the aim to promote exchange and cooperation between political parties with various ideologies from different Asian countries. The twenty first century is interconnected and interdependent. The development of science and technology has brought the society and countries closer. The world has seen unprecedented wealth creation where rich are becoming richer. On the other hand, people in developing countries facing unemployment, hunger and disease. It would be wise to discuss in the ICAAP the problems of our people and countries faces today and chalk out to strategy to address them. The member parties need to have more meaningful interaction that we can intervene into the problem

Mr. Chairman, It has been an important forum to develop friendship between parties and share experience with them. The interconnectedness and interdependence of countries have provided opportunities for meaningful economic development. Though, there is chance of misuse of these assets by anti-social elements, terrorists, drug traffickers, human smugglers. The inter- party forum who are working in their countries could be a strong link that we could share our experience, extend cooperation to address these problems.

Climate change is becoming crucial issue for us that has potentiality to destroy human civilization. Drought, uneven weather patterns, scarcity of water resources, desertification, rising temperature are becoming serious threat for our countries. One country cannot address these problems and we need multi-pronged strategy from all side that we could handover safer earth for our future generation. To address such issue, the inter-party cooperation could be best tool to push agenda in different countries together.

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Mr. Chairman, Let me briefly touch on my parent organization Nepali Congress Party. The party was established in 1947 by late Prime Minister BP Koirala and since then it has been a champion of democracy and human rights in Nepal. During the seven-decade long journey, the party has proved itself an organization that worked for freedom, democracy, human rights, openness, liberalism and pluralism. Nepali Congress has witness and nursed the major political change and development. Hundreds of youths sacrificed their life for Nepali Congress struggle. Nepali Congress led movement forced Rana Oligarchy to hand over power to people's representative in 1951. Similarly, its movement forced the autocratic political system in 1991 for multiparty system. Nepali Congress’s movement led by late Prime Minister Girija Prasad Koirala forced the King to give people's right to choose their political destiny making Nepal as newly establish Republic. Similarly, late Koirala brokered peace brought permanent peace in Nepal ending decade long insurgency. It is the Nepali Congress led Government brought differing parties into dialogue table which brought Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal's Constitution in 2015.

Nepali Congress Party has been friend of peoples of Nepal over the decades. It has won trust of Nepali people by popular mandate, by people's participation on its activities. Nepali Congress led Government's policies have brought substantive change in the people face uplifting millions of people out of poverty. Now, Nepali Congress Party is main opposition party of Nepal's parliament but the policies which brought the Nepali Congress led Governments are still continue affecting the people's life. Nepali Congress Party has fraternal relation with parties of different countries. It has been source people's power and works for empower to the people.

Mr. Chairman, Twenty first century is a century of democracy and human rights. Every country has different level of development. Since political parties are responsible for change in the people face in their country, we should cooperate each other, share the experiences making the word better for us and for our future generations.

I thank you Mr. Chairman.

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Ms. Nadia Choudary, Member, International Affairs Sub-Committee of the Bangladesh Awami League, Bangladesh

“Friendship to all, malice to none”-This is the basis of Bangladesh’s Foreign Policy as coined by our Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman. One of the first things that Mujib did after the bloody birth of Bangladesh in 1971 was to incorporate Bangladesh in the international inter-state organisations such as the UN, Commonwealth, Non-Aligned Movement, Organisation of Islamic Cooperation and many more, similar to the platform of ICAPP, to push for the recognition of a sovereign Bangladesh.

Since then, Bangladesh has grown from being a war-torn country, economically poor and a foreign aid dependent country to qualifying to becoming a developed nation. It has gone from a time when the Russian Embassy and Cultural Centre had to be shut down under the previous ruling party which actively alienated India to now maintaining strong global ties under the leadership of Hon’ble Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina. It is because of the Awami League’s emphasis on the importance of international inter-party cooperation in the formation and development of political, economic and social ties between states that Bangladesh is actively helping in the realization of the Bangladesh-China-India-Myanmar Economic Corridor, also known as the “New Silk Route”, actively exploring the prospects of the Bay of Bengal Industrial Growth Belt with Japan, plays a leading role in the Bay of Bengal initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical & Economic Cooperation, active role in the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation which led to the landmark Motor Vehicle Agreement ensuring free movement of good between Bangladesh, Bhutan, India and Nepal and many more projects enhancing regional connectivity and growth.

Through all of this, Bangladesh is now at the epicentre of the projected geopolitical centre of gravity, it is set to become the world’s market hub, sea port hub and has been recognised as the fastest growing economy. Our HPM Sheikh Hasina has become known as the harbinger of promoting a Culture of Peace, climate change efforts and women empowerment to the international community for which she has won many international awards. I am a proud Bangladeshi and I am here today to extend my invitation to the world leaders present here to engage in more cooperation and new projects with Bangladesh. Sheikh Hasina has gracefully tackled the Rohingya crisis which had the potential to destabilise the entire region and in this regard we seek further cooperation from all of you. Now, I would like to come to an observation for ICAPP.

Yesterday, I heard all the speakers discuss mutual respect for promotion of peace. However, I did not see a single woman chairing the sessions or as an ICAPP Standing Committee Member. As a country leading in women empowerment, it is my duty to point out that no dialogue for sustainable peace can be successful without women leaders. Mutual respect starts

134 Speeches by the Participants of the 10th GA with each of us in this room regardless of age, sex, religion and race. I would like to conclude with a quote from Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman from back in 1972: “It is my earnest hope that there will at last be peace and stability in the sub-continent. Let there be an end, once for all, to the sterile policy of confrontation between neighbours. Let's not fritter away our national resources but use them to lift the standard of living of our peoples.”

Thank you United Russia Party, you have always been a key ally to Bangladesh, thank you ICAPP.

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Hon. Dr. Nalinee Taveesin, Member of the ICAPP Standing Committee, Vice-Chairperson of the ICAPP Women’s Wing, Former Thailand Trade Representative and Former Minister Attached to Prime Minister’s Office, Pheu Thai Party, Thailand

Excellencies Distinguished Participants

I am honored and privileged to be speaking in front of you today, the esteemed members of ICAPP. Foremost in my thought is to thank our host for the warm hospitality and their attention to details.

In view of what’s happening around the world from the trade dispute between major economies, which is likely to escalate further, to the volatility in emerging-market currencies and economic instability in recent month, the world is at risk of struggling in an uncertainty of economic mess.

The first question that comes to my mind is whether our economy is strong and safe enough for our people’s prosperity and financial security from the rising risks of global economy? And I think we are stable at the moment. But my next question is, how we can sustain our economic prosperity and security? De-escalating those tensions and working toward a stronger global trade system are recommended as a short-term resolution. A safe global economy means tackling the issue of sustainability, climate change, clean energy, sustainable environment, peace and inequality, for the medium to longer term solutions. The question then is whether the rest of the world can withstand, the eventual economic slowdown in those major economies. I think we have the same answer that to achieve these goals, we need strong international cooperation.

This is why we need each other. What we can do together can maintain inter-regional global peace and stability that we have worked so hard to build and which we must not squander.

Excellencies Distinguished Participants

Political parties are considered one of the most prominent political institutions that contribute to the making of domestic and foreign policies, depending upon the role of the party, ideology, culture, and society. But the world is changing and people are connected as never before. We also share global values and challenges, issues such as financial instability, climate change and the depletion of natural resources are not confined by national border. In a changing world full of new players, new systems and urgent global issues, the traditional bilateral form of international cooperation is no longer the most appropriate. It offers too few

136 Speeches by the Participants of the 10th GA opportunities to address the complex and pressing issues within a particular country, and offers no response to these wider challenges.

Therefore, international inter-party cooperation is important as it creates the dialogue platforms that bring together the leadership of all parties, both the ruling and opposition parties, to share their thoughts, foster domestic accountability, and promote accommodative politics between parties across the globe.

The involvement of the political leadership in an equal and inclusive manner helps parties to pre-empt political conflicts that might otherwise spill over into uncertainty environment. Furthermore, it enables parties to find shared ideas on policy and reform issues.

International inter-party cooperation also poses an opportunity for parties to share their approaches and experiences of governance based on mutual respect. All parties should understand and respect the differences of situations and experiences of others, while seeking common grounds and recommendations.

In view of bringing in new ideas and narrowing the gaps of inequality, international inter- party cooperation should support inclusive dialogue involving youth and women. This approach will help to strengthen youth and women’s participation and representation at all levels and roles, engagement around common issues and areas of cooperation that may lead to the production of a joint framework for youth and women policies.

The idea of organized cooperation between political parties in different countries more or less happened during the post-world war era in which cooperation mainly focused on general and ideological problems. The new international shifts focus to cooperation based on mutual benefit, common prosperity, and sustainability.

International inter-party cooperation is a potential approach that would bring long-lasting benefits for inter-regional development, diplomatic and social ties, uplifting the economies and peoples. To derive benefits of this cooperation, this requires a mindset for positive development for peace, prosperity, equality and sustainability that is unrestrained by political, economic and cultural differences. Such is the paramount task before us at ICAPP, and I think we can make a contribution to achieving this task.

As I mentioned at the outset of my remarks, the liberal international order is no longer what it used to be. Non-traditional imperatives from climate change, clean energy, sustainable environment, disaster relief, and pandemics are demanding our collective action, while traditional challenges of global tension and conflict have also intensified. All parties should move with the tide of the times of the changing world. A more deepened and enmeshed cooperation can help us meet and overcome these challenge to retain and restore global peace and stability that we have come to know so well. Thank you very much

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Hon. Youssef Awad, Member of the ICAPP Standing Committee and Coordinator for Asia and Overseas, Free Patriotic Party of Lebanon

Excellencies ladies and gentlemen

Humanity has failed, since the dawn of the civilization. Years after years, armies invading each other’s, for the sake of the power. Almost 200 years ago Napolean Bonaparte lost millions of his soldiers right here at the gates of Russia. Again and almost 70 years ago Hitler followed the same fate, and lost millions of men on the edge of the Russian cities. Russia, today is the land of the free haven't we learned anything yet before we self-destruct our lonely planet in this universe? Is violence is rooted in the human DNA? Today terror has reinvented itself for the service of the arms factories only regional wars, less soldiers, more missiles. Terror is the product of the fear itself, and the illusion of power. Civilizations in history lasted only for a while what really last is our naked human truth. To solve our present problems, we must come out of our Greek tragedies and face our own demons in order to create a permanent civil peace. We must choose between the justice of the force and the force of the justice. At the end of the day we will all face the same destiny: death. And like a Phoenix we must rise from the ashes of human wars. Move from theory to practice while (as the ICAPP political parties) we are all against terror and extremism, yet we are unable as nations to compromise on the issues of our border disputes for the sake of peace.

And while the ICAPP still holds a master card, an opportunity, in the form of the legitimacy of representing the grassroots of the people power with major political parties presently in power spreading all across the Asian continent. Let's add our rich cultural diversity a model for a society of mutual respect and trust. Is it too ambitious to upgrade our partnership with each other's with economic integration? A whole new way of a start of cementing our union and common vision.

My dear president of Lebanon His excellency Michel Aoun and the founder of the free patriotic movement ,has proposed recently at the UN to make Lebanon an international venue for dialogue and peace among the nations of the world .

As you know geographically the historical land of ancient Phoenicia is squeezed between three continents, Europe, Asia and Africa. So I propose to convene a special session for the ICAPP standing committee members tonight to elect five members for a peace committee selected from five different regions of Asia, Far East, Southeast Asia, northern Asia, Central Asia, and the Western Asia. This peace committee will have a challenge of drafting a platform for dialogue in hotspots to encourage disputing countries for direct negotiations and

138 Speeches by the Participants of the 10th GA eventually to help make a compromise of a lasting peace; this committee can become a catalyst for progress that can work jointly with the UN institutions. Once we are on that path, we can make positive contributions and a power shift not only in Asia but all over the globe.

This will have the task of changing the present dangerous status quo in the world, instead of waiting for a new conflict to arise.

God bless you only. May peace be upon you.

Thank you.

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Dr. Samia Raheel Qazi, Director of Foreign Affairs, Member of Women’s Wing of the Jamaat-e-Islami (Islamic Party), Pakistan

The world today is witness to rapid globalization, with events in one part, having very real, direct and indirect, consequences for the rest. Borders are becoming increasingly arbitrary, especially with the current advancement of social media and communication technology. News travels instantaneously and is inevitably followed by reactions from all over the globe. As such, communication and a mutual understanding of possible outcomes between stakeholders from different countries are highly beneficial.

Democratic alliances between countries are formulated by those who have received popular vote of their people. These representatives of the people, with the exception of the recently increasing independent candidates, are members of the different political parties in play in the countries’ political arenas. Ideally, parties with the more attractive manifestos as well as positive past service records are the ones that are victorious. These manifestos usually revolve around social, political and economic issues that are closest to the voters’ needs and address them in the most efficient ways.

Globally, a lot of the issues faced are becoming universal concerns which can be better dealt with if parties from different countries unite and dedicate their resources to finding solutions to these problems. This can ensure faster results in shorter amounts of time as progress can be cohesive instead of different parties in different countries coming up with similar solutions in differing frames of time. It is most likely to work where parties with similar agendas are able to put aside their differences and distances globally and come together for the greater good.

Instances of where such interparty cooperation can produce great results are when certain key elements are core principles of party agendas and are always considered before any policy making done by that party. For example, the Green Party of the United States has set its root in trying to enable and enact green policies, i.e. environmentally friendly policies wherever and however that is possible. This party was founded by extension from various Australian Green Parties, thus resulting in similar agendas and annual meeting stop discuss their course of actions. What this does is put all existing problems within a country regarding the key focal point, i.e. the environment in this case, and bring forward a variety of possible solutions which can then be adapted by each area or country according to its own need. This process of mutual collaboration and understanding minimizes the effort put in individually while at the same time providing some accountability to ensure that the required steps are enacted.

Such international interparty cooperation can work to show marked results in other spheres of global issues as well, political, economic and social, all. Socialist parties can get together from different countries and find ways to minimize damage done through capitalist structures,

140 Speeches by the Participants of the 10th GA religious and liberal parties can come together to determine how best to provide religious freedom to each set of people from a variety of religions, while not infringing upon the rights of any other or any one not conforming to religion. Many policies can thus be made in this way, making it easier to provide and adhere to universal benchmarks, whether in the fields of education, health or economic prosperity. The practical example of where such cooperation already works is in the case of many global organization, like the UN, WHO where people from all over the world come together with joint efforts to eradicate problems. This is just the same case on a more intricate level. Such cooperation can further ensure that once these parties or some from amongst them are in power, they can work together towards advancement of not only their own vested interests, but those for people all over the world and also maintain some model of peace and harmony.

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Mr. Yogendra Bahadur Shahi, Expert of Foreign Affairs and International Relations Department of the CPN-UML, on behalf of Hon. Jhalanath Khanal, Member of the ICAPP Standing Committee and Former Prime Minister of Nepal

Hon Jose de Venecia Founder Chairman of the ICAPP Standing Committee, Hon Svetlana Zhurova, First Deputy Chairman of the Committee on the International Affairs of the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation, Park Robyug, Secretary General of the ICAPP, Hon Nguyen Manh Cuong, Vice Chairman of the Commission for the External Relations of the Central Committee of Communist Party of Vietnam, Vice Presidents and Standing Committee Member of the ICAPP, Respected leaders from different political parties Distinguished guests, Ladies and Gentleman,

First of all, let me convey the best wishes of Hon Jhala Nath Khanal, Member of the ICAPP Standing Committee and Former Prime Minister of Nepal for the success of the 9th General Assembly of International Conference of Asia Political Parties. We apologise that due to unexpected circumstances of party crucial meeting, Hon Khanal could not make his presence in this very crucial event. I am attending this session on behalf of Hon Khanal and my party.

On this great occasion I equally bring the best wishes of Party Chairman and Prime Minister Rt. Hon KP Sharma Oli and Party Chairman and former Prime Minister Hon Pushpa Kamal Dahal (Prachanda) along with the Hon Madhav Kumar Nepal, the Head of Foreign Affairs and other senior leaders of party for the success of this ICAPP Assembly in order to achieve peace, prosperity and cooperation in the region.

Our sincere thanks to United Russia Party for hosting this excellent event in this historic and marvellous capital city Moscow. Thanks for your warm welcome and reception making our stay comfortable and pleasant. We express our thanks for the ICAPP secretariat who provided us an opportunity to express our views in the plenary.

Let me express some selected highlights on this pertinent issues of inter party cooperation for political, economic, social ties among the states.

Distinguished guests,

We have learnt in Nepal as to how a country from conflict can be transitioned for peace and stability. Nepal resolved the conflict bringing on table together – the Nepal Communist Party (Maoist) waging a war against old system – while Nepal Communist Party (Unified Marxist Leninist) as a major left force and also Nepali Congress as a liberal democratic force were in existing political system. We together resolved the conflict, settled the peace process and promulgated the new constitution. We ended envy relationship. It was cooperative competition and many times there were joint and coalition governments among all parties turn

142 Speeches by the Participants of the 10th GA by turn. The foes become friends and constructive competitors. CPN UML and CPN-Maoist Centre were already unified and they contested general and local election making a coalition to rule the country and now Nepali Congress is remained as the responsible opposition. We all parties have set our task to drive country for the faster economic development because political contents without economic base will not be sustainable. Nepal is not free from weakness, though our process of working together in cooperative model can be good reference for other countries.

Ladies and gentleman,

There is no end of ideology. But the full phase of ideological conflicts has lost a great relevance. Historical cycle has shown us that these things are more bound to be learnt from each other. These pure ideological stances are too far from complete demanding a continue transformation process. All parties and systems needs to be more open up and ready to cooperate.

Peace, justice, development, human freedom, dignity and equality are indivisible values in any political systems. Those who excels these values will be successful country. The system and country harming those values will be destined to be a failure. Primarily such values should be voluntarily adopted on people’s will and these cannot be the subject of import and export for petty geopolitical interest. Open cooperation among different political parties creates better understanding and helps them to learn from each other.

Asian political process and socio-cultural mosaics are diverse. The more or less they have common is that many countries were under colonial yoke, poverty ridden and exploited despite their glorious past. Constructively handling diversity in politics provides a ground to learn from each other voluntarily. Handing cultural diversities in a craftsmanship provides us ‘a colourful salad bowl’ and a beautiful garden with varieties of flowers. We the Asian political parties must come up against sowing conflicts into religious cultural differences. The political parties in Asia need to have a more broader, adoptive, flexible, humanistic and scientific approach to realize differences as powerful assets. Respect and aspire of the diverse cultures and religions in a progressive way is a different things than the socio-cultural taboo we live in.

During the cold war of even sharp ideologically divided world order, the Soviet Union and India came closer while the closeness of the US and China was to create a next balance of power both seeking a different partners. Here the question is not to dig up on whether such alliances were natural or unnatural. But it is to ponder why the Asian countries and political parties cannot come together for common benefit, win-win approach, rejuvenate the whole region for peace, prosperity and harmony? If such an alliance was possible for balance of power during cold war, why a natural Asian unity is not possible for the good reason to create a broader humanity? The political forces should not give up the hope to create the condition of ideal situation instead of so called realism in geopolitical whim. The issues of global peace,

143 Speeches by the Participants of the 10th GA harmony, justice, equality, sustainable development and better livelihood of people are not the day dreams. These are the dreams to come true and fairly achievable as proven by many countries.

In front of our naked eyes, we have seen the tragedy of neoliberalism devastating African and Latin American economies to be more poorer and rapid accumulation of wealth in few hands leaving a bubble economic crisis in the hands of commoners. We witnessed the inefficiency of full handed socialist production system and its defects despite its greatness of egalitarian approach. In the wave of global capitalist process we saw many socialist oriented parties (both the communists and social democrats) compelled to sell the state assets for the survival of their economy. Ironically, the US, founder of the neoliberalism was compelled to nationalize and bailout the big corporations after the economic crisis started in 2008. We saw the People’s Republic of China once founded upon the pure socialist production system is now talking about more open up for investments, entrepreneurship and for more connected world economy. On the other hand, the US, ironically is becoming protectionist and striving towards wall building mentality. This whole process and development of opposites is desperately seeking a transformation of global economy demanding a great synthesis. The Asian political parties irrespective of their ideologies and political systems should not fail to properly recognize this new tendency.

Asian political forces must work together, not for ganging against any region or country, but for the broader interest of peace, prosperity and development of the region. They will be ready to be in a driving seat as a team by properly understanding that the Asian peace, stability and prosperity is pivotal for world peace and prosperity in the 21st first century. In doing so, all Asian countries together as a ‘flying geese’ can reach the destination of peace, stability and progress.

Respected dignitaries,

The sprouts of constructive regionalization are yet to be matured in different regions. Constructive Political forces should not let this process nibbling in a bud. For instance, the EU was the mature example of constructive regionalization despite some looming security sentiments persisted within cold war parameter. The Brigxit and raising of neo- fascist tendency is a worrisome matter even in the European countries even having the identities of being more liberal and system of welfare. Such scenario in Europe can also disturb a constructive regionalization process in other regions too.

For instance in Asia, ASEAN process is matured and constructive regionalization that we need to learn from and to expand. The Sub regional mechanism such as SAARC is not only limited in formality but often disturbing amid envy relationship between two giants of South Asia. The Middle East with two cliques-- Iran and Saudi in rivalry modes if persisted-- will lead the already ravaged Middle East nowhere than to the full phase devastation. There could be no more a lesson than the magnitude of crisis looming over Syrian conflict with the IS

144 Speeches by the Participants of the 10th GA manifestation. Besides, the long pending Israel and Palestine conflicts does seem still unsolvable. To solve the real problem, the regional powers and political parties of Middle East must think and work Out of Box in a constructive way.

The dialogue for peaceful reunification of two Koreas is the sign of unity out of opposites. It will be a corner stone for northern and far eastern regionalization process. The region can see new growth avenue with constructive engagement of Russia, two Koreas, China and Japan with their respective capital, technologies, natural and human resources. In this regards, Eastern Economic Forum initiated by Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping marshalled Belt and Road Initiatives (BRI) schemes could show their full scope with further linking with ASEAN and Eurasian growth nodes. Ladies and gentleman,

In the Asia Pacific region, the problem of South China Sea could be a real challenge for constructive regionalization. It can only be sorted out by building mutual confidence and consultation pursuing a win-win approach of adjoined parties without outer interference. Ladies and gentleman,

We need a more connected and closer Asia for a broader cooperation. Sometime we are mistaken to understand that connectivity is one way flow of goods and services. To understand our place as a market and other’s place as a production centre has only limited perspective. The process can be back flow harnessing their capital and technology with our natural resources and human resources. There is no other best evidence than the East Asian countries, China and later followed by India. Robust connectivity in the region enhances expanded production system building a greater economic pie. It cannot always be necessarily central periphery phenomena. Belt and Road Initiatives and other competitive yet constructive connectivity schemes must be enhanced by Asian political parties in a sustainable way.

Last not least, let us strive together in building politically and socio-culturally a diverse and colourful Asia yet physically and mentally a connected and economically a vibrant Asia. Long live the ICAPP! Long live Asian solidarity for peace and development!

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Hon. Mohammad Asim, Head of Secretariat of the National Coalition of Afghanistan

First of all I would like to congratulate 10th General Assembly (ICAPP) international Conference to Mr. Hion Jung leader of the united Russia party and all political parties of Asia who are participants of this conference. And I thank from (ICAPP) secretariat and leader of the united Russia party for holding this and hosting this conference.

And I also want to present messages and good yeast leadership of the national Alliance of Afghanistan secretariat (ICAPP) and political parties.

First I would like to give you information about political parties in Afghanistan: In Afghanistan as the rules apply of country more than 63 registered political parties and 4200 social organizations are activate. With that too the political parties aren’t so growth in our country because there are no chairs for political parties in parliament elections participations in our country the S.N.T.V system or vote are nontransferable.

Without any doubt as long as the parliamentary election is not party and there is no proper share for the political parties so it can’t improve. Therefore the political in Afghanistan tries by bringing adjustments in elections law pave the way for political parties improve.

Political parties through the establishment of broad relations together they can play a positive role in improving relationships friendly communication with countries causes’ area and international tensions try in this issue is important and historical of political parties.

With the advent of the phenomenon of terrorism called As- Qaeda, Daesh (ISIS), Taliban, the security problems of some countries is under the threat and by the starts of some wars in khalij Fars and middle east the independence of some countries is in dangerous.

From other side, imposing three-decade vicarious war by terrorists’ networks on the Afghanistan oppressed people made the Asian countries areas situation dangerous. Placing the terrorists’ networks made the Asian countries to vicarious bloody battle fight, murder and anti-humanitarian activities.

The last decade events in the world cleared that increasing the terrorists’ activities in the world is the war vicarious project of some powerful counties which interfere to internal affairs of other countries in order to gain its goals. The terrorists’ supporters after the funded their own projects entrust it’s accommodate to other regional countries.

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In this level, the Asia political parties has the important historical apostolate to associate its nation and government honestly in order to jointly combat against terrorists and also prevent from those government parties who cooperate with the terrorists for the implementation its projects.

The Asian Political parties has responsibility to combat against terrorists and keep the peace, security and increase the regional insecurity tension and endeavor for solution the countries disasters and support the regional security agreements such as 5th pier and others.

The political parties as developed and aim full organization cooperate to the countries for the making the economic, political and commercial relation with each other based on utilization of their capacity and capabilities people, and support the economic and commercial agreements.

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Hon. Manolo Pichardo, President of the COPPPAL

Processes of integration, interdependence and cooperation

The consolidation of a globalized economy scheme that involves the devaluation of tariff frontiers, has come to pulverize the verticality with which the traditional western powers administered world trade. This new reality designed from the policies of the Washington Consensus promoted by international financial organizations, had as a support for its viability the advancement of information and communication technologies, the improvement and massification of air, sea and land transport.

Regarding the displacement by land, it is necessary to emphasize that the design of high- speed trains, forces little by little the displacement of the heavy and slow trucks that still circulate on our roads and that were responsible, at the time, for the territorial connectivity that promoted trade and made capitalist development possible in countries such as the United States of North America.

The speed, high or slow, shrink or enlarge the space, hence in practical terms, for the medieval man of the tumbrel, the globe was immensely larger than for his pair of this century, who no longer waits months to receive a mail message or travel long distances, but, in a virtual way it connects with the world in real time, whether to converse, meet or witness events as if they were living them.

Our daily life is marked by a virtuality that transforms the way we produce wealth and distribute it, as it turns out that current business models are marked by this dynamic. Amazon and Alibaba are the greatest expression of a world mounted on the rails of satellite or fiber optics, in which books, television, radio, art, medicine and other areas of scientific and empirical knowledge take on new forms and find new ways to reach the citizen.

But this new way of living continues to drag the old fights for markets. From there the palpable challenges for the countries of emerging economies that, to continue in their advance towards development, must resort to the strength they find in the agreements for trade facilitation that can be achieved through intergovernmental agreements or processes of community integration. In both cases, cooperation must be a fundamental pillar for the start of these complex mechanisms, marked by the interdependence of economies and the agile flow of markets, which make us think of a global economy and a global market.

This is the reason why, in the current scheme, the protectionist measures that a specific country can promote, end up, directly or indirectly, affecting its economy with the limitation of its participation in the market as a result of measures aimed at respond to the action or natural reaction of a global market mounted on a fragmented industrial platform, as a consequence of offshoring, spread between developing and developed countries that share the

148 Speeches by the Participants of the 10th GA manufacture of components that end up converging on different continents for the final assembly and subsequent commercialization.

The horizontality of current world trade faces the challenge of permanently burying violence and harassment for the conquest of markets for the purpose of dispossession based on rules of the game that apply double standards, which condemned countries with weak economies to backwardness and poverty, a poverty that finances the opulence and waste of the developed world. In order to have an idea of what has been affirmed, it is necessary to remember that about 6 million children die annually from hunger in the world, while in the developed countries tons of food in good condition are thrown away every day.

According to the webpage OXFAM Intermón, Tristram Stuart, author of the book "Waste", has affirmed that "more food is wasted in the world than could be consumed by all hungry people", and sets the example of the richest country in the world, of the one who claims wastes 40 million tons of food each year, an amount that could feed a billion people who go to bed hungry every day.

What emerges from these data is the raw truth that the world produces enough bread so that there is no hungry human being. The issue that worries us and we constantly discuss in all national and international forums, is that there is a maldistribution of wealth, an excessive concentration in the hands of a few, precisely because of an unfair world trade, manipulated for the benefit of those countries that throw away the bread in good conditions, because they have so much to buy, that they buy what they do not need and then throw it away without the slightest remorse.

Some people raise this issue as a matter of moral order, and, sometimes, even religious, but the truth is that it is a matter of justice, of a justice that must be fair, that which awakens us the desire to build new paradigms in economic relations between states. Paradigms that are based on sincere pacts that have as a pillar the mutual benefit, the shared profit that allows us to move towards the construction of a civilized civilization, of dialogue and cooperation, that has as its center the human being, that understands and assumes that the goods are produced to satisfy the material and spiritual needs of man, and not that man exists to produce goods.

On the political parties rests a great responsibility in the face of this present with future characteristics that we must deal with in light of the events that recompose the global scenario. We are the instruments to mold, from the direction of the State, the global society that sees, with a mixture of uncertainty and hopes, the future that comes to us with obsolete schemes of leading society and that resist dying, constituting itself in obstacles that impede the advancement of the new that should serve as a standard to enter into the dynamics of the expectations of the new society.

The organizations that attend this activity, representing our countries, are on the crest of the wave that represents the new. We are the new for the construction of a new world. Let's go, with our governments, moving towards new routes that open opportunities for trade, cooperation, and integration. We have already built spaces for investment and job creation, for the cultural exchange that guides relations towards understanding and tolerance, towards

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Copppal assumes the commitment to continue working together with the International Conference of Asian Political Parties (ICAPP) and with the Council of African Political Parties (CAPP) in strengthening the relations between our parties and governments to create closer ties between our peoples and to direct projects that benefit everyone. We are sure that we are essential actors in the construction of a new civilization.

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Hon. Park Young-sun, Member of the ICAPP Standing Committee, Co-Chairperson of the ICAPP Media Forum, Member of the National Assembly and Former Chairperson and Floor Leader of The Minjoo Party, Republic of Korea

Excellences, distinguished journalist, ladies and gentleman!

I am Park Young-sun Co-chairperson of the Media Forum of the ICAPP on behalf of the Media Forum members, I am honored to report on the result of the 4th ICAPP Media Forum which was held yesterday.

At the meeting we held discussions under the same themes of General Assembly with a special focus on the role of political parties and the media.

- Total 10 speakers representing journalists and political parties made presentations and suggested the ideas and how to contribute to achieve goal of the ICAPP.

We adopted the Moscow Statement of Media Forum reflecting overall views of the participants. I wish to invite your attention to four important points included in the Statement.

- First, we affirmed the critical role of the media in reducing international tensions and combating extremism, in supporting the functioning of democratic societies. - Second, we have agreed to a proposal which suggested to add our serious concern about the Freedom of Expression and Life arising out of the Saudi Arabian journalist Jamal Khashoggi incident in our Declaration. - Third, we emphasized that political parties in cooperation with their government have to promote a general enabling environment for seeking, receiving and imparting information and ideas as a freedom of expression. - Finally, we reconfirmed the need to create an institutional mechanism to encourage more journalists to participate in the Media Forum. We also emphasized the importance of promoting a program on mutual exchange among journalists.

In this regard, we hope that the Media Forum will continue to be held on a regular basis.

Let me express my sincere thanks to the United Russia Party and the Secretariat for all the arrangements to make our meeting so successful, and for the warm hospitality rendered to us during our stay in Moscow.

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Hon. Park Ro-byug, Secretary General of the ICAPP

Hon. Jose de Venecia, Founding Chairman of the ICAPP, Hon. Andrey Klimov, Excellencies, Distinguished Participants,

I am very pleased to note that we all together have achieved meaningful outcomes at the 10th Meeting of the General Assembly.

I am particularly honoured to briefly report the results of the Trilateral Meeting held this morning.

The members of the ICAPP Standing Committee, Hon. Manolo Pichardo, President of the

COPPPAL, and Hon. Mohamed Yousif Abdullah from the Council of African Political

Parties attended the Meeting.

I would like to introduce to you two important elements among the outcomes of the Meeting.

First, our members recognized the need to expand substantive cooperation. We are committed to developing and discussing thematic items on peace and economic benefits. We will make concerted effort to address the challenges of unilateralism.

Second, distinguished participants of three organizations agreed to establish the Common

Secretariat of our three regional organizations. It was decided to designate the ICAPP

Secretary General and its Secretariat to take charge of the Common Secretariat and to work closely with COPPPAL and CAPP.

As Secretary General of the ICAPP, I wish to humbly accept this noble and important task. I am particularly encouraged by our members who emphasize the roles of the Common

Secretariat to expanding contribution to the positive progress for peace and common prosperity on the Korean Peninsula.

I have mentioned our Directions of Cooperation with “Continuity” and “Change”.

When we apply the two concepts of cooperation to Trilateral Cooperation, we will preserve and develop good practice of the ICAPP: Consensus building process. We will also develop relevant and effective approach to addressing new challenges and global trends.

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I will do my best to bring about new dynamic progress toward solid peace, mutual benefit under continuous support and valuable proposals by our members of three continents.

Finally, we have prepared the Trilateral Cooperation Statement covering what I reported for your future references.

Thank you very much!

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Hon. Park Young-sun, Co-Chairperson of the ICAPP Media Forum, Member of the ICAPP Standing Committee, Member of the National Assembly and Former Chairperson and Floor Leader of The Minjoo Party, Republic of Korea

Excellences, Distinguished Representative,

It is my great honours to officially declare the opening of the 4th meeting of the Media Forum.

First of all, I wish to thank the United Russia Party to organize this meeting efficiently, together with the Secretariat.

Before moving to the main presentation, I wish to introduce Mr. Yoon Taehyung as a new member of our Bureau. He is a very competent and active journalist in Korea’s News one Agency.

As a former journalist in the media, I have a special attachment and affection to the activities and continuous development of this Media Forum. So, I would like to present my initial views.

First, I hope that you will be able to make constructive discussions on the two themes with special topics on the role of political parties and media.

In my view, one of the starting points in the strategy to reduce international tensions and combating extremism is to ensure that the media are able to keep society informed. Therefore, political parties together with the government have to promote a favorable environment for seeking and distributing information and ideas as a freedom of expression.

Secondly, we highly value what Secretariat and our members have worked to realize the establishment of the Cooperation Agreement with UNESCO. We confirm the need to review formulate policies and programs on media and information literary which UNESCO recommends in order to provide all citizen with critical competence in the 21st century.

Thirdly, I hope that our members will review and send their opinions on draft of the rules and working modalities of the Media Forum to the Secretariat. It is designed to improve the existing terms of references of the Media Forum.

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Finally, we share the common understanding that the meetings of the Media Forum need to be frequently organized, in various formats such as at sub-regional levels or inter-continental levels.

Thank you very much for your attention!

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Hon. Kim Chang-gi, Vice-Chairperson of the ICAPP Media Forum, Publisher / Executive Editor of Monthly Chosun and Chosun Weekly, and Chairman of the Board of Shinyoung Fund of Kwanhun Journalists Club, Republic of Korea

Thank you, Madame Chairperson. Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen.

As a journalist myself, it is always very nice to see other colleague journalists from other countries. But today, actually I am not that happy with the number of journalists in this Forum.

We should have had more journalists here from more countries around Asia.

Let me remind you of Seoul Statement of the 3rd Media Forum in July, last year (2017), in which we said,

“We shared the view that the Media Forum of the ICAPP is a very useful platform, in terms of not only promoting ‘One Asia,’ but also enhancing the understanding and cooperation among journalists. In this regard, we expressed our hope that there should be an abundant and effective institutional mechanism to encourage more journalists to participate in this Forum, and further agreed that we need to initiate a program fostering mutual exchange and cooperation among journalists in Asia, hopefully from the year 2018.”

With that Seoul Statement in mind, I cannot but lament that only few journalists could actually come here today. And also, exchange program among journalists has not been facilitated yet.

While I am thankful for all the efforts that the ICAPP Secretariat has made, in cooperation with the United Russia Party, for this year’s ICAPP General Assembly and the 4th Media Forum, I do feel regretful that many member states of the ICAPP have failed in finding ways to implement more journalists’ participation, let alone, an exchange program among journalists.

I think of an example from ASEM, which is Asia-Europe Meeting. ASEM has a permanent secretariat as ICAPP does, and its own foundation to financially facilitate all its activities. For instance, ASEM used to host round-tables of journalists from both Asia and Europe on various specific issues.

I think the ASEM model could be a way for the ICAPP Media Forum to practically implement more journalists’ gatherings, more often, on opportunities of common interests.

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To that effect, I think each member political party or each member country of the ICAPP should find ways to share the burden to financially support the secretariat and all the activities it initiates.

Now, secondly, I wanted to discuss on paragraph 18 of the original draft of Moscow Statement that had already been distributed to us. I have worked for 38 years as a journalist, and in my view, the basic standpoint of this Media Forum should be: not to endorse and legitimize abusive surveillance of the government authority that may choke freedom of expression and free flow of information, but to encourage media freedom, against abusive power of the government.

In this sense, I thought that the paragraph 18 of the draft should be just deleted, because the draft paragraph 18 contained serious problems in the sense that it may legitimize governments’ broad restrictive measures in the name of prohibiting so-called ‘false news’ or ‘non-objective information.’

I thought it would be wise that we the Media Forum should not give any impression or hints that we legitimize and open ways for authoritative governments to meddle in news market and restrict free flow of information.

But since I privately expressed such worries yesterday about the problems it contained, the secretariat of the ICAPP has decided to delete the original paragraph 18 from the final version that we are going to adopt today.

So, I am pleased with that decision, and want to thank the ICAPP secretariat, Secretary General, Ambassador Park, and Chairperson, Madame Park, who was also a prominent TV news reporter before she joined real politics as a Member of the National Assembly of Korea.

I am concluding my remarks, here.

Thank you all, very much.

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Mr. Yoon Tae-hyung, Vice Chairperson of the ICAPP Media Forum and Politics News Editor of News 1, Republic of Korea

As an Indian author once stated, we are living in an age of anger. The globalized and volatile markets provide considerable opportunity for a small group of elites but create a massive number of losers, whose everyday lives are full of anxiety and insecurity. Furthermore, immigrants are challenging dominant ideas of citizenship and culture. With the advancement of social media, aggrieved individuals are easily influenced and mobilized by rabble-rousers and hate-mongers. Consequently, public opinions could become biased, nationalistic, and somewhat xenophobic, which could lead to international conflict and extremism. Therefore, political parties that want to reduce such tension should focus on public bias, lend their voice to minorities, and reinforce international cooperation.

First, political parties should broaden their perspectives to consider inter-country relations during discussions about international conflicts. If political parties lead the public to pursue only national interests, conflicts can be exacerbated. To ease tension and pursue the long-term benefits of peace, diverse sides should be heard. Furthermore, political parties should exert effort to represent minority groups instead of simply reflecting dominant public opinions. When the voices of racial, ethnic, and religious minorities cease to be heard, these individuals may become extreme inside or beyond the border.

Second, politically motivated disinformation, which is commonly called ˉfake news,ˉ needs to be addressed. With the IT revolution, fake news can be widely distributed at unprecedented speeds through social media. With a few clicks, people can read false information and sow seeds of grievance toward their political leaders and the government. In Korea, some sensational news stories, fake and otherwise, often attract over a hundred thousand clicks in merely half a day. With such explosive influence, fake news can mislead a population to discontent with its government and eventually lead to social disorder. Particularly, fake news often amplifies public anxiety toward foreigners and minority groups, thus often leading to international conflicts. An alienated and aggrieved minority group would seek other places and become a target whom ISIS entices to joining their terrorist camp.

Nevertheless, political leaders should be careful not to label fake news indiscriminately. In some countries, political leaders often denounce some news articles as fake news merely because the news opposes their political orientation or policies. Therefore, fake news should be restricted only if it is incompatible with international standards. Otherwise, government or political parties should not attempt to infringe on the right to free expression. Therefore, restricting fake news should be very careful not to muzzle free press. Currently, tackling on fake news needs to more time to discuss.

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Most importantly, international cooperation between political parties would contribute to reducing international conflicts and extremism. These concerns, regardless of whether they are religious, historical, or territorial by nature, are not limited to one or two countries. They are regional or global issues that involve more than two nations, which are often aggravated by the complex networks of national interests. Particularly, when governmental dialogues cannot be accomplished easily, political parties can meet their counterparts and attempt to reduce tension. In dealing with human rights violations and fake news, political parties may cooperate to appeal to the global society to take actions or develop international standards. Furthermore, terrorist groups such as ISIS have global networks. Having lost ground in the Middle East, they are beginning to move their headquarters to other regions. Countering their terrorist activities requires global anti-terrorism networks in which international cooperation between political parties would assume an important role.

It is not easy to reduce international tension because of the complicated networks of national interests. However, political parties could add support to resolve international conflicts and uproot global terrorism by listening to minorities, muting fake news, and helping each other.

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Hon. Huy Vannak, Vice Chairperson of the ICAPP Media Forum and President of CPP-Union of Journalists Federation of Cambodia

Honorable Founding Chairman! Chairman of the ICAPP Standing Committee, Excellency Secretary General of the ICAPP, Excellency Deputy Secretary General of the United Russia Party,

Good afternoon distinguished delegates, Ladies and Gentlemen,

It is my deep satisfaction to attend the 4th ICAPP Media Forum in my capacity as a vice-chairman of the forum. I am happy to be here in this wonderful city of Moscow, a historic place of strength and resilience. I would like to recall that many of my senior Cambodian friends came to pursue higher education in this city in the 1980s. They are now playing very important and senior roles in helping to build our modern and beautiful Cambodia. I would like to take this opportunity to express our gratitude to the ICAPP delegations who always take part actively as international observers on democratic elections in Cambodia.

Excellency, Ladies and Gentlemen!

Today, I am happy to share with you some critical views on the topic of “the Importance of International inter-party cooperation in the formation and development of political party in formation and development of political, economic and social ties between states” with the media playing a key role. I applause that our ICAPP media forum is indeed perfectly positioned to fill that role by creating frequent and regular meetings between media groupings across Asian countries and beyond.

We all must uphold the ideal that “Free media is a cornerstone of a healthy democracy.” The role of the media is vital as it can influence the policies of the incumbent and future governments as well as the activities of civil society in making efforts to build an Asian community and beyond.

We acknowledge that we are currently living in a globalized world where everything, particularly information, is interconnected and yet friction is abundant. Asia is characterized by its diversity in terms of ethnicity race, religion and national group and level of economic development. Asian countries are also different in level of democratic experience. We must all respect that. At the same time, we shall continue to create a conducive environment for peace, coexistence, stability and prosperity in the region.

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Therefore, today, I would like to take this opportunity to appeal to all modern political parties to oppose isolationism, exclusionism and protectionism because these are dangerous. I would also like to appeal to all political parties to observe key international conventions on free press and other protocols for the protection of media professionals and to allow for their broad freedom in carrying out their jobs.

My appeal is also that we need to avoid the proliferation of malicious fake news in our world where social media is taking center stage and citizen journalism is advancing. The main duty of the media is to promote positive thinking, tolerance, harmony, and prosperity in order to ensure peace and stability through accuracy and professionalism, speaking truth to power is important and indispensable ingredient of the media’s role in the 21st Century.

Before I close my remark, I would like to recall my statement in the 3rd Media Forum in Seoul of Korea that there is indeed a “war of perception in the age of fake news,” “data dredging”, “the cyber war”. They are playing central roles and used as tools in creating political tensions which is so dangerous to current world order. Therefore, I would like to take this opportunity again to urge ICAPP to continue to build a platform and mechanisms for all political parties to work against fake news and promote the “Value of True Voice in Our World”. Thank you for your kind attention.

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Ms. Merve Sebnem, Vice-Chairperson of the ICAPP Media Forum and Journalist of Daily Sabah, Turkey

Ladies and Gentlemen, dear distinguished guests,

I have a bad news. Today, our world is suffering. We are suffering lack of trust. People are feeling troubled and insecure. They feel they are not safe. They are losing their faith, their trust. Within countries, people are losing faith in the governments, the states, and political establishments. Polarization is huge and populism is on the rise. Among countries, cooperation is decreasing and getting more difficult. People are also about to lose trust in global governance.

The trust is lost when the truth dies. And you know, the first casualty of war is the truth. As there is a big debate about fake news and post-truth era all around the world these days, we have to be very careful about what’s coming next.

We have just seen a fragment of the horrible destruction of the World War II when we visited the Central Museum of the Great Patriotic War today. Ever since the end of the last world war, we apparently achieved to avoid a third world war but we are still not able to bring peace most of the troubled lands. And most of those lands are in the continent we live in.

Today, not only the Middle East, or other regions in Asia, but also the world is in chaos. In fact, the current world order is chaotic. The world is more connected thanks to Internet, mobile phones and social media, and yet societies are becoming more fragmented. We are moving to a direction of a multipolar world, which we have to be celebrating; however, at the same time, we are losing multilateralism when we need it most.

I for myself, as a journalist, harshly criticized the politicians and my colleagues in the West for a long time. They have been talking about democracy, human rights and freedom of speech. They say that these are the basic principles and the universal values. But what they said and what they did have been quite different so far. Their understanding of democracy has been favoring some privileged people. Their way of caring about human rights has been hypocritical. And the freedom of press has been an illusion as their media has been controlled by business moguls, billionaires, etc…

We have all criticized these contradictions, inconsistencies and self-seeking narratives. And yet, what have we offered until now?

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We are all aware of that people are losing their faith and hope for democracy, everywhere. Is this only the Westerners’ fault? And we know that people who are in need for protection and help is more than ever since World War II. Is it just because of the Americans?

And today, journalists all around the world are in danger as never before. According to statistics, the last two years has been the most deadly and dangerous period for journalists in recent history. Almost 150 journalists were killed during this period, let alone the ones who have been abducted, kidnapped or jailed. It’s not about freedom of speech, freedom of press anymore; it’s about our lives.

Three weeks ago, on Oct 2., 2018, a Saudi journalist was horrifically murdered by his own people in the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul. It was a brutal, monstrous and premeditated murder. I will avoid the shocking and thrilling details of this crime, but as initial findings show, they planned everything to get away with this murder. Well, they couldn’t…

It took days for the Saudi authorities to give permission the Turkish police to search the Consulate where they killed Khashoggi and the Consul General’s residence where they got rid of his dismembered body parts. Those places are under diplomatic immunity. After days of denial, they finally admitted that the Saudi journalist was killed inside the Consulate putting the blame on some ‘rogue elements’.

Is this the new way to kill journalists and get away with murder now? Is this the new way of getting rid of the critics? Is this the world we want to live in?

Surely, it is not. Surely, I do not want. I wasn’t completely aware of that fact until recently: A country cannot be free unless its journalists are. And our people will not feel safe and secure, they will not regain their trust, we build frankly, genuinely, completely free ground for our journalists. I think, for once, we have to stop complaining, blaming others and take a look at ourselves. We have to self-criticize. Because, what our people deserve is better than this. We can do better than this.

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Hon. Park Jae-ho, Member of the National Assembly, The Minjoo Party, Republic of Korea

Ladies and gentlemen, my name is Park Jae-ho. I am a member of the Democratic Party of the Republic of Korea. It is my honor to attend this highly significant event of ICAPP in Russia and have the opportunity to address such a distinguished audience today.

As you are well aware, the sheer power of ordinary people helped usher in a new era for the Republic of Korea. On the long, arduous journey of the Candlelight Revolution, the role played by social media, instead of mass media, was simply extraordinary. Now, not only the Republic of Korea but also the whole world are committed to creating an unprecedented age of media politics.

Politics and media are interdependent. Amongst them, media is a vital tool for people, which is indispensable for the advancement of state politics. While media had previously been used as a tool by politicians, it is now increasingly empowering the general public.

These days, politicians choose to appeal to voters on social media, instead of canvassing every street corner as they had previously.

Of course, social media is not without its shortcomings, such as its susceptibility to fake news. However, the role of social media has grown so rapidly that elected officials should continue to take note of what is going on across a wide range of social media platforms. Politics is no longer revered: it is woven into the fabric of everyday life.

Political behaviors have become a part of the wider culture. For example, people take photos of themselves in front of polling stations, and even participate in election campaigns, which blurs the line between politics and everyday life.

The pros of media politics are that it helps to focus politicians and political parties on their mid-to long-term objectives in a consistent fashion. However, the cons are it may encourage politicians to concentrate on spontaneous, trivial events to seek attention.

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Honorable guests!

Media is making politics much more accessible for all of us. Although politics may have previously sounded like rocket science, media has done an excellent job of embedding politics into our daily lives.

I hope to talk about the growth of new media politics and the people’s media, and listen to your diverse opinions. Moreover, politics and media are critical tools in uniting the world into one and spreading peace and growth across the globe.

Inevitably, politics goes hand in hand with the advancement of media. Younger generations and the byproducts of the 4th Industrial Revolution are inescapably connected to politics and media. We need to talk about the inexorable growth of the power of ordinary people, who can publish their own content at will, engage in political debates and act on their own accord.

Sometimes, we may see them divided and quarreling with each other, but this is a process we need to go through in the course of political development. Yet, I am sure about one thing: at the end of the day, social media will help restore values that prioritize people, and enhance the responsiveness of parties and the government, which will pave the way for the development of democracy.

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Mr. Lucky Ali Moerfiqin, International Relations Department, Golkar Party, Indonesia

Mr. Chairman, ladies and gentlemen,

I would like to convey a point a view regarding the role of media in political education, economy, and social relations between countries with the following topic:

Currently, media plays a very important role on delivering news and information to the society in a country, even to people across countries. An event that happens in one country can be broadcasted all around the world so that it can be known by all of the people in the world, as if there is no border between the countries.

Other than conventional media like newspaper, radio, and television, nowadays, the rapidly growing social media can be seen directly on smartphone, currently “news from around the world is in human’s hand”, its so easy and cheap that almost all people have smart phone, even in Indonesia, almost everyone has two smart phones.

On 2016, Indonesia ranks 4th on the number of smart phone users, which is 66,4 million users, after China, America, and India. Whereas, Indonesia ranks 1st based on the amount of time spent on smart phone usage, which is 181 minutes a day. Smart phone becomes the basic needs of human in monitoring the news in economy, politics, social, cultures, and defense and security

Media plays an important role to improve democratization in a country. Countries started to encourage people to actively participate on elections, giving profile of the president and vice-president candidates and/or senate or legislator to be selected, and also monitoring the result so the elections will be clear and transparent. Moreover, media also helps to monitor the government performance. If the government is not functioning optimally or there is an irregularity such as corruption, it is media’s role to deliver that to society.

Political and security stability is very important to bolster the economic development in a country. It is impossible that economy will be growing if a country has a security disturbance such as terrorism or extremism acts and an unstable relationship between the executive, legislative, and judicial. Media can be a communication bridge between those party so that a harmonious relationship is created and the government wheel can run well in the right direction.

Political education should be given as early as possible to the society, particularly the young generation, so that they can understand and can participate in successing a country

165 Speeches by the Participants of the 4th Meeting of the Media Forum political agenda. Besides formal education, media also plays an important role on deliver a material about political education in their own language or style that would fit a specific group. For example, for young generations, it needs a simple and easy explanations that is easy for them to understand.

The current economic condition is experiencing uncertainty and imbalance, so it requires a careful act from government in managing their finances. The trade war between the United States and China will certainly have impact to another country, so it will need to be addressed wisely and still paying attention and strengthen the economic foundation of each country.

The IMF – World Bank Annual Meeting in Bali, Indonesia on October 2018, become a place to exchange ideas for the economic policy maker around the world. The policy adjustment between the countries becomes certain in facing the risk of global economic crisis. Indonesia’s Minister of Finance convey that the financial crisis becomes more complex from time to time. The monetary and fiscal subjects become the main focus for the stakeholders.

Bank Indonesia (BI) with all central bank from some countries in Southeast Asia agreed on strengthening cooperation to utilize the potential of digital finance for the inclusive economic growth. The agreement came up on the high-level policy dialogue session on regional cooperation to support innovation, inclusion and stability in Asia initiated by Bank Indonesia, the Asian Development Bank (ADB) and the ASEAN macroeconomic research office.

Media can play a role to socialize the result of the IMF – World Bank Annual Meeting to the socirty about the economic crisis that will engulf the world and to give certainty to the business world to prepare if the economic crisis happens.

The socio-culture development of a country will always change according to current trends. With an easy access by to all the countries with a cheap price, it promotes the socio- culture of one country to another. There is almost none area that is hard to reach, especially if there is a tourist attraction that will attract tourist to come to that country.

A social condition of one country is affected with the country economic level. The higher the economic level then the higher the better the social condition, so that the country can be more developed. With the better social condition then the more people needs a vacation after a long time working. Vacation nowadays is like a human basic need, so in a year a person will probably take a vacation, either domestically or abroad.

The media can play its role on socio-culture such as to inform the interesting tourist attraction in a country, so that people have choices for their vacation. Tourism is currently a

166 Speeches by the Participants of the 4th Meeting of the Media Forum large foreign exchange contributor considering that each tourist will incur substantial costs in a tour. The economy will spin on hospitality, transportation, restaurant, and other businesses that can improve on economy and social area. Thus conclude the elaboration from our perspective hope it will benefit all of us, Thank you.

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Ms. Meryem Göka, Co-Chairwoman of the ICAPP Women's Wing and Deputy Chairwoman of Foreign Affairs of the AK Party of Turkey

Ladies and Gentlemen,

First I would like to thank to our host “United Russia Party” and the ICAPP for this excellent organization. t is a great pleasure and honor to be here in Moscow together with friends. Before starting my presentation, on behalf of the Turkish Delegation, I want to convey the greetings of H.E. President Recep Tayyip Erdoan, the President of the Turkish Republic. For you, I would like draw a picture of our global world. On one side, we can see we are on the verge of the “Industrial Revolution” 4.0, a digital revolution “Artificial Intelligence” is already part of our lives. On the other side, people try to escape conflict, poverty, food insecurity, persecution, terrorism, human rights violation and abuses.

One of the worst humanitarian crises since World War II is the Syrian civil war. More than half a million innocent people have died, 65 million are forcibly displaced persons, including 21 million refugees, 3 million asylum seekers and 40 mil internally displaced persons. After witnessing the tragedy and genocide in Srebrenitsa, we now witness the tragedy of Rohingya and suffering of people of Palestine, and many other places. Turkey is the largest donor of humanitarian aid in the world. Turkey responds to any cry for help no matter where it comes from and regardless of religion, language or race. Turkey and Russia initiation in dlib is very important for world politics, represents a step toward establishing peace and preventing a humanitarian nightmare. The world needs a revolution. We need to make a “conscience revolution” that will pick humanity up from where it has fallen down.

International organizations like ICAPP, COPPAL and CAPP, political parties and non-governmental organizations should come together around the alarming problems. It is very timely to discuss “the role of interparty cooperation in formation and development of political, economic and social ties between states.” Because it comes at a time when restoring confidence in cooperation seems to be most urgently needed. The Millennium Declaration and the 8 MDGs collectively build a vision for a more just and equal world. Women have multiple roles. At any given times they can be mothers, leaders, students, decision makers, farmer, workers and much more. In each of these roles the ability to be educated, to have a voice and influence and to enjoy opportunities and choices are critical to the attainment of the goals.

Gender equality and women’s empowerment are central to achieving the MDGs because without these capabilities and opportunities women are less able to reach their full potential, live a life of dignity and be productive citizens. Platforms like the ICAPP help us achieve the MDG’s and Interparty relations and experience exchange enrich our society.

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Gender equality helps accelerate achievement of each goal; In addition, progress in gender equality in one goal often contributes simultaneously towards progress on a number of other development goals. For example, gender equality in education also makes significant contributions to a nation’s economic growth and poverty reduction as well as to reduced malnutrition, fertility and child mortality. The power of education is prerequisite for promoting gender equality. Through education, girls living in poverty can break the chains that keep them poor and thus grow with a lifting education and with real opportunities to form new generation.

As president Recep Tayyip ERDOAN always emphasizes that strong women means strong family and strong family means strong society. Generations that will no longer be part of the barriers that we are seeking do remove. This is a turning point for true social transformation.

We shall be looking at the impact of globalization on the condition and rights of women, as well as their participation in social transformations through their roles in democratic and peace building processes. Involving women in areas that have a high political profile such as peace and confit resolution can bring positive change, not only in terms of gender equality but her societies as a whole. Indeed, the world’s progress is slowed when half of the world’s population is lagging behind. It takes early a four committed individuals to change the world, indeed, it’s the only way the world has ever really changed.

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Hon. Run Sovanntevy, Under Secretary of State of the Ministry of Women's Affairs, Cambodia

Dear Mr./Madame Chairman/Chairperson, Ladies and Gentlemen,

On behalf of the women of Cambodian People’s Party (CPP), the ruling party that is in the Royal Government of Cambodia (RGC) I would like to express my sincere gratitude to ICAPP’s Members of Standing Committee and the organizers (United Russia Party) of the 10th General Assembly for your kind invitation, professional arrangement and good organization of this important meeting. My appreciation and acknowledgement to ICAPP’s Women’s Wing and its member for the excellent work done so far and for the successful organization of the 5th meeting of the ICAPP Women’s Wing that we are having here today.

We are well aware that we are still living in a world where extremist, violence and conflict as well as the climate change have always been presented as a grave concern. But this does not mean that it is something impossible to overcome. In this context, I strongly believe that political, economic, and social cooperation between inter-parties and states, and the commitment to strengthen the implementation of and to achieve the ICAPP goals is essentially prerequisite.

The role of women, including women from political parties, has been instrument for sustaining peace over the world. In order to add a meaningful perspective at the meeting here today, I would like to highlight the important role of women in Cambodia in formation and development in political, economic and social ties between states and to demonstrate that gender equality is a contributing factor for longstanding peace and prosperity.

Ladies and Gentlemen,

Learning tragic experiences from the decades of war and genocide in the past, Cambodia under the leadership of Cambodian People’s Party (CPP), the ruling party of the country has laid out the National Development Strategies and policies in line with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) toward 2030. In this regard to achieve these goals, the Royal Government of Cambodia (RGC) has been strongly determined and committed to execute the plans by all possible means. Obviously in principle, CPP considers women’s participation as a backbone and play a key role in all decision makings. Gender equality in all activities of economy has also been strengthened. Women have been being empowered and integrated into many fields such as economic, social, tourism, education, environment, culture and the development of the country.

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With regard to culture, we are relatively pleased to learn that ICAPP in recent meeting last year decided to set up Asian Cultural Council (ACC) and endorsed by the president of Cambodian People’s Party (CPP) as Founding Chairman of the ACC. So, I believe that the ACC will be an efficient instrument to bring people from all countries to unite and share experiences as well as culture of peace and social living harmony in order to effectively cooperate for mutual understanding and benefit for their respective countries.

In all possible effort to fulfill our commitment to fostering better relationship between its members and aiming to assist its member countries to achieve Sustainable Development Goals, Cambodia will start implementing its program to realize SDGs in 100 villages across the country and will share its experiences and lessons learnt with the ACC members at three main areas on cultural preservation, creating industry, and tourism promotion programs.

Cambodia is one of the well-known culture countries in the world; our Angkor Wat temples have attracted millions of tourists to visit our country. In this connection, we express our profound thank to the international communities for their moral and material support in rebuilding and preserving our culture, particularly UNESCO who always plays an important role in promoting the culture of our country and decided to register Angkor Wat, Preah Vihear, and Prasat Sombo Prey Kouk as the world heritages. We also would like to take this opportunity to express our deepest thanks and gratitude to Federation of Russia for its readiness to repair and restore a number of Cambodia’s temples. Thank you very much!

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Ms. Emmalia Natar Nasution, International Relations Department, Golkar Party, Indonesia

Good afternoon,

First of all allow me to take this opportunity to extend my sincere appreciation to our gracious host as well as to the United Russia Party for their warm welcome and magnificent hospitality that have been accorded to our delegates since our arrival at this remarkable city of Moscow and also to the ICAPP and Women’s Wing of the ICAPP.

Excellency, Distinguished Ladies and Guests,

Violence-based extremism is the entry point for terrorism crimes.For this reason a comprehensive approach must be carried out, including: Prevention, preparedness, counter radicalization and protection, deradicalization, law enforcement, partnership and international cooperation. Prevention of violence-based extremism that leads to terrorism cannot only be done by state officials, the participation of civilians including families, in this case a mother and a woman, is very important.

Women are always portrayed as figures who represent tenderness, love and affection. And they are also often described as a flower and moon. In the Chinese Proverb that proclaimed by Mao Zedong: Women hold up half the sky… In the story it is often told that, no matter how strong, heroism and masculinity can be defeated by women's tenderness. Disputes and empirical wars in the past also often caused solely because of the charm of women including the history of Ken Arok and Ken Dedes in Indonesia. That’s fact. From this, it is clear that women play an important role in reducing extremism and radicalism.

Excellency, Distinguished Ladies,

Based on the projected growth of the population from the National Development Planning Agency, the Central Statistics Agency and the United Nations Population Fund, the population of Indonesia in 2018 is 265 million. A total of 131.88 million of them are female. This is a large number that needs to be managed properly. Speaking of negotiation and the ability to influence people, negotiations conducted by women are sometimes more effective than those done by men. Women are known to be more tenacious in conveying their will and bargaining as when shopping for fish in traditional markets.

In combating radicalism, the role of the family is very important. Therefore, as parents, it is very necessary to communicate intensely about our children's activities. Here are some of the roles of women, mothers and families in fighting extremism:

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1. Strengthening family structure 2. Being a source of affection, love and attention for our children 3. Reviving conventional playing patterns for children 4. Strengthening the educational structure and providing religious education that is right and not related to any radical ideologies that lead to terrorism.

Distinguished Ladies,

Political parties and politicians must stop using religious sentiments in practical political battles. Using religious sentiments for power struggles 5 years is an irresponsible action that can ruin the survival of a nation. Finally, with the Indonesian House of Representatives officially ratifying the Antiterrorism Law on May 25th 2018, hopefully this could be a legal aid and shelter for the prevention of radicalism in Indonesia. With this spirit, we invite and encourage all political parties in this a round earth to work together to build and Creating Peace.

I thank you.

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Hon. Suos Yara, Deputy Chairman of the ICAPP Youth Wing, Member of Parliamentary and Vice- Chairman of Commission on Foreign Affairs, International Cooperation, Information and Media, Cambodian People’s Party, Cambodia

I am pleased that we gather here today in the wonderful city of Moscow to discuss two important topics of pressing concerns for Asia but not exclusively. They are also topics of concerns for the uncertain and volatile world that we all live in. Today’s world is challenged by a reversion to conflicts and wars. We have observed a treacherous drift toward protectionism and isolationism. We have seen the frequent and reckless use of populism to gain political advantage. We have witnessed the rise of racism and xenophobia with negligence toward the poor and the needy as well as pressing humanitarian crises. The huge consumption of fossil fuels and insatiable appetite for energy have put our whole planet on the precipice of global disaster. Disenfranchisements are some the root causes international tensions and extremism.

As human beings arriving at this stage of civilization, development and consciousness, we must not be quiet. We all must help each other to overcome obstacles and reach personal and social potentials within our own respective communities and nations. Youth plays important role in such endeavors which should contain multifaceted strategies to tackle tensions and extremisms as well as address some of the root causes of global problems.

When we talk about youth we are talking about instilling and inculcating a sense of peaceful coexistence, a love for the globe, tolerance and mutual respects on our population at a younger age. Such early response is vital in the prevention aspect rather than the resolution. Remember prevention is better than cure. Political parties must encourage as well as assist youth in collaboration between states involving youth-led and youth-implemented activities with structured and sustainable participation. Such activities should allow them to learn to resolve key issues with Cambodian People’s Party Central Committee Independence, Peace, Freedom, Democracy Neutrality and Social Progress 2 regards to conflicts, fundamentalism and extremism at the causal and resulting stages of conflicts. The activities should be in line with World Programme of Action for Youth and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development Goals.

Tensions and extremism are two key byproducts of discrimination and prejudices against people at younger ages especially youth who grow up seeing a distorted world of unfairness, disrespect, exploitation and abuses. Political parties must take actions to address

179 Speeches by the Participants of the 4th Meeting of the ICAPP Youth Wing early exposure to such negativities including eliminating all forms of discrimination against young people, promote equal opportunities for racial, ethnical, religious and national groups and finally put an end to current occurrence of intolerance against fellow human beings.

At their development stage, youths deserve nurture rather than abuse and belong at educational institution. Political parties must ensure equal education for all youths from various social groupings, prevent drug abuses and creating shelters for victims of drug addiction. By ensuring minimal education is met for youth, we are all better off in our attempt to quell conflicts and extremism in our world. The next step would be ensuring our youth resources are well used by creating meaningful voluntary, sometimes paid, opportunities for youth to participate and to learn through the jobs involving social works.

The success of our youth in education, work and life depend heavily on political parties to address problems at the root causes, provide adequate opportunities to youth and remain patient in their slow, gradual, sometimes frustrating development. In Cambodia there is an old saying that “bamboo shoot inherits the bamboo.” When the shoot does not grow well the future is bleak.

Thank you for your attention.

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Hon. Ha Tae-keung, Member of the National Assembly, Republic of Korea

“For the Adoption of a Joint Declaration on the Reduction of Voting & Electioneering Age”

Ladies and gentlemen,

My name is Ha Tae Kyung. I am a member of the Bareun Mirae Party of the Republic of Korea.

It is my honor and privilege to address you in this forum, organized by the ICAPP Parliamentarians' Union.

I understand that the overarching theme of this forum is “youth.” In light of this, I would like to introduce you to a few legislative initiatives associated with youth suffrage, which were recently proposed by myself in Korea.

In fact, I have put forth three bills in total: The first bill aims at reducing the voting age to 18 from the current 19. It is my knowledge that 216 out of 234 countries around the world allow 18-year-olds to vote, so I guess many of you here are representing countries with a legal voting age of 18.

The second bill seeks to lower the age for electoral eligibility to 18, so that even 18-year-olds can run for the presidency or parliament. At present, only Korean nationals aged 40 or above are eligible for election to the presidency, while only those aged 25 or above are eligible to be elected to parliament.

The third bill focuses on reducing the age requirement for election campaigning to 14 so that even high school students can participate in and even run election campaigns.

The three bills were proposed to broaden the suffrage base in tandem with recent trends.

The gradual increase in the level of education, advances in Internet and information media, and democratic maturity have led to a considerable enhancement in political literacy and awareness of the general public.

Sensitive to societal changes, teenagers are already experiencing and even making use of democracy at school and in their everyday lives. Thus, it is fair to say that young people are mature and capable enough to revel in the freedom of political speech.

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In particular, I am proposing a sharp drop in the electioneering age, because political engagement by youth, which can take the form of volunteering for elections or encouraging citizens to vote, can have educational benefits, for example, by embedding the basic tenets of democracy within the adolescent narrative.

Developed countries including the US and Germany do not have an age limit on electioneering, so minors can participate in civil discourse without restriction.

I believe that global democracy will be able to take one step further in the right direction if not only the Republic of Korea but other Asian countries join the global movement to empower politically underrepresented minors.

If you agree with me, I wish to propose the adoption of a joint resolution on lowering the voting age right here, right now.

Thank you for listening.

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Hon. Oh Jae-sae, Member of the National Assembly, Republic of Korea

“Youth represents the future of a country. We must make a concerted effort to resolve youth unemployment and poverty.”

Greetings, distinguished guests!

My name is Oh Jae-sae, and I am a Member of the National Assembly of the Republic of Korea and of the Democratic Party of Korea. It is an honor for me to speak to you about youth at this forum hosted by the ICAPP Parliamentarians' Union. I would like to thank President Park Young-sun of the Union and all of those involved for giving me this precious opportunity to be here today.

I would like to address the issue of youth unemployment that has significant consequences in most countries around the world.

According to a report released by the ILO, the number of unemployed youth around the globe stood at 70.9 million in 2017, while the youth unemployment rate rose to 13.1 percent in the same year, a 0.1 percentage-point increase from the previous year. Taking into consideration that the world economy is currently improving, the youth unemployment crisis can be said to have worsened.

Over the course of the two decades from 1997 to 2017, the share of youth in the entire labor force has declined by 6.2 percentage-points from 21.7 percent to 15.5 percent, while the share of youth among the unemployed has risen to 35 percent. In most countries, the youth unemployment rate exceeds the total unemployment rate, which is 5.6 percent.

What is even more serious is the quality of jobs for youth. Three out of every four young people are part-time workers, and most of them are working in informal sectors. Young people, who are supposed to be the most economically active, are plagued with low wages and job insecurity.

The issues faced by the young generations are what determine the future path of a country.

Ass for Korea, the youth unemployment rate last year increased to 9.8 percent, while the total fertility rate decreased to 1.05. The nation's youth employment rate is lower than the 2017 OECD average of 53.2 percent by 10 percent. Job insecurity and housing instability are

183 Speeches by the Participants of the 4th Meeting of the ICAPP Youth Wing driving young people to give up on their dreams, relationships, and desires to start families of their own, leading to the declining fertility rate.

One of the major reasons for Korea's high youth unemployment rate is because young people avoid taking jobs at small and mid-sized companies due to low wages and poor working conditions.

As such, the Moon Jae-in administration has pushed ahead with a variety of policies regarding youth employment since its launch.

The administration is working hard to come up with long-term, permanent solutions for related fundamental problems, such as the improvement of education and training, the narrowing of the gap between large and small corporations, and the achievement of innovative growth, in the long term. It is implementing special, limited-time measures as well, such as the increase in the mandatory quotas for youth recruitment at public organizations, the provision of incentives for SMEs for recruiting young job-seekers, the promotion of the Future Youth Savings Account for asset-building among the youth, and the expansion of the Youth Employment Promotion Benefits for easing the difficulties of young people in between jobs.

The Youth Recruitment Encouragement Grant is a youth recruitment promotion program, through which up to roughly 8,000 dollars is given according to the scale of individual SMEs when newly recruiting one or two young job-seekers. As many as 50,000 young job-seekers have benefited from this program as of August 2018. The government has allocated a budget of 300 million dollars with an aim is to raise this number to 90,000 by the end of this year.

The Future Youth Savings Account is designed to encourage youth work longer at SMEs. This program deducts a total of about 5,000 dollars from the salary of a young employee of an SME over the course of three years, to which roughly 20,000 dollars is added by the government, providing the young employee the chance to ultimately create an asset of about 25,000 dollars. The Korean government has allocated a budget of 370 million dollars and supported 80,000 young employees of SMEs this year.

The Youth Employment Promotion Benefits program is designed to offer roughly 440 dollars per month for six months to those young people who are preparing to find employment. This program aims to ease their economic difficulties while they are in between jobs.

As a result, Korea is gradually witnessing positive momentum. The youth unemployment rate, which reached 9.8 percent last year, is now down to 8.8 percent, and the number of quality jobs for young people is steadily increasing.

It is critical to resolve youth unemployment and poverty to ensure sustainable growth, social stability, and solidarity. I propose that you all take strong action for the implementation of

184 Speeches by the Participants of the 4th Meeting of the ICAPP Youth Wing policies aimed at resolving these two issues for a brighter future of your countries and the world.

Our future lies in our youth. We must remember that our young people must stand firm first in order for our countries to stand firm.

Thank you for listening.

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Ms. Chandra Kusuma Dewi, Department of Institutional Relation, Indonesia

Honorable Chairman, Distinguished Delegates, Ladies and Gentlemen,

It is a great pleasure to be here with you today at this 4th Meeting of the ICAPP Youth Wing. And I would like to express my gratitude to United Russia Party for your warm hospitality in the wonderful city of Moscow. Indonesia is home to young people that make 55 percent of the population. Therefore, the participation of young people in all state-related processes is crucial, including the political processes. As the oldest party in Indonesia and one of the largest in Indonesia, Golkar Party pays serious attention to youth, especially in the present era which is full of international tension Golkar Party has produced a blueprint known as "Vision Indonesia 2045: A Prosperous Nation" with the aim of making Indonesia a nation developed by independence in 2045. The plan comprises three stages each lasting a decade.

The key strategies in the vision comprise developing Indonesia from the villages, strengthening the role of the state, quality economic growth, equalizing income, ensuring even development in all areas, quality education and healthcare, strengthening communities, sustained economic development, upholding the law and human rights, industrial development based on technology and revitalization of agriculture and trade.

The first decade would lay the foundations for a developed nation, the second would accelerate development and the final decade would see Indonesia become a developed nation. Each stage would have targets for economic growth, GDP, and levels of unemployment and poverty. In realizing the vision, we believe that young people have great power to make it happen. We certainly still need the help of those who are senior, but only as guidance. Therefore, almost 70 percent of Golkar’s legislator candidates for the 2019 election are young people.

We also demonstrate our commitment to the activities of providing a broad opportunity for young cadres to hold government or public positions. At present, many regional heads from the Golkar Party are young people. We have seen that these young leaders have always come up with fresh ideas and solutions when challenges present. For example, some have developed websites and apps for enabling wider political participation regarding the fact that internet and smartphones are quite accessible nowadays in Indonesia. In addition, we also provide ample space for the participation of young people in parties in the AMPG or the Golkar Party Youth Wing. This organization accommodates young cadres from various kinds of community organizations affiliated to Golkar Party.

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Ladies and Gentlemen,

Speaking of youth, the Golkar Party is committed to empowerment youth. We are very concerned about the sustainability of the party and also the Indonesian nation, so we hold various training programs and other activities related to strengthening democracy and international relations.

In connection with the current era where there are many international tensions, of course we all regret that. We consider that these tensions happen due to inequalities in many aspects. However, we believe they can actually be overcome by actions to realize equal accesses in many aspects including economic and political access.

Because of the imbalance, injustice arises which causes one group to clash with another group. Unfortunately, in some cases, this international tension directs youth to extremism. These tensions cause us to forget the opportunity to dialogue and share, and understand each other.

At this time, we see all kinds of war that is armed like civil-military war and ISIS, and not armed like the trade war. Admittedly, those wars caused any dialogue to stall. Then, communities lose trust and suspects each other and then there comes extremism. Unfortunately, extremism spreads to our youth.

As the engine of a country's government, political parties have a big role in overcoming the problem. We as a youth wing have carried out a number of programs or activities related to handling this extremism as well as education that useless tensions must be avoided. From our various programs and activities, we try to formulate some general recommendations that we can discuss in this respectable forum, namely: 1. Active in opening communication and dialogue between stakeholders both regionally and internationally 2. Preventing extremism and social tension through education, training and advocacy 3. Real participation and cooperation at regional and international levels, for example in economics, education, culture etc. 4. Extensive use of media and information literacy, especially social media, interactive media and other digital technology

Indonesia is a unity-in-diversity country that upholds global peace. What is essential from all is that we together are committed to bring peace for this world. We appreciate and support the Regional or International partnerships with other organizations, such as COPPAL/CAPP, UNESCO, UN etc. We hope to be active in those partnerships in the future.

Thank you for your attention.

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Ms. Dr. Samia Raheel Qazi, Secretary to Director of Foreign Affairs, Member of Women’s Wing of the Jamaat-e- Islami (Islamic Party), Pakistan

The political parties of any country are its primary players in the political arena of the country and eventually form the governments which in turn make all the important policies including those to reduce extremism. They must get together and execute collaborative efforts to combat extremism and hostility which exists globally.

Form policies together and divide the roles they each need to play instead of exhausting their potentials. Work on their internal problems and on finding the root cause of why extremism and hostility exist. Once they have pointed out key issues, esp. those that exist in common, employ the help of qualified individuals whether from their own party/country and help construct policies and models that will overcome these.

Work on each country’s similar problems simultaneously to make sure the problems are completely eradicated. Political parties can act as middlemen even when they are not forming the majority of their respective governments because they can protest inefficient policies as oppositions. Mutual understanding and collaboration can save up many of the resources that if used individually would take up a lot of time and money.

Political parties are mostly made up of political workers, since there is unity in power, if the workers of these parties were to agree and collect their efforts on one issue, and if this sentiment can be reproduced globally, terrorism can be eliminated knowing that they have huge powers united against them, ready to overthrow them.

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Hon. Ramin Mammadov, Deputy Chairman of the New Azerbaijan Party Youth Union, Azerbaijan

Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen,

I am delighted to participate in this event, co-hosted by ICAPP and United Russia Party in Lovely Moscow, the capital of great Russia. Let me express my appreciation to the both organizations. I also want to acknowledge the participation of Javier Hurtado Mira, our esteemed partner, chairman of DEMYC with whom ICAPP Youth Wing recently in Baku, Azerbaijan established an immense platform of youth cooperation beyond the borders - Bridges.

Youth is a priority for the world. To make youth empowerment a reality, we have started challenging assumptions and rethinking the way in which we recognize, promote and support the positive role young people play in preventing violent extremism.

Some of the countries such as Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Nigeria and others, most affected by attacks often have high youth populations, who are then caught between the violence and encroachment of extremist groups and hard-fisted responses. Not only are young people commonly the victims of various forms of violence perpetrated by these groups, they are also victims of the collateral damages of the phenomenon, such as displacement and loss of livelihoods; psychological strain and trauma; and the spread of intolerance and intimidation in spaces of interaction and recreation. Many young people have indeed experienced harms from “hard edge” state responses to counter violent extremism, including surveillance, arrest, injury or death. If the object of policy and programming interventions is ultimately to find and support effective methods to prevent violent extremism while upholding human rights standards, it is imperative to understand and nurture youth positive resilience and youth-led activism. Young people, typically working with little support and in sometimes extremely challenging environments, have already taken up action using a full spectrum of approaches in addressing the root causes of violent extremism ---from online/offline advocacy campaigns to promoting the disengagement and reintegration of former fighters, to supporting education initiatives, to generating new research and data analysis

Our fundamental message is that effective and long-term prevention approaches require active support of and investment in young people’s holistic development priorities, their initiatives and their meaningful participation in governance and decision-making. For this to happen, all actors must deepen the forms of engagement with young people themselves, building on their insights, capacities and achievements, in line with United

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Nations Security Council resolutions 2250 (2015) and 2419 (2018) on youth, peace and security.

Contrary to common perception young people were not a problem, but rather powerful agents for resolving and preventing conflict throughout the world. Quarter of the world’s 1,8 bln people aged 18 to 29 lived in situations of violence. Young people must be key stakeholders in peace-building strategies and action plans. I wish you fruitful discussions and look forward to enhancing partnerships to promote the positive role of youth in preventing violent extremism. Thank you.

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Speeches by the Participants of the 3rd Trilateral Meeting among the ICAPP-COPPPAL-CAPP

Hon. Jose de Venecia, Jr., Founding Chairman and Chairman of the ICAPP Standing Committee

Good morning! Excellencies,

I wish to welcome Hon. Manolo Pichardo, President of the COPPPAL and Dr. Mohamed Yousif Abdullah, Assistant Secretary General of the CAPP, to the 10th General Assembly Meeting of the ICAPP in Moscow.

We are proud of the valuable roles that the three organizations have developed, considering that the ICAPP, launched in 2000, is an open forum for all political parties currently representing over 350 political parties in 52 countries in Asia. The COPPPAL, founded in 1979, is a prominent and influential multilateral political forum currently comprising over 60 political parties in 29 countries in Latin America and the Caribbean. The CAPP, established in 2013, is the main political forum endorsed by the African Union, now representing 58 political parties in 38 countries in Africa.

We reconfirm our commitment to the intent and spirit of the United Nations Charter for international peace and cooperation. We are also seeking to expand our cooperation and coordination among three continents, following the Jakarta Declaration on the first Trilateral Meeting held in Jakarta.

I sincerely wish to exchange frank views with our members of the ICAPP, COPPPAL and CAPP. I would like to ask, first, Secretary General Park Ro-byug to speak.

Thank you!

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Hon. Park Ro-byug, Secretary General of the ICAPP

Mr. Chairman, Excellencies, Distinguished Members of the ICAPP Standing Committee, President of the COPPPAL, Hon. Manolo Pichardo, Hon. Mohamed Yousif Abdallah from the CAPP,

I am very pleased to hold the Trilateral Meeting in Moscow today.

Since we have launched the Joint Sessions of Conferences with the COPPPAL since 2009, we have developed our good format of cooperation. Cooperation with the CAPP has been making progress since 2013. The first meeting of the Trilateral Cooperation was launched in Jakarta in 2016.

Last year, the Second Trilateral Meeting was held in Honduras, and the Tegucigalpa Statement was adopted. In the Statement, one important recommendation is adopted. It was recommended to create a monitoring mechanism among three parties, composed of two members from each party was recommended.

Therefore, first of all, it would be useful to listen to the concrete views of the COPPPAL and the CAPP at this meeting. We hope that members of the ICAPP may think about the proposal and explore how to address this issue.

Secondly, please review the draft statement for its adoption and give us your valuable comments at the end of the Trilateral Meeting.

Thank you for your kind attention.

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Hon. Prof. Hassan Ghafoori Fard, Founding President, Foundation for Islamic Development, Member of the Central Committee of Islamic Motalefeh Party, Former Vice President of Iran

Thank you Mr. Chairman! Excellency’s Honorable delegates! Distinguished Ladies and Gentlemen,

Good Morning! I first want to thank our distinguished chairman, founding chairman of ICAPP Excellency Jose De Venecia, Former speaker of the Philippine house of representative, I also like to thank our host the United Russia Party and Hon. Senator A.A. Klimov for very great performance. I want also to thank our hard working secretary general Ambassador Park Ro- byug.

I then want to mention some points about this meeting. First of all last year in Honduras on November 23, 2017 we referred in the statement of the second trilateral meeting and I code: “A creation of a commission to develop and monitor our cooperation”.

I think it is time to do that, and we might be already late for that. The main idea behind establishing such a commission was to address common challenges to our peace and economic cooperation.

Mr. Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen

You know peace and economy are two main subjects in the most countries in Asia, Africa and Latin America.

You all know what is going on right now in Yemen; people are starving to death by thousands and thousands. I do not want to put the blame on anybody or any country at this meeting, but we have to be concerned about the people- innocent people- children, women who are suffering, who are starving to death.

Syria is another example. Libya, Soudan even Afghanistan. They are all having big problems in the field of peace and economy.

The sanction which is put on some countries by The United States, is doing a lot of damage to innocent nonmilitary people. A lot countries having problems importing medical equipment and medicine, children, women and elderly people are suffering from this ungodly sanction.

The commission I mentioned can work to remedy this situation.

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We many push our government to implement some common projects to overcome the ungodly sanction. Just to give an example, the idea of China government and His Excellency President Xi Jinping to rebuilt Silk Road. Our Belt and Road initiative can be a very great project in the fields of economy, social affairs, cultural and even help peace and prosperity.

At the end, I want to say that Islamic Republic of Iran fully support this kind of cooperation and we are ready to pay our share in establishing the commission to develop and monitor our cooperation.

To expand the activity of the trilateral meetings, we may also think of some cultural, technical and political wings such as women, media, youth, cultural, technical … groups for trilateral cooperation.

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Excellences, Distinguished Participants

I would like to thank the governing United Russia Party for hosting the event and for the warm hospitality. We are here today because we share a belief. A belief that we can all work together to bring about positive changes to the world. We can do this because of the unique characteristics of our formation.

COPPPAL, CAPP and ICAPP are three very big blocs that bring to our common table the richness and diversities of each of our nation and culture. The very fact that all of us have come to this conference to look for ways to improve the way we live and work and trade is an achievement in itself. Now we have to look at how we can work together effectively to bring about optimum results for the goals that we are setting. For the results that we want to achieve.

We have to look at how we can channel our combined richness of knowledge and experience, and how to apply them to the issues that confront us. Not only do we have to consider the application of our individual efforts and resources as team players, but we will also have to come to an agreement on how we can best monitor these efforts. As you all know, the larger the team of contributors, the clearer the role of each contributor has to be. The clearer the role of teams within teams has to be.

As well as setting goals, we need to align our values, define parameters, and put in place guidelines and rules that we all can agree to observe and uphold. As representatives of political parties of our own individual nations, we represent the voices of the people who have placed us in this position so that we can look after their interests and speak for them. When the world was not connected as it is now, our representation was at a local level. Our voices were heard at a local level. And the constitutions that we represented were concerned with issues that affected their lives and livelihood at a local level.

Excellences, Distinguished Participants

Today it is very different. To do our job fully, we have to represent their voices at regional levels and at a global level. The people who have given us the responsibility to work for them, to be on the lookout for them, to represent them are affected more and more by decisions and policies being made outside of their homeland, and often without their knowledge or consent. So it falls upon us as their spokesmen and spokeswomen to ensure that the peoples who we represent get as fair and good a deal as possible.

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This is why we have to build a mechanism that will enable each of us to work and contribute more effectively towards the goals that we set. This mechanism will not only define our working culture and ethics, but it will also provide the measurements of our progress. Our huge diversity brings with it many challenges and rewards and enrichment. To move such a diverse group forward and in step with each other as we all work towards our goals is also a challenge in itself.

So we need this mechanism that can monitor our progress as we are all answerable to the peoples who have placed their trust in us, and also answerable to our working groups, and to our teams. In this way, we can monitor how effective our collaboration and our cooperation have been. In this way, we can best represent each of our own political parties by bringing local issues to regional and global forums, and looking at how challenges of a similar nature can be overcome. How similar hopes and aspirations of our peoples can be fulfilled.

We have come a long way in cultivating and nurturing political parties in Asia, America and Africa, with many different trajectories in different counties, characterized by both progress and setbacks. But overall ICAPP, CAPP and COPPPAL have been crucial in promoting representation in our respective societies for our respective citizenries. The more we cooperate, the more our countries can benefit from the overall empowerment.

Thank you very much.

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Hon. Manolo Pichardo, President of the COPPPAL

Good morning Excellencies,

In Buenos Aires, Argentina, from the political parties that make up our structures, we started a process of rapprochement that sought to give visibility to the regions we represent by taking advantage of opportunities offered by the planetary reordering to open up steps towards scenarios that began to rise in the margin of the hegemonic forces that designed the routes through which they pushed humanity.

It had created the awareness that in the midst of recomposition new actors would emerge with new interests, more focused on cooperation, collaboration and mutual respect, almost absent in the civilizational scheme that dominated the past century, marked by great scientific leaps and technological ones that were maintained in a few hands, that did not play their role of collectivizing the benefits, and that when they were collectivized, it was as a result of conquered captures.

Antonio Cafiero, at that time president of our Permanent Conference of Political Parties of Latin America and the Caribbean (COPPPAL), Gustavo Carvajal Moreno, deputy president and founding leader of this articulation of parties, and José de Venecia, president of the International Conference of Asian Political Parties (ICAPP), were the architects of this singular and visionary approach that soon included Africa through the creation of the Council of African Political Parties (CAPP).

For these men, these three regions that represent the majority population of the planet, which add the greatest amount of natural resources, the greatest flow of commercial and economic activity, could not continue living at the will of others, dominating the international theater through all the multilateral organizations that defined the commercial, economic and even cultural policies of the regions that we represent those gathered in this historical meeting.

This initiative may have been taken by the States of our regions, but sometimes, in the absence of this superstructure defined as the maximum expression of political organization of people, sometimes called to conduct dialectical processes, political parties as managers of the forces that are nestled in it, are pushed to take the initiative, as happened that October in Buenos Aires.

However, unlike others, and aware of the global nature of all human activity entrenched in interdependence, we have thought about a shared planetary management. The

199 Speeches by the Participants of the 3rd Trilateral Meeting among the ICAPP-COPPPAL-CAPP challenges to feed a world population that grows without our balloon having the potential to swell, so the resources will remain the same, to present us with a coordinated administration without the slightest exclusion.

Since we know that borders do not physically exist, that they are an invention of man, and that, therefore, pollution, for example, does not need a visa to make their sinister routes, it is necessary that all, without exception, participate in the design of a planetary society more civic than consumerist, with more collective consciousness than contaminated with the cult of individualism imposed by the actors of the past.

For many years we have been periphery. The old order, this one that is dying, assigned us the role of looking without participating. Deciding on everything, even on our own without our consent, was sold as the natural order of things or as the design of our gods, and when the sun undressed the hidden interest, it was admitted, without the slightest blush, that the power, many immeasurable times, decided.

The world demands another behavior, and it is the behavior that has served as a philosophical basis for this essay, this political effort that is growing and acquiring a dimension that will open spaces for it; not to displace or destroy, but to include and build.

Latin America, Asia and Africa, take off; COPPPAL, ICAPP and CAPP must be supporters of this takeoff, a launch that implies development, a development that has as its central axis the human being, which is the reason for our struggles, which is the reason of being of our parties and, as a consequence, of our three great party articulations.

Taking this opportunity, we wish to suggest two important items for your review. As President of the COPPPAL, firstly, I would like to make a proposal on establishing a Common Secretariat and its Secretary General that will be assumed by the ICAPP Secretariat and the Secretary General Park, so that we can coordinate and develop our closer cooperation in the future.

Secondly, I wish to ask your attention to how to unite the presidency of our three organizations of Political Parties in three continents. The position may be rotated on a yearly basis, depending on the hosting of the trilateral conference in the future.

Thank you!

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Hon. Jose de Venecia, Jr., Founding Chairman and Chairman of the ICAPP Standing Committee

Thank you very much for your kind remarks and constructive offer.

We would like to welcome and accept your proposal of designating the ICAPP Secretariat and our Secretary General Park as the common Secretariat and the Secretary General of the Common Secretariat. I think your proposal on the rotating of the President of the committees of the three continents would be very complicated to discuss now and we need to defer discussions about the subject to our next meeting.

Our political Parties of the ICAPP, COPPAL and CAPP are ready to support continued progress for denuclearization of the North Korean nuclear program. From this view point, we earnestly hope that the establishing of the Common Secretariat and the Secretary General of the Three Continents will contribute to support Korea’s expanding paths toward peace and common prosperity in our region and the world.

Before closing the meeting, I wish to call on the ICAPP Secretary General Park Ro-byug to make remarks. He is occupying the seat of the ICAPP Secretary General, and now he is going to taking charge of additional responsibilities on the three continents as Secretary General of the Common Secretariat for Asia, Africa and Latin America. He is the Secretary General of three continents! I am pleased to hold this historic gathering in Moscow. Thank you!

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Hon. Park Ro-byug, Secretary General of the ICAPP

Excellencies, Distinguished Delegates, Dear Participants!

It is my privilege to humbly accept your gracious request that I play the role of deepening cooperation among our three continents. This will be a challenging task. I will put my heart into it. And as I exert every effort to fulfill this mission your suggestions will be invaluable.

I would truly appreciate your feedback. I will gladly accommodate your views. And willingly act upon your recommendations on our future course. I am also very much inspired and heartened by your keen attention to and support regarding the situation on the Korean Peninsula. I note with appreciation our members’ support for my assumption of the post of Secretary General of the Common Secretariat and believe your interest will generate impetus for the endeavors by the ROK to foster in our region interaction and closer ties - and the peace and prosperity these bring. These are the noble goals that our people are striving to achieve.

Finally, as for the issues that Hon. Theo Sambuaga and Hon. Hassan Ghafoori Fard referred to, I believe it would be of tremendous value to reflect them in our statement for the trilateral meeting. I believe it is very important to think about how to actually translate into action their recommendations on the need to develop discussions about thematic agenda on economic and trade issues, as well as continued efforts to expand collaboration and interconnectivity through the Silk Road project for the nurturing of a common community. If you have any comments on the draft statement, please don’t hesitate to communicate them to me after the meeting. I am ready to listen to them with a view to enhancing our written commitment. Indeed, this will serve as a reminder to us, a guiding light, in our efforts to nurture the sense of affinity and partnership between us.

Thank you so much for your kind attention!

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Political Parties Conference in Moscow; world needs wise men; need to complete joint program with China on drilling in West Philippine Sea

Manila Bulletin 15 Oct 2018 By JOSE C. DE VENECIA JR. Former Speaker of the House

We are off next week to preside at the October 24-27 10th General Assembly of the International Conference of Asian Political Parties (ICAPP) in Moscow, now composed of more than 340 ruling, opposition, and independent parties in Asia, with expected guests from political groups from Europe, Africa, North America, Latin America and Australasia.

The Moscow meeting on October 24-27 will be immediately followed by a Special Workshop in Seoul, South Korea, on Green Cities, October 30-November 2, being organized by former UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, now chairman of the Global Green Growth Institute (GGGI), former South Korean Ambassador to Russia Park Rob-yug, now our ICAPP secretary-general based in Seoul, and by the undersigned as ICAPP founding chairman and chairman of the ICAPP Standing Committee.

For the Moscow conference, following our earlier meetings in Vladivostok in the last three years, on vast Russia’s eastern frontier on the Pacific coast, we told Russian Ambassador to Manila Igor Khovaev last week that we are still writing our speech and hope to seek counsel from our other Russian friends, Senator Andrey Klimov, Russian board member in our 35- man ICAPP Standing Committee, and our former ICAPP board member, Konstantin Koshachev, who is well regarded by the Russian leadership and adviser to President Putin.

However as a friend to Russia, it is our hope that the US, China, and the major powers in the European Union who were Allies during World War II, that it might be a good idea in our opening speech to devote some time to recall the great glory days of World War II, when Russia under Joseph Stalin, the US under Franklin Delano Roosevelt, England under Winston Churchill, Nazioccupied France led from the outside by Gen. Charles de Gaulle, China under President Chiang Kai-shek, followed later by Mao Tze Tung and Deng Hsiao Peng, with the Philippines, as a Commonwealth then, not yet independent but allied with the US, led the Allies into victory and slowly but steadily lifted the world from the ashes of devastation.

Would it not be a good idea then if some wise men, retired senior leaders, and movers of public opinion and civil society today in both East and West would call on the leaders now of the allied World War II nations and their former enemies, but today, their staunch allies,

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Japan, Germany, and Italy, in a genuine global alliance in concert with and under United Nations aegis, to continuously work, without deadline, on a long-term global agenda for peace. Impossible dream, maybe, but the optimists and the students of history believe that the work must continuously go on and the dream should never die.

And last week, before his scheduled departure as secretary of foreign affairs to run for congressman in the House of Representatives as a prelude to his announced eventual run for speaker of the House next year, we suggested that Alan Peter Cayetano might finalize with President Rodrigo Duterte an understanding with Chinese President Xi Jinping on a likely Joint Exploration and Development Program in the South China Sea (West Philippine Sea), as the highlight of several agreements with China during President Xi’s scheduled official visit to Manila in November.

We believe the South China Sea area off Palawan and below the Spratlys with now multiple claimants, could be expected to yield significant volumes of natural gas and/or crude oil, which could easily be pumped and shipped to nearby refineries in the Philippines and Southern China as against the expensive back-and-forth long journeys of huge tankers across the Straits of Malacca, the Gulf of Thailand, the Indian Ocean, the Straits of Hormuz and into the Persian Gulf (Arab Gulf) to lift crude in Saudi Arabia or United Arab Emirates or Kuwait for refineries in the Philippines, China, Taiwan, Korea, and Japan.

As president of the Petroleum Association of the Philippines for more than ten years and having helped discover and develop the first Philippine offshore oil wells in the 1970s in the Northwest Palawan Sea (the Nido and Masinloc oil wells for our companies then, Basic Petroleum and Landoil, together with our partners, Oriental Petroleum, Philippine Overseas and the US companies), it is urgent and important that the Philippines under President Duterte and incoming Secretary Locsin might now direct the completion of negotiations with Chinaand schedule the first, long-anticipated joint-venture Filipino and Chinese offshore drilling in the sea, most likely, we would guess, in the Reed Bank of the South China Sea (West Philippine Sea).

In a previous recent column, we conjectured that a successful oil discovery in the South China Sea by a FilipinoChinese joint venture or consortium will dramatically reduce or put to an end the possibilities of explosive conflict in the area.

When we were speaker of the House of Representatives and founding chairman of the International Conference of Asian Political Parties (ICAPP) in the year 2000, we accompanied then President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo on her first state visit to China, which coincided with the Third Biennial Conference of the ICAPP (now representing some 300 ruling, opposition, and independent political parties in Asia) held in Beijing. To take advantage of the happy occasion in the Chinese capital, we proposed to the President that we negotiate and sign a Joint Oil Seismic agreement with China in the South China Sea which

204 News Reports on the 10th GA she then and there approved, and together, we immediately presented the idea to our host, the China President Hu Jintao, who heartily gave his approval. After we left the Chinese president for another meeting, we thought of another potential winner, and proposed that we include the other claimant in the South China Sea, Vietnam, for a tripartite agreement.

The Chinese president then smiled and gave his immediate assent, and then both Presidents Hu Jintao and Gloria Macapagal Arroyo then turned around and looked at me, to undertake a special mission to convince the Vietnamese to be the third signatory, in what was to become a Tripartite Seismic Agreement, preparatory to drilling. After another day in Beijing with wife Gina, then President Arroyo and the First Gentleman Mike Arroyo returned to Manila after a most productive visit to China.

At home, after a quick check with our office in Congress, we hurriedly motored to the airport for our next journey to Hanoi to convince the Vietnamese to co-sign what would become the Tripartite Seismic Agreement in the South China Sea.

We were not apprehensive of our Hanoi visit. While Vietnam was the third claimant in the isles, sand cays, coral reefs, and the tiny areas in the South China Sea, obviously also for hydrocarbons, we were also of the belief that friendship in ASEAN and realpolitik would insure that Hanoi would co-sign a tripartite seismic pact.

In Hanoi, we met with both the past and the current Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) General Secretary, Nguyeh Duc Manh and Nguyen Phu Throng, respectively, who are our old friends, and both actually higher in rank than Vietnam’s president or prime minister under their hierarchical system. We had the other good fortune that Vietnam’s capable deputy foreign minister was also a graduate of our De La Salle College, where we finished high school, and as with the Vietnam speaker, we were on first-name basis.

We went home with Vietnam’s agreement our tripartite Philippines-ChinaVietnam venture, hopefully a precursor of the anticipated eventual common oil exploration and development agreement in the South China Sea. The costs of the detailed wide-ranging Seismic Survey in the sea were to be jointly shared by the three governments.

The subsequent seismic survey findings indicated a number of attractive drillable structures, which would most likely bear hydrocarbons (oil and/ or gas) below the sea, and which can only be tested by strategraphic tests: direct drilling by expensive exploration below the sea bed conducted by modern drillships.

In earlier days and up to now, the best and biggest drillships and semisubmersibles at the time were those built and owned by the Americans; most of the offshore drilling were in the North Sea, in the US West Coast, in the Gulf of Mexico, and in the Alaskan coast.

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A few years ago, while on a visit to southern China, our friends in the offshore oil exploration industry, spoke of giant Chinese drillships and drilling platforms, some on standby off Fujian or Guangdong waters or near Hainan island.

Instead of hiring US or Western drillships, which would have to sail great distances to reach potential drilling sites in the South China Sea, it would indeed be prudent and less expensive, if any first joint Filipino-Chinese oil-drilling venture in the China Sea would engage the huge Chinese offshore drillships parked nearby. The exploration costs and drillship rentals will be cheaper and shared, and in any Filipino-Chinese oil drilling partnership, the most likely operator would be a Chinese oil company partner, most likely government-owned, and which would engage on contract the Chinese oil-drilling ship.

This would be the likely scenario if our astute Foreign Secretary Alan Peter Cayetano or equally brilliant, rumored successor Teodoro “Teddyboy” Locsin, the Philippine ambassador to the UN, finalizes an Oil Exploration Agreement with China with a commitment to drill a number of offshore wells in the South China Sea and which, we would guess, would result in substantial oil discoveries that could dramatically reduce our huge annual oil bill and almost total dependence on Arabian crude oil.

These outcomes would immediately be beneficial to the Philippines and China because the crude oil or natural gas could immediately be shipped to Philippine or Chinese refineries nearby unlike hydrocarbons discovered in distant seas like those on the Persian Gulf.

Presumably, any agreement with China will comply with the Philippine Constitution, which reserves the Philippines’ natural resources for exploitation and use by Filipinos, if the drilling is conducted in the old Filipino Petroleum Exploration Concession (PEC), but Chinese and/or foreign participation is allowed and encouraged under the current Service Contracts.

The Filipino-Chinese exploration agreement will most likely designate an “Operator,” as in all Western or Eastern oil exploration agreements. One of the partners will undertake the management of the drilling operation designated as “Operator” with the costs shared by the parties, with obviously the manager-operator given an extra fee. The operator could also be the Filipino partner but unlikely because management of the drilling will be undertaken by the operator.

The much larger work will commence when oil is struck and the huge problems of development begin: raising huge finance, building pipelines in the sea all the way to on-land destinations, or loading more crude on tankers destined to farther ports in China or the Philippines or for third-party buyers.

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Russia into the fold https://www.pressreader.com/philippines/manila-bulletin/20181028/282260961455781 Manila Bulletin 28 Oct 2018 By JOSE C. DE VENECIA JR. FORMER SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE

To meet these challenges, Asia’s leaderships must raise strong political will... (Remarks of Former Speaker of the Philippine House of Representatives Jose de Venecia Jr., at the 10th General Assembly of the International Conference of Asian Political Parties (ICAPP), Moscow, Russia on October 24-27, 2018)

ON behalf of the Standing Committee of the International Conference of Asian Political Parties (ICAPP), we are honored to add our welcome to those already expressed here for all the participants and guests at this 10th General Assembly of the ICAPP and its founding in Manila at the turn of the century, in the year 2000.

We thank the United Russia Party led by its Chairman and statesman, H.E. Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev, for hosting this conference. May we also greet H.E. Sergey Zheleznyak, Deputy Secretary General for International Affairs of the United Russia Party, and the other highly-regarded representatives of the United Russia Party in the ICAPP Standing Committee, our dear colleagues, H.E. Senator Andrey Klimov, and H.E. Senator Konstantin Kosachev, and their able Ambassador to Manila H.E. Igor Khovaev.

First and foremost, we thank the Russian Government and the Russian people led by H.E. President Vladimir Putin for his sustained remarkable leadership and for welcoming us to this great nation.

Embracing ICAPP’s original vision

We are gathered here in Moscow to celebrate another historic milestone for our International Conference of Asian Political Parties (ICAPP), which now represents some 350 ruling, opposition, and independent political parties from 52 countries in Asia.

Eighteen years ago in the year 2000, when 40 Asian parties responded to our invitation to inaugurate the ICAPP in Manila, we laid out a vision in our opening remarks.

“To meet these challenges,” we said, “Asia’s leaderships must raise strong political will, and this political will only the political parties can provide. For, while governments come and go, political parties remain.”

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For emphasis we said, “By just agreeing to talk about shared solutions to problems that we have in common is already a major achievement in itself.”

For, together, we constitute an instrument for global peace, a vehicle for development, and a force to help solve the festering conflicts in our continent and in the global community. There are much more protracted conflicts in Asia and the international community, and they are occurring in our seas and in our land borders.

A most practical solution in China Sea crises

On the maritime disputes, the one that is causing the greatest concern is in the South China Sea, sparked by the raging disagreement and conflicting sovereignty claims.

But we have repeatedly pointed out that there is the potential for a peaceful settlement.

China’s former great leader, Deng Xiaoping, the architect of its economic modernization, already laid out the best possible route that rival claimants China, the Philippines, Vietnam, Malaysia, Brunei, and even Taiwan could take. It is to temporarily shelve the issue of sovereignty to pave the way for joint exploration and joint development of the disputed area’s hydrocarbon resources.

We had the privilege to officially propose in 2004-2005, then as speaker of the House, the three-nation seismic agreement officially signed and undertaken by Manila, Beijing, and Hanoi. Its aim was to assess the area’s potential for oil/gas exploration and development preparatory to drilling and create the environment for peace and cooperation in the China Sea. Hydrocarbon specialists of the three nations pronounced the area’s prospects “promising.”

Yes, now is the time to revive this agreement so rival nations could convert the area from one of conflict into a Zone of Peace, Friendship, Cooperation, and Development. It is obvious as members of the ASEAN family that today, with China, we must find ways and means to jointly develop its oil/gas potential to help lessen our expensive common dependence on distant petroleum sources in the Persian/Arab Gulf of the Middle East.

Imagine the potential for peace in the heartland of the South China Sea if we undertake a joint development of its resources.

From an area of conflict, it could be transformed into a landscape and seascape of small seaports, airports, and oil pipelines. Fishing villages and small tourism townships could

208 News Reports on the 10th GA rapidly rise and the contested areas could become the untrammelled passage way for global shipping, carrying more than 50 percent of the sea freight of the world.

This is perhaps the most realistic, most common-sensical solution to the problem of the Spratlys and the nearby Paracels, and which could be joined by Vietnam, Malaysia, Brunei, and Taiwan, and could also be the same formula for the dangerous problem between China and Japan in the tiny isles in the Senkaku Straits or Diaoyu in the East China Sea.

Resource-sharing by other countries

In the Norwegian Ekofisk oil field in the North Sea — which we visited when we were president of the Petroleum Association of the Philippines in the 1970s — the discovered oil in the sea goes even now to Norway and to Teeside, England, and the natural gas goes to Germany.

The oil in the Caspian Sea countries is shared by Iran, Russia, Kazakhstan and Azerbaijan, and others, because among them, there is demarcation and practical mutual understanding and goodwill.

Giant Australia and tiny East Timor share the hydrocarbons in the South Pacific in the waters just below Darwin and on the southeast side of Asia’s newest republic.

The 1989 agreement between Malaysia and Thailand enabled them to jointly develop their disputed waters.

The Guinea-Bissau and Senegal Agreement of 1993 helped the concerned countries develop their disputed areas.

The border conflicts in Asia are more explosive, seemingly more intractable — between India and Pakistan over Kashmir, between India and China in their common mountainous region, between Azerbaijan and Armenia in Nagorno-Karabakh, and the continuing most difficult conflict between the Israelis and Arabs.

More than ever, the political parties of Asia, strongly support the revival of the Arab-Israeli peace process and indeed all similar initiatives in the conflict areas of the world. Russia-China War averted

Dear friends: Might not the lessons of history again help us?

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Even as dangerous a dispute as one between Russia and China, which led the two countries involving hundreds of thousands of their troops poised to pounce on each other on the brink of war, did not explode into full-scale bloody confrontation because of prudence.

As you may recall, the dispute was over a territory in the vicinity of the Ussuri (Wusuli) river in the eastern region of the then USSR, north of Vladivostok, in 1969.

As a young journalist at the time, we still remember with nostalgia the great relief of the international community over the classic truce in the Ussuri river.

Revival of Six-Party Talks on North Korea

On the Korean peninsula, another major flashpoint, we also ask for the revival of the long stalemated SixNation Talks between South Korea, North Korea, the U.S., Japan, China, and Russia to consider reunification of the two Koreas, which is a most difficult but not an impossible task.

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Sujata Koirala off to Moscow for the ICAPP General Assembly

Kathmandu– Nepali Congress leader & former DPM/Foreign Minister Sujata Koirala off to Moscow, the capital city of the Russian Federation for attend ICAPP, International Conference of Asian Political Parties 10th General Assembly .

The assembly will be held on 24 October- 27 October 2018 under the auspices of the ruling party, United Russia Party. The political parties attending the ICAPP General Assembly will focus on its two main agenda’s “The role of political parties in reducing international tensions and combating extremism” and “The importance of international inter-party cooperation in the formation and development of political, economical, social ties between states”.

Mrs. Koirala will present her papers on “The role of political parties in reducing international tensions and combating extremism” in the 10th General Assembly. She will also hold several bilateral political meetings to discuss on cooperation and strengthening the party to party relations with leaders of Asia, Africa and Latin America at the General Assembly.

The leaders including several former prime ministers, ministers, speakers of parliament, head of the party and representatives of 70 political parties will be gathered in Moscow,, for the Tenth General Assembly of the International Conference of Asian Political Parties (ICAPP). Leader of UML and former PM Jhala Nath Kahanal is also attending the General Assembly along with several other world leaders.

This historic assembly will be another occasion to further promote the ICAPP objectives of strengthening democracy and raising the standard of living in our region through expanded cooperation among political parties. The 31st Meeting of the Standing Committee, the 4th Meeting of the Youth Wing, the 4th Meeting of the ICAPP Media Forum, the 5th Meeting of the ICAPP Women’s Wing and the1st Meeting of the Coordination Committee among ICAPP-COPPPAL-CAPP are planned to be held on the side of the 10th General Assembly. Mrs. Koirala is the member of the ICAPP Standing Committee, Co- Chair of the ICAPP Women’s Wing and Vice Chair, ICAPP Asian Cultural Council. NC Leader Ms Koirala will be returning Kathmandu on 28th October 2018.

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The Express Tribune > Pakistan https://tribune.com.pk/story/1837589/1-mushahid-hussain-attends-icapp/ Mushahid Hussain attends ICAPP Share Tweet Mushahid Hussain attends ICAPP Asian political leaders attending International Conference of Asian Political Parties in Moscow / Published: October 31, 2018

Asian political leaders attending International Conference of Asian Political Parties in Moscow. PHOTO: EXPRESS

Senator Mushahid Hussain amongst a group of Asian Political leaders received by Russian Prime Minister Dmitri Medvedev in Moscow during the International Conference of Asian Political Parties (ICAPP). Published in The Express Tribune, October 31st, 2018

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Moscow hosts International Conference of Asian Political Parties first time https://russkiymir.ru/en/news/247759/

25.10.2018

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Representatives of 360 parliamentary parties from 53 Asia-Pacific and Middle East countries gathered in Moscow for the International Conference of Asian Political Parties (ICAPP) held on October 25 and 26, the United Russia party reports. Participants will discuss the role of people's representatives in ensuring international security, preventing the interference in the state affairs, social and economic cooperation.

Russia has not previously hosted such scale parliamentary conferences. Representatives of the leading parties of the three macro-regions, Asia-Pacific, Latin America and Africa, will meet in Moscow. Delegations from the last two regions will act as observers. According to the deputy chairman of the Federation Council Committee on Foreign Affairs Andrei Klimov, representatives of the parties voted to meet in Moscow. Certainly, it attaches political weight to the conference. The proposal to hold a conference in Russia came from the leadership of

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ICAPP. According to Andrei Klimov, this underlines the contribution of our country to solving global world problems especially important when anti-Russian tendency prevails in the West.

"Our forum helps to overcome the lack of dialogue crucial on both regional and global levels", said Boris Gryzlov, the chairman of the United Russia party high council welcoming the members of the ICAAP permanent committee. "And it is very symbolic that the meeting is taking place in Russia, a country uniting the territories of Europe and Asia", the official stated. He voiced the hope that staying in the Russian capital will allow guests to explore the cultural and historical traditions of our country as well as its social and political life. In turn, this will increase the chances for further development of international cooperation.

Special attention at the assembly will be paid to the problem of trade wars, which, in the opinion of the organizers, jeopardies mutually beneficial cooperation between countries in the economic sphere and in security field. The parties-members will discuss the possibilities for ending trade wars or reducing their damage to relations between countries and peoples.

The assembly will also include a women's forum, a young people conference, a cultural meeting under the auspices of UNESCO etc. Bilateral meetings are scheduled at different levels. At the end of the assembly, a declaration will be adopted. According to the experts, a global union of political parties can be created at the conference. It will unite the leading political forces of the macro region and the world.

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o The delegation of MPP attended the 10th General Assembly of ICAPP2018 11 2

The United Russia Party of Russian Federation successfully organized the 10th General Assembly of ICAPP in Moscow on 24-27 October, 2018. The delegations from 35 political parties from Asian region and 70 political parties from African and Latin American states attended this year’s General Assembly, further discussing and exchanging views on “Role of Political Parties in Reducing International Tensions and Combating Extremism” and the “Importance of International Inter-party Cooperation in the Formation and Development of Political, Economic and Social Ties between States”.

Advisor to Secretary General of MPP, Ms. Ts.Munkhtsetseg and the Head of Department of Media and Information, Ms. A.Enkhzul represented Mongolian People’s Party.

Advisor to Secretary General of MPP, Ms. Ts.Munkhtsetseg and the Head of Department of Media and Information, Ms. A.Enkhzul each gave their speeches on “Mongolian People’s Party’s policy to ensure and protect women’s rights”, “The actuality of Mongolian media” during the Fifth session of Women’s Wing and Forth session of Media Forums.

The delegations discussed about the growing tension in international community, about the hazards of terrorism and extremism, admitting that the co-operation and friendly ties between political parties would contribute to encounter these problems and signing the Moscow Declaration. One of the provisions said, “We shared a common understanding that reducing international tension and combating violent extremism is a commitment and obligation under the principles and values enshrined in the Charter of the ICAPP and the United Nations, thus reaching a common understanding on the importance of roles of social media and the Internet in reducing substantial amount of tensions and combating violent extremism. In this regard, to battle these problems the political parties must enhance their co-operation and strengthen their friendly ties.”

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https://www.nknews.org/2018/10/dprk-russian-ruling-parties-agree-to-step-up- economic-development-exchanges/

DPRK, Russian ruling parties agree to step up “economic development” exchanges Two sides vow to improve ties in Moscow agreement

October 26th, 2018

Representatives from the ruling parties of North Korea and Russia on Thursday agreed to boost exchanges in the fields of economic development and political organization. The two sides agreed to hold more political consultations in the future, a statement by Russia’s United Russia party read, and “exchange experience in the field of party building, organizational work, youth policy, economic development and other areas of mutual interest.” Referring to multiple bilateral agreements in one statement, including with the ruling parties of Turkey and Serbia, United Russia said they would also “actively develop inter-party relations and contacts at the regional level” with the Workers’ Party of Korea (WPK). Representing the WPK for the signing was vice department director of the Central Committee of the WPK Ryu Myong Son, while President Vladimir Putin’s United Russia was represented by Secretary of its General Council Andrey Turchak. They are among over 70 parties participating in the 10th General Assembly of the International Conference of Asian Political Parties (ICAPP) in Moscow this week.

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The high-level statement of interest by Russia’s ruling party in North Korea’s economic development comes as Moscow continues to press for loosening UN sanctions following what it sees as concessions made by Pyongyang on denuclearization. Both sides previously called for the denuclearization negotiations with the U.S. to be “phased and synchronous in nature and accompanied by reciprocal steps by the states involved” in a joint communiqué signed by the vice foreign ministers of China, the DPRK, and Russia earlier this month.

On the economic front, the two countries inked a deal in September for North Korea to open a trade office in the Russian Far East, though no time frame was set for the project. A day before Thursday’s signing, too, United Russia’s Andrei Klimov said their party “fully supported the WPK’s new strategic line on concentrating all efforts on the economic development,” according to a report in DPRK ruling party organ the Rodong Sinmun.

WPK representative Ryu and a member of South Korea’s Democratic Party also made contact during the event | Photo: Office of Representative Park Young-sun

But while concern among the international community has grown recently over Moscow’s continued economic ties with the North, spokesperson for the Russian foreign ministry Maria Zakharova earlier this month denied the country was violating UN sanctions restricting the hiring of DPRK laborers.

“All workers from North Korea without exception are on Russian territory under contracts of employment signed before September 11, 2017, as paragraph 17 of UN Resolution 2375 stipulates,” Zakharova said during a press briefing, adding the workers “can continue working until December 22, 2019” under the language of the resolution.

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The two countries have recently held a series of formal events marking the 70th anniversary of establishing diplomatic relations, with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un expected to visit Russia in the near future.

President Putin’s press secretary Dmitry Peskov said on Monday, however, that a date and location for the planned summit had still yet to be determined.

Meanwhile, representative for South Korean President Moon Jae-in’s Democratic Party Park Young-sun also attended the ICAPP meetings this week and appears to have held informal talks with her North Korean counterparts there.

Park posted images to her Twitter account showing her team sitting for a meal at the same table as the WPK delegation and said organizers of the event were responsible for the placement.

Her office also released an image of her and Ryu chatting at the event, where the North Korean representative reportedly said it was “great that North and South Korean parliamentary-level talks are happening through such official channels.”

Edited by Oliver Hotham Featured image: United Russia

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Sputnik International

ASIA & PACIFIC 17:03 25.10.2018 (updated 17:12 25.10.2018)

MOSCOW (Sputnik) - The efforts made by North Korean leader Kim Jong-un and Pyongyang's negotiations with Seoul and Washington have reduced tensions between the two Koreas and brought peace to the Korean Peninsula, Ryu Myong-son, deputy chair of the international department of the Workers' Party of Korea, has stated.

“Thanks to the firm and decisive actions by Chairman of the Workers' Party of Korea Kim Jong-un, we have come to eliminate the differences on the Korean Peninsula. Negotiations between the chairman of the Workers' Party and the leaders of the United States, South Korea have led to peace and prosperity on the peninsula," Ryu said at the ICAPP General Assembly in Moscow.

The party official added that the situation on the Korean Peninsula had de-escalated and that the countries' "common desire is to live in peace, without any confrontations and destruction."

Ryu is currently visiting Moscow, where he has brought a North Korean delegation to participate in the 10th General Assembly of the International Conference of Asian Political Parties (ICAPP).

ICAPP was established in 2000, bringing together political parties from across Asia, the Middle East and Oceania to promote regional cooperation and enhance trust and understanding among Asian countries. The ICAPP currently consists of more than 352 political parties from 52 countries.

Over the past few months, Pyongyang has demonstrated a willingness to reduce tensions between the two Koreas and work toward the denuclearization of the peninsula. Kim attended three historic summits with South Korean President Moon Jae-in and held an unprecedented meeting with US President Donald Trump, pledging to achieve lasting peace in the region.

https://sputniknews.com/asia/201810251069208706-north-korea-peninsula-peace/

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Russian legislator castigates rise of blocs in global politics as ‘destroying humanity’

Russian Politics & Diplomacy / http://tass.com/politics/1027982

October 26, 13:22 UTC+3

The modern world continues to exist on the principle of blocs to a large extent, according to a Russain politician

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MOSCOW, October 26. /TASS/. Chairman of the Russian Federation Council’s (upper house of parliament) Foreign Affairs Committee and member of the Supreme Council of the United Russia political party Konstantin Kosachev has pointed to the dangers of the bloc system expanding throughout global politics, where the interests of some country or group of countries are implemented by suppressing the interests of other states and peoples.

"The modern world continues to exist on the principle of blocs to a large extent, where interests rather than values turn out to be a priority. To my deep regret, these interests in the modern world materialize by suppressing or ignoring the interests of other states and peoples that are not members of certain blocs," Kosachev said at the 10th General Assembly of the International Conference of Asian Political Parties (ICAPP) on Friday. Its plenary meeting was dedicated to the importance of international inter-party cooperation in shaping and developing political, economic and social ties between states.

Kosachev went on to castigate this bloc system by saying it is "destroying humanity". "Once attempts are made to indoctrinate society, the country or the globe with only one correct point of view, then this society and this world will certainly slow down their development rather than accelerate it," the senator emphasized.

He stressed that every nation is entitled to "choose its sovereign national development path." "That goes for its economy, political structure and party system," Kosachev said.

He cited the Soviet Union as an example, which had a one-party system that had both its pros and cons, for nearly 70 years. Later on, another path was chosen and a multi-party system was created. "That was our own choice, the choice of our people rather than a model imposed

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"We consider any party, political and economic system to be the sovereign right of a people living in a particular country. This right is not subject to pressure and adjustment from the outside," he stressed.

Details on the ICAPP conference

The 10th General Assembly of the International Conference of Asian Political Parties (ICAPP), which brings together more than 360 parliamentary parties from 53 countries of the Asia-Pacific region and the Middle East, is being held in Moscow for the first time with the support of the United Russia political party on October 25-26, 2018. Its key objective is promoting cooperation, mutual understanding and confidence between countries and continents.

More than 320 participants, with 275 of them representing 74 political parties from 42 countries, will hash over pressing global issues amid mounting pressure from some countries and map out ways for more mutually beneficial cooperation and good-neighborly partnerships. Observers from Latin America, Africa and Europe are attending the event.

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Over 500 People From 50 Countries Took Part In Asian Parties Conference - Russian Lawmaker

Mohammad Ali (@ChaudhryMAli88) 18 days ago Fri 26th October 2018 | 10:39 PM

More than 500 people from 50 countries took part in the International Conference of Asian Political Parties (ICAPP), a senior member of the United Russia party, Andrey Klimov said Friday.

MOSCOW (UrduPoint News / Sputnik - 26th October, 2018) More than 500 people from 50 countries took part in the International Conference of Asian Political Parties (ICAPP), a senior member of the United Russia party, Andrey Klimov said Friday.

The 10th ICAPP General Assembly was held in Moscow on Thursday and Friday. "The total number of participants without accompanying persons amounted to more than 270 people. In total, about 500 people from 50 countries took part in our work," Klimov, who is also a member of the ICAPP Standing Committee, told reporters.

He stressed that the ICAPP General Assembly was successful.

Klimov also noted the important role of the conference, something that was stressed by Russian President Vladimir Putin as well as Prime Minister and head of the United Russia party Dmitry Medvedev in their addresses to the participants.

ICAPP was established in 2000, bringing together political parties from across Asia, Middle East and Oceania to promote regional cooperation and enhance trust and understanding among Asian countries. The ICAPP currently consists of more than 352 political parties from 52 countries.

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Vietnam calls for closer cooperation between Asian political parties 08:56 ngày 26 tháng 10 nm 2018

Political parties in Asia should reinforce cooperation to maintain peace, security, prosperity and development in the region and the world as well, said Hoang Binh Quan, Chairman of the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) Central Committee’s Commission for External Relations.

Hoang Binh Quan, Chairman of the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) Central Committee’s Commission for External Relations, speaks at the first plenum of the 10th General Assembly of the International Conference of Asian Political Parties (ICAPP) Quan was speaking at the first plenum of the 10th General Assembly of the International Conference of Asian Political Parties (ICAPP) that opened in Moscow, Russia, on October 25.

He called on Asian political parties to heighten the spirit of dialogue and cooperation, build trust and settle disputes and conflicts through peaceful measures based on fundamental principles of the UN Charter and standards of international relations.

At this year’s general assembly, the CPV was elected as Vice President of the ICAPP Standing Committee.

The two-day event brought together about 500 delegates, including representatives of more than 70 political parties from 40 countries and observers.

The delegates focus on the role of political parties in ensuring international security and fighting extremism, as well as building and developing mutually beneficial political, socio- economic ties between countries.

Earlier, the CPV delegation paid a courtesy visit to Boris Gryzlov, Chairman of the United Russia Party Supreme Council, and held talks with Evgeny Revenko, Deputy

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Secretary of the General Council of the United Russia Party.

The two sides committed to making all-out efforts to effectively implement the outcomes of the visit to Russia by General Secretary of the CPV Central Committee Nguyen Phu Trong last September.

They agreed to coordinate with relevant agencies of the two countries to prepare for upcoming visits to Vietnam by Russia’s senior leaders.

At the same time, they will work to fruitfully realise cooperation agreements reached by the two parties, especially in intensifying political consultations and dialogues in order to continuously promote mutual trust and understanding, contributing to creating a firm political foundation and forging the Vietnam-Russia comprehensive strategic partnership. VNA

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21 ᵐạ 46 ᵐ 㥉␭㡰⦐ 㻐ⷈ䚨䜸㣠 53 ᵐạ 360 㜠 ᵐ 㥉␭㡸㙸㟤⪨⏈ ὤẠ⦐ 䞉␴╄㡰⮤, 䚐ạ㢌 ⒈⺼㛨ⴰ㨰␭·㣄㡔䚐ạ␭·ⵈ⪬⴬⣌␭, ⺵䚐㢌 ⊬┍␭ ☥ 㨰㟈㥉␭☘⓸ 㵬㜠䚌Ḕ 㢼␘.

2009 ≸ 㢨⣌ ㇠ⱨạ㡸㉐㟬㜄 ▄Ḕ 㢼㡰⮤ 䜸㣠 ⵉ⊬ⷱ 㤸(訲) ⤠㐐㙸㨰㣠䚐ạ ␴㇠ᴴ ㇠ⱨ㹑㣙㫵㡸 ⬕Ḕ 㢼␘.

㝠䚨 ⯜㏘䆠ⵈ㜄㉐㜨⫤ 㥐 10 䟀 ICAPP 㹑䟀㜄⏈ 42 ᵐạ 74 ᵐ 㥉␭ ␴䖐 275 ⮹㡸䔠䚜䚨 ⯜▄ 320 㜠 ⮹㢨㵬㉑䚼␘.

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ࢽ৔ > ˯ୠීࢺз

"ࠏ۱, գֵ۱ 菄ϝѭз ْْ࢝ րΜ "Τٓ˯ୠୠг ࢳ̎ ঱ऎଙ࢒؀

"գْْ࢝ "ːݢॶπ ʆ˅ ϟࡿଙ࢒

ˈܞ ۰ࡌ=Ѝݛ 1) ࢽۘୱ ̛࢕ | 2018-10-25 11:52)

Χٖ ࢂୣ ˗˃࢕Қࢇ ߅ݤ߅ࢽк˲ࢿୣࢂ(ICAPP)߾۰ Χٖ˲ୣୣжࡶ ࢶ̑ .঴ऑଜ࢕ˈ ࢂʺࡶ ֻߑЬ

(ࠒ۴ шٙ߭׷࣯к ࢂࡕࡵ 24 ࢊ ࠝ୯(ୃएݤɾ؃ оଞ׷˲ ICAPP ୣࢠࢇ̛Ѧ ଞ

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߾۰ ࠊջ ICAPP ࢿ 10 ८ ࢽ̛দୣ߾۰ զָ۴ ٖଞ ϠѰк؂Ԝݤ߅ ֻݛ਺ Χٖ˲ୣୣж ঴ऑࡶ ࡢଥ Ϡԯଟ ʨࡶ ؀ ࢿٕ ٕٕࢠࡶ փΟ Χٖૡ୘୆ԯ˲ ࢿ߇ବЬ.

ஜۘ ˲ୣࢂࢠ͉۰Ѧ Χٖ˲ୣୣж߾ քࡵ ˗ݪࡶח" ࢂࡕࡵ զ ٕٕࢠ߾ʯ ؃ .ʉˈ ˃ݦЬ"ִ۰ "ࢶ̑ ঴ऑଥɼ࢕"ˈ ֆବЬ

Ь"ִ۰ "Χٖଞ ɾ ୘ଥڿ̛ ࢇ߾ զ ٕٕࢠࡵ "ࢇ˲Ҵ߾۰ Ѱ૦ձ փΟТ ֐ࡉ ˈ"୆ԯࢇ ࢚ ࢇ՜एˈ, Χٖ˲ୣୣжࢇ ˓ݥॹσࡶ ʉˈ ϢࢂଜЕ ʨࢇ ࣚʵЬ зବЬ.

؃ ICAPP ߾ ଞ˲ ্ о૲ԻЕ ءࢊ ࢊࢽࡳԻ ऑଭѸЕ ࢇ 4 ؃ࠝЕ 27 ࢊ̧ए 3 հ׵Ԏк ࢇ୊ୱ·ଜ੓ˁ ࢂࡕࢇ؂ ,ࢢ୎ ࢂࡕ؃·ۿࢂࡕ˕ ଡ͉ ׷࣯к ࠝࢿ .ॳ۱ବЬ. ্ٖ߾۰Е զ ٕٕࢠࡶ ЯࢠࡳԻ ଞ о૲Яࢇ ॳࠆବЬ

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ࢽ৔ > ˯ୠීࢺз

"ˀɹ ࡸдଜ ҳۼ ѣ ૞୕ ϝԬ߻؃ࠏ۱ "芉ࢺْ ଛ؀

"ԋײ कࢄ࢒ ۗԸࡈە ߂ݡ߂ࢺз˯ࢼୠࡿ ̘࣌ࠆ۳߻ۭ "ஆࢴ ࣔݢࡲ ૞୕

ˈܞ ۰ࡌ=Ѝݛ 1) ࢽۘୱ ̛࢕ | 2018-10-25 19:30)

߾۰ ࠊջ؂ࠒ۴ шٙ߭׷࣯к ࢂࡕࡵ 25 ࢊ(ୃएݤɾ) Ԝݤ߅ ֻݛ਺؃ ࢢࢉ ࢽٕЕ ଞ؆Ѧ߾ח" ߅ݤ߅ࢽк˲ࢿୣࢂ(ICAPP) ࢿ 10 ८ দୣ߾۰ ֲ"ଜˈ ૡ୘ձ ɼࣇ̛ࠝ ࡢଥ ফ۴ࢂ Ϡԯࡶ Ьଜˈ ࢑Ьܕࢷࢪࡢଵࡶ ଥ .ɼ ଡ͉ଜˈ ࡻзଟ ݤɾ"ࢇԂˈ ֆବЬ˃ۿ ࢇࢿЕ"

ࢂࡕࡵ ؃ ୣ ICAPP ࢂࡕࠉ֘ ୣࢠࢇ࢕ ۘࢎࡢࡕ ࢕ʸࡳԻ দୣ߾ ॳ۱ଞ˲ Я࣯ࢂ(੨Ԝ) оঈձ ࡢଞ ࢽкࢂ ࠇଟ'ࢇԂЕ ࣯ࢿԻ̑ ؀ ࢇΤ '˲ࢿࢶ ̝ࢠࠬ୘

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ࣸଞ ɼ৔"Ԃֲܕ ୣࢂ߾۰ "ૡ୘Е ए˱ࢉ ֻѿɼ ଡ͉ଜЕ ɼࢠق ऑଭѹ .ࢇԥʯ ؉ୈЬ

ˋ ࢂࡕࡵ ଞ؆Ѧࢂ ٗЯ ۘଢ଼ࡶ ۶ָଜֲ "Χٖଞࢂ о୘ࠪ உࢷ ࣗݥࡵ ؃ ˈѰ߅ݤ߅ ૡ୘ࢂ ۘघࢇֲ ए˱ۘ߾ ցएւ Χࡵ ٗЯ˲ɼࢂ ۚԻࡋ ׵Ԏ"Ԃ̑ ̗߯ବЬ.

ˈବы 9 ϗࢂ ݤɾ Ѱ߇ ׷࣯࣯ࢂЕ ୯ઁଜ׃ ࢂࡕࡵ "׷࣯кࢇ ख̀ଜए ؃ ଞ؆Ѧ ૡ୘ࢂ ̟ Ӗଞ ւୈЬ"ֲ "ࢇ߾ ˲׷Қࡵ ࢽࢂձ ٕծङࡳֲ থٙࡶ ࢢࢉ о੼Զࡵ ীࢎ˕ Ѱݤ߾ ࢽࢂࠪח ࢇձ ੼ଥ ੋۢଞ ,ˈۼҚˈ ʠչԻ Ο .ଞ؆Ѧ ૡ୘ձ ࡢଥ ϠԯବЬ"ˈ ֆବЬ

Ձଞ ଞ؆Ѧٸ Χٖࢽۘୣжࡶ ʎফବˈ, ׵˲ࡶ 26·5 ؀ Ԝִ۰ "̐ ʼ˕ 4·27̐ Қࡶ оۘࡳԻ ଞ؆Ѧ ૡ୘˱঵ࡶ ࡢଞ Ϡԯࡶ ࢶ̑ ঴ऑବЬ"ִ۰˲ض࣯ Ԝଞ Ϡԯࡵ ফটࢂ ٖ׵ࢽۘୣжࡶ ࢇΏ߭ηˈ, ଞ؆Ѧ ૡ୘ձ ࡢଞ ࣸࢢ࢕̐" ࠇଟࡶ ଥ࠱Ь"ˈ ʈ࣏ବЬ.

ࠒࡶ ࡢଞ Ϡԯࡵ ࢷء ࢂࡕࡵ "оଞ׷˲ ׷࣯к ࢽٕࢂ ૡ୘ࠪ ੼ࢊ, ଞ؆Ѧ ؃ ୘ࠪض ࠒࡶ ࡢଞ ̟"ࢇԂֲ "ֻҘ ࢽкҚࢇ ࢽ৔ ୚ˁࢂءૡ୘ࠪ ˓Ѱ ˃ۿ ࠒࡳԻء ୣЕ ૡ୘ࠪی߷ࢇ ࢊ˗Ѹʯ ࢉզ ؿ૜ࢶ ɼ৔ձ ঴˱ଞЬִ ˲ࢿ˃˗ .Ο߅ʀ ʨࢇԂˈ ୙ݦଞЬ"ˈ ؉ୈЬ

ࢂࡕࡵ ߔ۰ ࢷΤ(24 ࢊ)߾Е ICAPP দୣ߾ ॳ۱ଞ զָ۴ ٖଞ ϠѰк ؃ ࢿٕ ٕٕࢠࡶ փΟ Χٖ˲ୣୣж ঴ऑࡶ ࡢଥ Ϡԯଜ࢕ˈ ࢂʺࡶ ֻࡳ̛Ѧ˲ ବЬ.

্ ˲ICAPP ߾ ଞ ءࢊ ࢊࢽࡳԻ ऑଭѸЕ ࢇ 4 ؃ ଞ૜, ࠝЕ 27 ࢊ̧ए 3 հ׵Ԏк ࢇ୊ୱ·ଜ੓ˁ؂ ,ࢢ୎ ࢂࡕ؃·ۿࢂࡕ˕ ଡ͉ ׷࣯к ࠝࢿ ؃ о૲ԻЕ .ࢂࡕࢇ ॳ۱ବЬ

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(Press Release) ICAPP Secretariat Assumes the Role of Common Secretariat of Political Parties of Asia, Latin America and Africa

- Outcomes of the 10th Meeting of the ICAPP General Assembly (GA) in Moscow

The 10th Meeting of the ICAPP GA in Moscow on 24-27 October yielded a number of fruitful outcomes. The ICAPP received strong political support through President Putin’s message and Prime Minister Medvedev’s presence, with his delivery of encouraging remarks at the Closing Session.

The ICAPP has further improved its performance in various ways, broadening the scope of the agenda and improving the effective management of the meetings. As a result the ICAPP members were able to reach a common understanding and adopt the enclosed comprehensive package of documents: the Moscow Declaration, four Statements on the Media Forum, Women's Wing, Youth Wing, and Trilateral Meeting among the ICAPP-COPPPAL-CAPP respectively.

In particular, members of the ICAPP, the Permanent Conference of Political Parties of Latin America and the Caribbean (COPPPAL) and the Council of African Political Parties (CAPP), considering the importance of effective cooperation, agreed to endorse the ICAPP Secretariat and Secretary General assuming the expanded role of serving as the Common Secretariat and Secretary General of political parties in Asia, Latin America and Africa. The ICAPP Secretariat and the Secretary General are expected to greatly contribute to the further strengthening of the close coordination with the COPPPAL and the CAPP.

Since the establishment of the Asia-Europe Political Forum in 2017, the ICAPP has been maintaining political dialogues with political parties in Europe. In light of such positive developments the ICAPP Secretariat will be able to broaden its activities to political parties in North America and seek to create a new format of relations with political parties of the United States and Canada in the near future.

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Furthermore, the ICAPP has upgraded its status by becoming a strategic partner of UNESCO and of the Global Green Growth Institute (GGGI). The ICAPP signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the GGGI on 1st November 2018 and is expected to conclude a Cooperation Agreement with UNESCO in early December 2018. Both of the UN affiliated institutions recognize the ICAPP as an international organization of political parties of independent states.

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Introduction of the ICAPP

1. Brief Introduction of the ICAPP

The International Conference of Asian Political Parties (ICAPP) was launched in Manila in September 2000 to promote exchanges and cooperation between political parties with various ideologies from different Asian countries; to enhance mutual understanding and trust among Asian countries; to promote Asia’s regional cooperation through dialogues and common programs among political parties, and to foster environment for solid peace, shared prosperity and diverse cultural exchanges in the region and beyond.

Since its inception, the ICAPP has grown steadily in both membership and influence. By bringing together Asia’s political leaders in regular fraternal assemblies, the ICAPP has become a valuable platform for mutual understanding among peoples of Asian countries and beyond. As of May 2018, more than 352 political parties in 52 countries in the region with diverse political and ideological backgrounds are eligible to participate in ICAPP activities. The ICAPP will be able to contribute to works of global multilateral institutions such as the UN and UNESCO, based on its unique characteristics and potentials as follows:

First, the ICAPP is a constructive and visionary network of political parties, both ruling and in opposition. The ruling parties participating in ICAPP are responsible for forming the governments in their respective countries. These ruling parties are inter-connected with the governments and virtually be identified as the governments. The political parties in opposition also champion alternative policies, platforms, and agendas, sometimes together with a shadow cabinet, thus influencing and engaging substantively in the activities of the governments. Thus, political parties constitute part and parcel of the government, and the ICAPP is characterized as a kind of the intergovernmental organization of independent states.

Second, the ICAPP has been strengthened with its solid and efficiently managed structure of the General Assembly, Standing Committee, its affiliated bodies, such as Youth Wing, Women’s Wing, Media Forum and Asian Cultural Council, and Special Conferences. Nine General Assemblies of the ICAPP, which have been successfully held in Manila (2000), Bangkok (2002), Beijing (2004), Seoul (2006), Astana (2009), Phnom Penh (2010), Baku (2012), Colombo (2014) and Kuala Lumpur (2016), brought together political leaders throughout the region to exchange opinions and communicate with one another. The 10th General Assembly was held in Moscow in Russia in October 24-27, 2018. In particular, it was agreed that the ICAPP Secretary General will be in charge of coordination among three continents as well as developing ties with North America. The ICAPP Standing Committee is comprised of the leading political parties of 23 countries representing different sub-regions of Asia. Currently, a total of 38 political parties, both ruling and opposition, are represented in the Standing Committee. The committee has been meeting regularly, more than twice a year since 2004, to organize the ICAPP activities and programs in an effective and concerted manner.

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Third, following the decision of the Standing Committee meeting in 2008, the 10th meeting of the General Assembly in 2009 approved establishing the ICAPP Secretariat office in Seoul, the ROK. Thanks to the outstanding management by the Secretariat, devoted far-reaching activities of the Secretary General and the full budgetary support of the ROK government for the Secretariat office, the ICAPP has been able to develop and expand their activities with accumulated records and high level efficiency.

Fourth, the ICAPP, originating in Asia, has been trying to reach out to other regions in the world, especially to Latin America, Africa and Europe. In recent years, the ICAPP has been trying to reach out to other regions in the world. For instance, the first joint session with the COPPPAL, the Permanent Conference of Political Parties in Latin America and the Caribbean, was successfully held in Buenos Aires in July 2009. Since then, the ICAPP and COPPPAL have been holding joint sessions annually: the second meeting in Phnom Penh (2010), the third meeting in Mexico City (2012), the fourth meeting in Baku (2013) and the fifth meeting again in Mexico City (2014).

In addition, the ICAPP and the COPPPAL have successfully coordinated efforts to help political parties in Africa establish a similar organization. As a result, the Council of African Political Parties (CAPP) was finally launched in Khartoum, Sudan, in April 2013. The first Conference of the CAPP held in Khartoum was attended by representatives of 35 political parties from five different sub-regions in Africa.

The ICAPP hosted the first Trilateral Conference among political parties in Asia, Africa and Latin America in April 2016. At the conference, the participants reaffirmed their commitment to the intent and spirit of the U.N. Charter for international peace and cooperation. In particular, they agreed to “urge their respective governments and parliaments to ratify immediately the Paris Agreement on Climate Change of 2016.” On July 9th 2017, the first Meeting of the Asia Europe Political Forum (AEPF) was held in Seoul, Korea, after the full discussion between the ICAPP and political groups of the European Parliament with its desirability to enhance the mutual understanding and cooperation. The first Meeting of the Political Forum with the European Parliament was attended by 28 Standing Committee members of the ICAPP and 11 European representatives from 3 political groups in European Parliament. Seoul Statement was adopted during the meeting, and the second Meeting was held in London, United Kingdom, during May 17-20, 2018.

Fifth, as part of efforts to strengthen ICAPP’s character as an intergovernmental institution, a “Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) on Cooperation to Support the Activities of the ICAPP” has been signed by the governments of eleven countries, i.e. Azerbaijan, Bangladesh, Cambodia, China, Iran, Kazakhstan, Republic of Korea, Mongolia, Nepal, Sri Lanka and Vietnam. More governments may be able to join the MOU.

Finally, the ICAPP could be an effective tool in delivering the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development adopted by the U.N. General Assembly in 2015, by strengthening

238 Introduction of the ICAPP the means of implementation and revitalizing the global partnership for sustainable development. The SDG outcome document and UNESCO Executive Board’s decision specifically acknowledge the essential role of national parliaments for the success of the UNSDGs through their enactment of legislation and adoption of budgets. Given that parliaments are composed of representatives of political parties, enhanced awareness and increased participation of political parties representing the grassroots voices will translate into effective implementation of the UNSDGs as well as UNESCO’s conventions and recommendations.

______In 2008, the ICAPP Standing Committee agreed to establish the ICAPP Secretariat in Seoul, Korea, and nominated Mr. Chung Eui-yong, then Member of the National Assembly of Korea and Former Ambassador, as Co-Chairman of the ICAPP Standing Committee and Secretary General of the ICAPP, which was endorsed at the 5th General Assembly in 2009. Since January 2018, Amb. Park Ro-byug was appointed as Sectary General. The ICAPP Secretariat can be reached by email at [email protected]. More detailed information on the ICAPP and its activities can be found on its website at www.theicapp.org.

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2. ICAPP Charter

(As adopted at the 4th General Assembly on September 10, 2006 and amended at the 5th General Assembly on September 26, 2009, amended at the 7th General Assembly on November 23, 2012 and amended at the 8th General Assembly on September 19, 2014)

PREAMBLE

We, the leaders and representatives of political parties in Asia, gathered for the Fourth General Assembly of the International Conference of Asian Political Parties (hereinafter referred to as the “ICAPP”) in Seoul, Republic of Korea, from September 7 to 10, 2006,

UPHOLDING the United Nations’ Charter, and the principles of mutual respect for territorial integrity and sovereignty, mutual non-aggression, mutual non-interference in each other’s internal affairs, equality and mutual benefit, and peaceful co-existence;

RECOGNIZING the immense potential of Asia to become the political, economic, and social center of the global stage in the twenty first century if permanent peace and shared prosperity is achieved in the region

REALIZING that challenges in Asia can be more efficiently and effectively addressed if the political leaders of the region unite through sustained dialogue by building mutual confidence and fellowship, by seeking political consensus through consultation and sharing of experiences, and by developing common political strategies

RECALLING that a regularly held gathering of political leaders in the region is an effective tool in seeing the potential of Asia become a reality since it fosters such sustained dialogue

HAVING HELD the First General Assembly of the ICAPP in September 2000 in Manila, Republic of the Philippines, followed by the Second and Third General Assemblies in Bangkok, Kingdom of Thailand in November 2002 and Beijing, People’s Republic of China in September 2004, respectively

DO HEREBY PROCLAIM that the Articles set forth in this Charter shall govern the objectives, institutional arrangements, and activities of the ICAPP.

ARTICLES

CHAPTER I. OBJECTIVES

Article 1

The objectives of the ICAPP shall be: a. to promote exchanges and cooperation between political parties with various ideologies in Asia; b. to enhance mutual understanding and trust among the peoples and countries in the region; c. to promote regional cooperation through the unique role and channel of political parties and d. to create an environment for sustained peace and shared prosperity in the region.

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CHAPTER II. MEMBERSHIP

Article 2

1. The ICAPP shall be open to political parties in Asia with democratically elected members in the parliaments of their respective countries, which are Member States of the United Nations.

2. Under certain circumstances, the Standing Committee of the ICAPP (hereinafter referred to as the “Standing Committee”) may decide to extend invitations to organizations or groups, which do not fulfill the criteria above, to participate in the activities of the ICAPP, as Observers, including attending the General Assembly of the ICAPP (hereinafter referred to as the “General Assembly”), in the interests of rendering the activities of the ICAPP more inclusive and representative of the diversities existing in Asia.

Article 3

1. For the purposes of this Charter, the term “parliament” shall mean any national body performing legislative functions of that country. The term “political party” shall mean any political organization which has been legally formed and recognized in the respective countries.

CHAPTER III. GENERAL ASSEMBLY

Article 4

1. In furtherance of the objectives of the ICAPP, as prescribed in Article 1 of this Charter, a General Assembly shall be held once every two (2) years on a rotational basis among its members, unless otherwise decided by the Standing Committee. It shall be held, in principle, for three (3) working days in the latter half of the year.

2. The General Assembly shall be, in principle, composed of the following program: a. Opening Ceremony; b. Plenary Session and Thematic Committee meetings; c. Special Workshops and other events upon the approval of the Standing Committee d. Standing Committee meetings; and e. Closing Ceremony

Article 5

1. All members interested in hosting the following General Assembly shall submit written notification to the Standing Committee before the conclusion of the previous General Assembly.

2. The venue and the host(s) for the following General Assembly shall be determined by consensus at the Standing Committee meeting.

Article 6

1. The main theme and up to three (3) sub themes of the General Assembly, which are consistent with the objectives of the ICAPP, shall be proposed by the host(s) and approved by the Standing Committee.

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2. The main theme of the General Assembly shall be discussed at the Plenary Session. The sub themes of the General Assembly shall be discussed at the Thematic Committee meetings.

3. Any member may submit proposals for the main theme and sub themes of the General Assembly to the Standing Committee. Such proposals must be made in writing before the conclusion of the previous General Assembly.

4. In addition to the Plenary Session and the Thematic Committee meetings held during the General Assembly, special workshops on specific issues, which are relevant to the ICAPP, may be held upon the approval of the Standing Committee.

Article 7

1. The Bureau of the General Assembly (hereinafter referred to as the “Bureau”) shall be comprised of one (1) Chairperson and up to five (5) Vice Chairpersons for the Plenary Session, and (1) Chairperson and up to three (3) Vice Chairpersons for each Thematic Committee meeting. The list of candidates for the Bureau will be prepared by the Standing Committee and recommended to the General Assembly for its approval at the Opening Ceremony by consensus.

2. The Chairpersons of the Plenary Session and the Thematic Committee meetings shall prepare the list of speakers at the Plenary Sessions and Thematic Committee meetings in accordance with the order of application or request from the members.

3. In case that the General Assembly is co-hosted by two or more number of political parties of a country, the Bureau of the General Assembly may be comprised of Co- Chairpersons.

Article 8

1. The political party, or parties, hosting the General Assembly shall bear the primary expenses of the General Assembly.

2. The primary expenses include logistical arrangements for the General Assembly, i.e., conference facilities, domestic transportation, etc. The primary expenses shall not include, inter alia, international transportation to and from the location of the General Assembly.

3. For the purposes of holding the General Assembly, the political party, or parties, hosting the General Assembly may seek voluntary contributions from members of the ICAPP and other organizations.

CHAPTER IV. STANDING COMMITTEE

Article 9

1. A Standing Committee, composed of the representatives of political parties of not exceeding twenty-three (23) countries in the region, shall be established.

2. The Members of the Standing Committee, who will serve for two years from the end of a General Assembly until the end of the following General Assembly, shall be nominated at the Standing Committee held on the margins of the General Assembly and approved by the General Assembly.

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3. Members of the Standing Committee shall actively participate in all ICAPP activities and programs. If a member, or his or her designated representative from the same political party, fails to attend the Standing Committee meetings for more than two (2) consecutive times, without providing reasonable cause of absence, the membership of the party in the Standing Committee may be revoked by the decision of the Standing Committee.

4. The membership in the Standing Committee may be shared by up to two (2) principal political parties from each country, which is invited to the Standing Committee, with equal status and responsibility.

Article 10

1. The Standing Committee will make decisions on the venue, main theme, and sub themes of the General Assembly as provided in Article 6. Additionally, it shall lay out the procedures of the Plenary Session and Thematic Committee meetings and any other matters as outlined in this Charter.

2. For the purposes of performing its duties, as prescribed in the foregoing, the Standing Committee meeting shall be held at least once a year, including its meetings during the General Assembly.

Article 11

1. One (1) Chairperson and one (1) Vice Chairperson of the Standing Committee shall be elected by consensus of the members of the Standing Committee during the General Assembly. The Chairperson shall serve for two (2) years or until the next General Assembly is held.

2. The Chairperson shall preside over the Standing Committee meetings, held pursuant to Article 10 of this Charter, and represent the ICAPP during the period between the General Assemblies.

3. In the event that the Chairperson is no longer able to serve his or her term before its completion, the Vice Chairperson will assume the position until the following Standing Committee meeting is held.

CHAPTER V. SECRETARIAT

Article 12

The Secretariat of the ICAPP shall be established to execute the following functions, among others:

1. to maintain and update the list of the political parties in the region, a database for the ICAPP activities and the official website(www.theicapp.org);

2. to provide necessary information and assistance to the members of the ICAPP, in particular the members of the Standing Committee and the host of the General Assembly in assuming their roles in the ICAPP activities; and

3. to establish contacts and promote cooperation with other international or regional organizations of political parties, and other international or regional parliamentary organizations.

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Article 13

1. The Secretariat shall comprise a Secretary General and such staff as the ICAPP activities may require. The Secretary General shall be appointed by the Standing Committee. The appointment shall be subject to confirmation at the General Assembly. 2. The Secretary General shall act in that capacity in all ICAPP meetings and perform such other functions as are entrusted by the General Assembly and/or the Standing Committee.

CHAPTER VI: AMENDMENTS

Article 14

1. Proposals to amend this Charter shall be made in writing and submitted to the Chairperson of the Standing Committee at least three (3) months in advance prior to the commencement of the General Assembly.

2. The Chairperson of the Standing Committee shall, without delay, communicate such proposal(s) to the members of the Standing Committee who shall then review the proposals and present a joint report with recommendation(s) to the following General Assembly.

3. The proposal(s) shall be reviewed and adopted as amendment(s) to the Charter by the consensus of the General Assembly.

CHAPTER VII: WORKING LANGUAGE

Article 15

1. The working language of the ICAPP shall be English.

2. During the General Assembly, however, if any member provides his or her own simultaneous interpreter(s) from his or her native language to English, the host(s) of the meeting will provide facilities for simultaneous interpretation. G G G G G G G G G G G G G G G G

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Major Understandings and Decisions reached at ICAPP Standing Committee Meetings

1. 5th SC Meeting in Seoul during June 1-3, 2006

- The Members agreed to extend invitations to political parties in the Palestinian National Authority in an effort to render the ICAPP activities more inclusive and representative of the diversities existing in the region.

2. 7th SC Meeting in Seoul during February 23-24, 2007

- Hon. Chung Eui-yong, Chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee of the Uri Party of the Republic of Korea, was elected Co-Chairman of the Standing Committee.

- The Members agreed to invite the Liberal Party of Australia, the Justice and Development Party (AK Parti) of Turkey and the United Russian Party of the Russian Federation as new members of the SC.

3. 8th SC Meeting in Tehran during November 22-23, 2007

- The Members agreed that the following two criteria would be applied to the political parties in Asia to be eligible for invitation to the future ICAPP activities, including the General Assemblies; (1) Political parties which have more than one percent of elected seats in their national parliaments; or (2) Political parties which have won more than one percent of popular votes in their latest national parliamentary elections, as certified and recognized by their national election commissions.

4. 10th SC Meeting in Astana during March 27-28, 2009

- The budget and personnel to implement the functions of the ICAPP Secretariat shall be initially provided by the host country. Issues relating to the further budget and personnel of the Secretariat will continue to be discussed in the Standing Committee.

- The Members agreed to establish the ICAPP Secretariat in Seoul, Republic of Korea. And Co-Chairman Chung Eui-yong formally accepted the nomination made at the 9th SC Meeting to assume the position of Secretary General of the ICAPP as of January 1, 2009.

5. 11th SC Meeting in Astana during September 24-28, 2009

- The Members agreed that the decision not to invite certain eligible political parties to the ICAPP General Assembly can be made only by the consensus of the Standing Committee.

6. 13th SC Meeting in Kunming on July 16, 2010

- The Members agreed that all representatives of the political parties at ICAPP Meetings should refrain from raising any issues directly related to bilateral conflicts

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or disputes among the countries in the region. It was highly recommended, however, to seek direct dialogue among political parties in the concerned countries to promote understanding and prevent such conflicts or disputes from getting further aggravated.

- The Members agreed to recommend to all members of the Standing committee to adopt the similar arrangement reached between the two main political parties in Japan and Korea that as long as they retain membership in the ICAPP SC, the representative of the political party with the largest number of seats in their respective Parliament at the time would represent Japan or Korea at the SC as its member, while the representative of the political party with second largest number of seats in the Parliament would attend the SC meetings as observers. They agreed that such formula in the SC membership will make the ICAPP activities more inclusive and credible.

- The Members endorsed the establishment of the ICAPP Medical Emergency Forum (IMEF), as proposed by the UMNO at the 12th SC Meeting.

7. 14th SC Meeting in Phnom Penh during December 1-3, 2010

- The Members elected Hon. Mushahid Hussain Sayed, Secretary General of the Pakistan Muslim League-Q, as Special Rapporteur of the Standing Committee.

- The Members agreed to the new list of the eighteen political parties from eighteen countries whose representatives would compose the new Standing Committee; i.e. Australia, Azerbaijan, Bahrain, Cambodia, China, India, Indonesia, Iran, Japan, Kazakhstan, Republic of Korea, Malaysia, Nepal, Pakistan, Philippines, Russian Federation, Turkey and Vietnam.

- The Members endorsed the Secretariat’s proposal to seek observer status in the U.N. General Assembly (UNGA) and agreed to request their respective governments to co-sponsor the draft resolution in the UNGA.

8. 16th SC Meeting in Seoul during October 27-30, 2011

- The Members agreed to establish the ICAPP Youth Wing to help young politicians explore and strengthen their capabilities as political leaders. They also welcomed the proposal to establish the ICAPP Media Forum and agreed to form a working group to discuss how to set up the media forum.

- The Members also agreed to establish the ICAPP Women’s Wing to further strengthen the role of women in politics in the region.

9. 17th SC Meeting in Baku during June 21-23, 2012

- The Members agreed to establish the ICAPP-COPPPAL Economic Council and the ICAPP Committee on Climate Change.

- In this regard, the Members agreed that the ICAPP-affiliated groups, including the ICAPP Youth Wing, ICAPP Women’s Wing and the IMEF, should remain under the

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umbrella of the ICAPP Standing Committee and their activities should be fully consistent with the objectives and principles of the ICAPP.

10. 18th SC Meeting in Baku on November 21, 2012

- The Members agreed to increase the number of SC Members from eighteen to twenty-two and to invite political parties from Bangladesh, Lebanon, Mongolia, Myanmar and Thailand as new SC members. They agreed to revoke the membership of Bahrain in accordance with the ICAPP Charter.

11. 19th SC Meeting in Hanoi during April 22-24, 2013

- The Members endorsed the Secretariat’s proposal to conclude an inter-governmental Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to provide support for the ICAPP activities and agreed to recommend their respective governments to sign the MOU.

12. 23rd SC Meeting in Colombo on September 18, 2014

- The Members agreed to increase the number of SC members to twenty-three and to invite Sri Lanka as new a member. They also agreed to amend the ICAPP Charter to allow up to two principal political parties in the member countries to be represented in the Standing Committee.

- The Members elected Hon. Sok An, Deputy Prime Minister, Minister in charge of the Office of the Council of Ministers, and Representative of the Cambodian People’s Party as Vice Chairman of the Standing Committee.

- The Members reconfirmed that consensus-building, or unanimous decision-making, is one of the main pillars of the ICAPP and the ICAPP should continue to abide by this principle in its future activities.

13. 24th SC Meeting in Kuala Lumpur on February 28 – March 3, 2015

- The Members agreed to change the name of the group from the IMEF to the ICAPP Program for Disasters Assistance (IPDA) to correctly represent the intended direction and scope of the group’s activities.

14. 28th SC Meeting in Seoul on July 7, 2017

- The Members agreed to invite the Islamic Labour Party of Iran as a new member of the SC with the agreement and recommendation of the Islamic Motalefeh Party of Iran.

- The Members endorsed the Terms of Reference (ToR) for the Asian Cultural Council, which was prepared by Cambodia in consultation with China, Nepal, and Russia.

- The Members agreed to increase the number of Bureau Members of the SC to five and elected Hon. Hor Namhong, Deputy Prime Minister and Former Foreign Minister of Cambodia, Hon. Zheng Xiaosong, Vice Minister of the International

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Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, and Hon. Mushahid Hussain Sayed, Secretary General of the Pakistan Muslim League-Q of Pakistan, respectively, as Vice Chairman of the Standing Committee.

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3. MEMBERS OF THE ICAPP STANDING COMMITTEE

(As of November 2018)G Bureau of the Standing Committee Hon. Jose de VENECIA, Jr. G Hon. CHUNG Eui-yong ൘Founding Chairman and Chairman of the ൘Co-Chairman of the Standing Committee Standing Committee ൘Director of National Security for President, ൘Former Speaker of the House of Representatives Republic of Korea of the Philippines

Hon. KHUON Sudary Hon. GUO Yezhou ൘Vice Chairperson of the Standing Committee ൘Vice Chairman of the Standing Committee ൘Member of Standing Committee of the ൘Vice Minister of the International Department of Cambodian People’s Party and Deputy Speaker the Central Committee of the Communist Party of of the National Assembly of Cambodia China G Hon. Mushahid HUSSAIN SAYED Hon. PARK Ro-byug ൘Vice Chairman and Special Rapporteur of the ൘Secretary General of the ICAPP Secretariat Standing Committee ൘Former Ambassador of Republic of Korea to ൘Chairman of Central Media Committee, Pakistan Russia, Republic of Korea Muslim League-N ൘Chairman, Senate Defense Committee, Pakistan Members (by alphabetical order of the name of country) G Hon. Shane L. STONE Hon. Ali Javad AHMADOV ൘Assistant Chairman of International Democratic ൘Deputy Prime Minister Union G ൘Deputy Chairman of New Azerbaijan Party, ൘Former Federal President of the Liberal Party of Azerbaijan AustraliaG

G Hon. Abdul Matin KHASRU Hon. Hussain Muhammad ERSHAD ൘Member of the ParliamentG ൘President of Jatiya Party ൘Member of the Presidium, Bangladesh Awami ൘Former President of Bangladesh G LeagueG ൘Former Minister of Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs, BangladeshG HRH Samdech Krom Preah Hon. Vijay JOLLY Norodom Ranariddh ൘President of Delhi Study Group Bharatiya Janata ൘Former First Prime MinisterG ൘Senior Indian Party (BJP) ൘Former Chairman of the National Assembly, and Leader, India President of FUNCINPEC Party, Cambodia G Hon. Karan SINGH Hon. Andreas PAREIRA ൘Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Department of ൘Member of Parliament the Indian National Congress, India ൘Chairperson in charge of Human Development and Culture, Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P), Indonesia G Hon. Theo L. SAMBUAGA Hon. Prof. Dr. Hassan Ghafoori FARD ൘Vice Chairman, Patron Council of Golkar Party ൘Founding President, Foundation for Islamic ൘Former Minister of Man Power and Former DevelopmentG Minister of Housing and Settlement,GIndonesia ൘Member of the Central Committee of Islamic Motalefeh Party G ൘Former Vice President of Iran Hon. Mohammad Reza Sarmadi Hon. Motohiro Oono ൘Deputy Secretary General of International ൘Director-General of the International Department, Relations and Member of the Central Committee Democratic Party For the People (DPFP) of Islamic Labour Party, Iran ൘Member of the House of Councillors, Japan G

Hon. Maulen ASHIMBAYEV Hon. PARK Young-sun ൘First Deputy Chairman of Nur Otan Party of ൘Member of the National Assembly, and Former KazakhstanG Chairperson and Floor Leader of The Minjoo (Democracy) Party, Republic of Korea

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Hon. Dr. LEE Hye-hoon Hon. Youssef AWAD ൘Member of the National Assembly and Former ൘Coordinator for Asia and Overseas, Free Patriotic Chairperson of the Bareun (Righteous) Party, Movement Party of Lebanon Bareunmirae Party, Republic of Korea G

G Hon. Fadi FAWAZ Hon. Dato Seri Shahidan bin KASSIM ൘Advisor for Development Affairs to Hon. Saad ൘Former Minister in the Office of Prime Minister Hariri, Former Prime Minister and Chairman of and Member of the Supreme Council, United Future Movement Party of Lebanon Malay National Organization, Malaysia

G Hon. Dato' Dr. Hou Kok Chung Hon. Baigal LUVSANCHULTEM ൘Vice President of Malaysian Chinese Association ൘Chairman of General Control Committee, (MCA) and Senator Democratic Party of Mongolia ൘Chairman of Institute of Strategic Analysis & Policy Research (INSAP), Malaysia G Hon.GMunkhjin Batsumber Hon. U Mahn Jonny ൘G Head of the Office for International ൘Member of Parliament-Pyithuhluttaw and Member Cooperation, Mongolian People’s Party, of Central Committee, National League for Mongolia Democracy (NLD), Myanmar

G Hon. U Wunna Maung Lwin Hon. Jhalanath KHANAL ൘G Member of the Central Executive Committee in ൘Senior Leader of the Communist Party (UML) charge of International Relations Committee, ൘Former Prime Minister, Nepal Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP),and Former Minister for Foreign Affairs of Myanmar Hon. Sujata KOIRALA Hon. Nuzhat SADIQ ൘Head of International Department of the Nepali ൘Senator and Chairperson of Foreign Affairs Congress Party Committee ൘Member of Parliament, and Former Deputy ൘Head of Women’s Wing of Pakistan Muslim Prime Minister and Foreign Minister of Nepal League(PML)-N, Pakistan

Hon. Andrey KLIMOV Hon. Daya GAMAGE ൘Member of the Presidium of the General Council ൘Senior Deputy Chairman of the United National of the United Russia Party Party (UNP) ൘Member of the Council of Federation, Russia ൘Minister of Social Welfare and Primary Industries, Sri LankaG

Hon. Dilan PERERA G Hon. Dr. Nalinee TAVEESIN ൘Assistant Secretary of the Sri Lanka Freedom ൘Former Thailand Trade RepresentativeG Party (SLFP) ൘Former Minister Attached to the Prime ൘Member of the Parliament, Sri Lanka Minister’s Office Pheu Thai ൘ Party of Thailand Hon. Chamni SAKDISET Hon. Cevet YILMAZ ൘Former Deputy Party Leader of the Democrat ൘Chairman for Foreign Affairs of the Justice and Party of Thailand Development Party (AK Parti), Turkey G

Hon. NGUYEN Manh Cuong Liberal Democratic Party/New Komeito Party of ൘Vice Chairman of the Commission for External JapanG Relations of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Vietnam G

G G

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Bureau Members of the ICAPP Asian Cultural Council (2017-2019)

G G G G G G G G G Co-Chairpersons G G G Hon. KHUON Sudary G G G G ൘Vice Chairperson of the Standing Committee G G G ൘Member of Standing Committee of the Cambodian People’s Party, Cambodia G G G G G G G G G Vice-Chairpersons G G G Hon. GUO Yezhou Hon. Sujata KOIRALA G G G ൘Vice Chairman of the Standing Committee ൘Head of International Department of the ೛Vice Minister of the International Nepali Congress Party G G G Department of the Central Committee of the ൘Member of Parliament, and Former Deputy G G G Communist Party of China Prime Minister and Foreign Minister of Nepal G G G Hon. Andrey KLIMOV G G G ൘Member of the Presidium of the General G Council of the United Russia Party G G G ൘Member of the Council of Federation, G G G Russia G G G G G G G G G G G G G G G G G G G G G G G G G G G G G G G G G G G G G G G G G G G G G G G G G G G G G G G G G G G G G G G G G G G

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Bureau Members of the Asia-Europe Political Forum

G G Co-Chairpersons G Hon. KHUON Sudary Hon. Geoffrey Van Orden G ൘Vice Chairperson of the Standing Committee ൘MEP and Vice-Chairman of the ECR Group, G ൘Member of Standing Committee of the United Kingdom Cambodian People’s Party, Cambodia ൘European Conservatives and Reformists Group G Vice Chair G G Vice-Chairpersons G Hon. Dr. Lee Hye-hoon Hon. Ryszard Czarnecki G ൘Member of the National Assembly and ൘MEP and Vice President of the Parliament, Bareun G Chairperson of (Righteous) Party, Republic of Poland Republic of Korea ൘European Conservatives and Reformists G Group Member G G Hon. Daya Gamage Hon. Ulrike Trebesius ൘Minister of Primary Industries, Member of ൘MEP and Chief Whip of the ECR Group, G Parliament and Senior Deputy Chairman of Federal Republic of Germany G the United National Party (UNP), Sri ൘European Conservatives and Reformists G Lanka Group Member of the Bureau G Hon. Dr. Nalinee Taveesin G ൘Former Minister attached to Prime Minister’s G Office, Former Thailand Trade epresentative, Pheu Thai G G Party, Kingdom of ThailandG G G G G G G G G G G G G G G G G G G G

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Bureau Members of the ICAPP Media Forum

G G Co-Chairpersons G Hon. Park Young-sun G Hon. Roger Oriel G ൘Member of the National Assembly, ൘Publisher-editor of “Asian Journal” Group, G and Former Republic of the Philippines Chairperson and Floor Leader of The Minjoo G (Democracy) Party, Republic of Korea G G Vice-Chairpersons G Hon. Vijay Jolly Hon. Youssef Awad Bharatiya Janata G ൘Senior Leader of Party ൘Coordinator for Asia and Overseas, Free (BJP), Former Global Convenor of BJP, Patriotic G President of Delhi Study Group in MLA Movement Party, Lebanese Republic Delhi Assembly, and Co-Chairman of G International Association of Parliamentarians G for Peace (IAPP), Republic of India G Hon. Kim Chang-gi Mr. Huy Vannak ൘Publisher / Executive Editor of Monthly ൘Director of Union of Journalist Federations of G Chosun and Chosun Weekly, and Cambodia, Kingdom of Cambodia G Chairman of the Board of Shinyoung Fund of Kwanhun Journalists Club, G Republic of Korea G Mrs. Merve Sebnem Oruc Mr. Yoon Tae-hyung G ൘Columnist,TV Moderator, Managing Editor ൘Editor of Politics Desk of News1, Republic of G (Yeni Sabah, Daily Sabah), Republic of Korea Turkey G G G G G G G G G G G G G G G G G G G G

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Bureau Members of the ICAPP Womenğs Wing (2016-2018)

G G

G G Co-Chairpersons G Hon. Sujata Koirala Hon. Meryem Goka ൘Head of International Department of the ൘Vice Chairwoman in charge of Foreign Affairs G Nepali Congress Party for Women’s Branch, AK Parti (Justice and G ൘Member of Parliament, and Former Deputy Development Party) of Turkey G Prime Minister and Foreign Minister of Nepal G Vice-Chairpersons G Hon. Dr. Malahat Ibrahimqizi Hon. Mu Hong G ೛Member of Political Council and ೛Director General, International Department of G Chairperson of Nasimi District Branch, and the All-China Federation, Communist Party of Yeni G Member of Parliament (New) China Azerbaijan Party, Azerbaijan G G Hon. Dr. Park In-sook Hon. Nuzhat Sadiq G ೛Member of the National Assembly, Liberty ೛Senator and Chairperson of Foreign Affairs G Korea Party, Republic of Korea Committee and Head of Women’s Wing of G Pakistan Muslim League(PML)-N, Pakistan

G Hon. Anoma Gamage Hon. Dr. Nalinee Taveesin G ೛Member of Parliament and Deputy Minister ൘Former Minister attached to Prime Minister’s Office, Former Thailand Trade Representative, G of Agriculture, United National Party, Sri Pheu Thai Party, Kingdom of Thailand G Lanka G G G G G G G G G G G G G G G G G G

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Bureau Members of the ICAPP Youth Wing (2013~ )

G G G G Chairperson Deputy Chairperson G Hon. Dato Seri Shahidan bin Hon. Suos Yara G KASSIM ൘Member of Parliament and Vice-Chairman of ൘Minister in the Office of Prime Minister and Commission on Foreign Affairs, International G Member of the Supreme Council, United Cooperation, Information and Media of the G Malay National Organization, Malaysia Cambodian People’s Party, Cambodia ൘Chairperson of the ICAPP Youth Wing ൘Deputy Chairperson of the ICAPP Youth Wing G G Vice-Chairpersons G Mr. Jia Bo (Northeast Asia) Mr. Sok Sokan (Southeast Asia) G ೛ Deputy Secretary-General of the All China ൘G Deputy Secretary General of the Royal Youth Federation, Communist Party of Government, Office of the Council of G G China Ministers, Cambodian People’s Party of G Cambodia

G Dr. Rajan Bhattarai (South Asia) Mr. Ramin Mammadov G ൘G Former Adviser on Foreign Affairs to Prime (Central Asia) Minister and Member of International G ൘G Deputy Chairman of the Youth Union, Yeni G Department, Communist Party of Nepal G (New) Azerbaijan Party of Azerbaijan (UML) G G Mr. Soli Mahdi (Middle East) Dr. Tee Ching Seng G ൘Managing Director of World Forum for ൘ Committee Member of Strategic Analysis & Proximity of Islamic Schools of Thought Policy Research, Malaysian Chinese G G (WFPIST) and Youth Representative, Islamic Association (MCA), Malaysia G Motalefeh Party of Iran

G Officers G Mr. Erwin Aqsa, Chairman of the Indonesian Association GTreasurer / Finance Secretary of Entrepreneurs and Treasurer of the

G Centrist Asia Pacific Democrats

G International (CAPDI)

G Information Secretary G Mr. Mustafa Sayed, Youth Representative of PML-Q, International Committee Pakistan GMembers Mr. Le Than Tung of Vietnam and G Mr. Aldwin Requejo of the Philippines G

G G G G G G

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Bureau Members of the ICAPP-COPPPAL Business Council (2014~ )

G G G G Co-Chairpersons G Hon. Julio Millan Bojalil Tan Sri Dr. Chen Lip Keong, G ൘President, Coraza Corporation Azteca, S.A. ൘President and CEO of Naga Corp Ltd. and DE C.V. (COPPPAL) Special Advisor to the Royal Government of G Cambodia (ICAPP) G G Vice-Chairpersons G Hon. Martin Rodriguez, Hon. Mr. Erwin Aksa, G ൘Chairman, Young Business ൘Chairman of the Indonesian Association of G Association(Mexico) Entrepreneurs and Treasurer of the Centrist G Asia G Pacific Democrats International (CAPDI) G G G G G G G G G G G G G G G G G G G G G G G G G G G

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4. List of Political Parties Eligible to Participate in ICAPP Activities (346 Political Parties in 52 Countries and 1 Territory)

As of August 3, 2018

1. Afghanistan (as of September 18, 2010) : 11 1. Islamic Society (Jamiat-e Islami) (*/249) 2. People’s Islamic Unity Party of Afghanistan (Hezb-e Wahdat Mardum) (*/249) 3. National Islamic Movement of Afghanistan (Hezb-e Junbish Milli Islami) (*/249) 4. Republican Party of Afghanistan (Hezb-e Jumhori) (*/249) 5. Islamic Unity Party of Afghanistan (Hezb-e Wahdat Islami) (*/249) 6. National Islamic Front of Afghanistan (Hezb-e Mahaz Milli Islami) (*/249) 7. National Solidarity Party of Afghanistan (Hezb-e Paiwand Milli) (*/249) 8. Islamic Dawah Organization of Afghanistan (Hezb-e Tanzim Dahwat Islami) (*/249) 9. Islamic Movement of Afghanistan (Hezb-e Harakat Islami) (*/249) 10. Afghan Social Democratic Party (Hezb-e Afghan Millat) (*/249) 11. Islamic Party (Hezb-e Islami) (*/249) *Since most candidates for the Wolesi Jirga (House of the People) ran without a party affiliation on the ballot, the strength of parties in the parliament can only be estimated.

2. Armenia (as of April 2, 2017) : 8 12. Republican Party of Armenia (Hayastani Hanrapetakan Kusaktsutyun) (69/131) 13. Tsarukyan Alliance Prosperous Armenia Party, Alliance Party, Mission Party) (33/131) 14. ANC-PPA Alliance (Armenian National Congress, People’s Party of Armenia) (7/131) 15. Armenian Revolutionary Federation (Hay Heghapokhakan Dashnaktsutiun) (5/131) 16. Armenian Renaissance (5/131) 17. Ohanyan-Raffi-Oskanian(ORO) Alliance (Seyran Ohanyan,Heritage Party, Unity Party) (4/131) 18. Free Democrats Party (3/131) 19. Way Out Alliance (Bright Armenia, Republic and Civil Contract) (2/131)

3. Australia (as of July 2, 2016) : 4 20. Liberal/National Coalition (76/150) - Liberal Party of Australia (45/150) - Liberal National Party (QLD) (21/150) - National Party of Australia (10/150) - Country Liberal Party (NT) (0/150) 21. Australian Labor Party (ALP) (69/150) Eligible by size of popular votes won – 22. Australian Greens (1/150, 10.23/100) 23. Nick Xenophon Team (NXT) (1/150, 1.85/100) *Ruling Coalition: Liberal/National Coalition composed of Liberal Party, Liberal National Party, and the Nationals, claimed 76 seats in total

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4. Azerbaijan (as of November 1, 2015) : 3 24. New Azerbaijan Party (Yeni Azrbaycan Partiyas) (69/125) 25. Civil Solidarity Party (Vtnda Hmryliyi Partiyas) (2/125) Eligible by size of popular votes won – 26. Whole Azerbaijan Popular Front Party (1/125, 1.49/100)

5. Bahrain (as of November 29, 2014) : 4 27. Al-Asalah National Islamic Society (2/40) 28. Al-Menbar National Islamic Society (1/40) 29. Al-Faith Coalition (1/40) Eligible by size of popular votes won – 30. Al-Wefaq National Islamic Society (-/40)* *Al-Wefaq, the largest Shi’ite opposition party, boycotted the election

6. Bangladesh (as of January 5, 2014) : 5 31. Bangladesh Awami League (232/300) 32. Jatiya Party (34/300) 33. Workers’ Party of Bangladesh (6/300) 34. National Socialist Party (Jatiyo Samajtantrik Dal) (5/300) Eligible by size of popular votes won – 35. Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP)* *BNP, the largest opposition party, boycotted the election

7. Bhutan (as of July 13, 2013) : 2 36. People's Democratic Party (32/47) 37. Bhutan Peace and Prosperity Party (Druk Phuensum Tshogpa ) (15/47)

8. Cambodia (as of July 28, 2013) : 3 38. Cambodian People’s Party (Kanakpak Pracheachon Kâmpuchéa) (114/125) 39. FUNCINPEC Party (6/125) 40. League for Democracy Party (5/125) *Cambodian National Rescue Party (CNRP) was dissolved in November 2017

9. China : 1 41. Communist Party of China

10. Cyprus (as of May 22, 2016) : 9 42. Democratic Rally - DISY (Dimokratikós Sinayermós) (18/56) 43. Progressive Party of Working People - AKEL (Anorthotikó Kómma Ergazómenou Laoú) (16/56) 44. Democratic Party - DIKO (Dimokratikó Kómma) (9/56) 45. Movement for Social Democracy- EDEK (Kinima Sosialdimokraton Eniaia Dimokratiki Enosi Kentrou) (3/56) 46. Citizen’s Alliance (3/56) 47. Solidarity Movement (3/56) 48. Movement of Ecologists - Citizens' Cooperation (KOSP) (2/56) 49. National Popular Front (ELAM) (2/56) Eligible by size of popular votes won – 50. Animal Party Cyprus (APC) (1.16/100)

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*The House of Representatives is composed of 80 seats in total which include 56 seats assigned to Greek Cypriots and 24 to Turkish Cypriots ; however, only those assigned to Greek Cypriots are officially filled and recorded.

11. East Timor (as of Aug 02, 2017) : 4 51. Alliance for Change and Progress (AMP) (34/65) (Alliance composed of National Congress for Timorese Reconstruction (CNRT)- People's Liberation Party (PLP)- Kmanek Haburas Unidade Nasional Timor Oan (KHUNTO)) 52. Revolutionary Front for an Independent East Timor - FRETILIN (Frente Revolucionária do Timor-Leste Independente) (23/65) 53. Democratic Party (5/65) 54. Democratic Development Front (FDD) (3/65) (United Party for Development and Democracy (PUDD)–Timorese Democratic Union (UDT)–Frenti-Mudança)

12. Fiji (as of September 17, 2014) : 6 55. FijiFirst (32/50) 56. Social Democratic Liberal Party (15/50) 57. National Federation Party (NFP) (3/50) Eligible by size of popular votes won – 58. People’s Democratic Party (3.2/100) 59. Fiji Labour Party (2.4/100) 60. One Fiji Party (1.2/100)

13. Georgia (as of October 30, 2016) : 8 61. Georgian Dream – Democratic Georgia Coalition (k'art'uli ots'neba – demokratiuli sak'art'velo) (115/150) 62. United National Movement (Ertiani Natsionaluri Modzraoba, ENM) (27/150) 63. Alliance of Patriots of Georgia (6/150) Eligible by size of popular votes won – 64. Free Democrats (4.63/100) 65. Democratic Movement – United Georgia (3.53/100) 66. State for a People (3.45/100) 67. Labour Party of Georgia (3.14/100) 68. Republican Party (1.55/100)

14. India (as of May 12, 2014) : 18 69. Bharatiya Janata Party (Indian People's Party) (282/543) 70. Indian National Congress (44/543) 71. All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (37/543) 72. All India Trinamool Congress (34/543) 73. Biju Janata Dal (20/543) 74. Shiv Sena (Army of Shiv) (18/543) 75. Telugu Desam Party (Party for Telugu Land and People) (16/543) 76. Telangana Rashtra Samithi (11/543) 77. Communist Party of India (Marxist) (9/543) 78. Yuvajana Sramika Rythu Congress Party (9/543) 79. Nationalist Congress Party (6/543)

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80. Lok Janshakti Party (6/543) Eligible by size of popular votes won – 81. Bahujan Samaj Party (4.1/100) 82. Samajwadi Party (Socialist Party) (5/543; 3.4/100) 83. Aam Aadmi Party (4/543; 2.0/100) 84. Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (1.7/100) 85. Rashtriya Janata Dal (National People's Party) (4/543, 1.3/100) 86. Janata Dal (United) (2/543; 1.1/100)

15. Indonesia (as of April 9, 2014) : 11 87. Indonesian Democratic Party – Struggle (Partai Demokrasi Indonesia Perjuangan) (109/560) 88. Party of the Functional Groups - Golkar (Partai Golongan Karya) (91/560) 89. Great Indonesia Movement Party (Partai Gerakan Indonesia Raya) (73/560) 90. Democratic Party (Partai Demokrat) (61/560) 91. National Mandate Party (Partai Amanat Nasional) (49/560) 92. National Awakening Party (Partai Kebangkitan Bangsa) (47/560) 93. Prosperous Justice Party (Partai Keadilan Sejahtera) (40/560 94. United Development Party (Partai Persatuan Pembangunan) (39/560) 95. Nasdem Party (Partai Nasdem) (35/560) 96. People's Conscience Party (Partai Hati Nurani Rakyat) (16/560 Eligible by size of popular votes won – 97. Crescent Star Party (Partai Bulan Bintang) (1.46/100)

16. Iran (as of April 29, 2016) : 9 98. Islamic Society of Engineers 99. Society of Devotees of the Islamic Revolution 100. Society of Pathseekers of the Islamic Revolution 101. Combatant Clergy Association 102. Moderation and Development Party 103. Executives of Construction Party 104. Islamic Iran freedom Party 105. Progress and Justice Population of Islamic Iran 106. Development and Justice Party

17. Iraq (as of May 12, 2018) : 13 107. Alliance towards Reforms (Saairun) (54/329) 108. Fatah Alliance (Tahalof Al-Fateh) (47/329) 109. Victory Coalition (42/329) 110. Kurdistan Democratic Party (Partîya Demokrata Kurdistan) (25/329) 111. State of Law Coalition (25/329) 112. National Coalition (21/329) 113. National Wisdom Movement (19/329) 114. Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (Yeketî Nitîmanî Kurdistan) (18/329) 115. Uniters for Reform Coalition (Muttahidoon) (14/329) 116. National Movement for Development and Reform (Al-Hal) (6/329) 117. Movement for Change – Gorran (Rewtî Gorran) (5/329) 118. New General Movement (4/329)

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119. Baghdad Alliance (4/329) Eligible by size of popular votes won – 120. Civil Democratic Alliance (3/328; --/100) 121. Islamic Group of Kurdistan (Komele Islami le Kurdistan) (3/328; --/100)

18. Israel (as of March 17, 2015) : 12 122. Likud (30/120) 123. Zionist Bloc (24/120) 124. Joint List (Hadash, United Arab List, Balad, Taal)(13/120) 125. Yesh Atid (There is a Future) (11/120) 126. Kulanu / All of Us (10/120) 127. The Jewish Home (HaBayit HaYehudi) (8/120) 128. Shas Party (7/120) 129. Yisrael Beiteinu (6/120) 130. United Torah Judaism Party (6/120) 131. Meretz Party (5/120) Eligible by size of popular votes won – 132. Yachad (2.97/100) 133. Ale Yarok (1.12/100)

19. Japan (as of May 9, 2018) : 6 134. Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) (283/465) 135. Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan (CDP) (55/465) 136. Democratic Party for the People (DPFP) (39/465) 137. Komeito (29/465) 138. Japanese Communist Party (JCP) (12/465) 139. Nippon Ishin no Kai (Japan Innovation Party) (11/465)

20. Jordan (as of September 20, 2016) : 11 140. Islamic Action Front Party (10/130) 141. The Islamic Wasat Party (7/130) 142. National Union Party (7/130) 143. The National Congress Party (Zamzam) (5/130) 144. The National Current Party (4/130) 145. Justice and Reform Party (3/130) 146. The Arab Ba’ath Progressive Party (2/130) 147. The Jordanian United Front Party (1/130) 148. The National Wafa’a Party (1/130) 149. Al Awn Party (1/130) 150. Al Resalah Party (1/130)

21. Kazakhstan (as of March 20, 2016) : 5 151. People’s Democratic Party “Nur Otan” (84/98) 152. Democratic Party of Kazakhstan Ak Zhol “Bright Path” (Qazaqstan Demokratiyalyk Partiyasi Ak Zhol) (7/98) 153. Communist People’s Party of Kazakhstan (Qazaqstan Khalyk Kommunistik Partiyasi) (7/98) Eligible by size of popular votes won – 154. Kazakhstani Social Democratic Party Auyl “Village” (Auyl Sotsial-Demokratiyalyk

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Partiyasi) (2.01/100) 155. Nationwide Social Democratic Party (Zhalpyulttyk Sotsial-Demokratiyalyk Partiya) (1.18/100)

22. Kiribati (as of January 7, 2016) : 2 156. Pillars of Truth Party (Boutokaan Te Koaua) (26/46) 157. Tobwaan Kiribati Party (TKP) (19/46)

23. Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of (as of March 9, 2014): 3 158. Workers’ Party of Korea (Rodong Dang) (607/687) 159. Korean Social Democratic Party (50/687) 160. Chondoist Chongu Party (22/687)

24. Korea, Republic of (as of June 13, 2018) : 5 161. The Minjoo (Democracy) Party of Korea (130/300) 162. Liberty Korea Party (New Frontier Party) (114/300) 163. Bareunmirae Party (30/300) 164. Peace Party (14/300) 165. Justice Party (6/300)

25. Kyrgyzstan (as of October 4, 2015) : 9 166. Social Democratic Party of Kyrgyzstan (SDPK) (38/120) 167. Ata-Zhurt (28/120) 168. Kyrgyzstan Party (18/120) 169. Onuguu-Progress (13/120) 170. Bir Bol (12/120) 171. Ata-Meken Socialist Party (11/120) Eligible by size of popular votes won – 172. Butun Kyrgyzstan-Emgek (6.13/100) 173. Zamandash (2.73/100) 174. Uluu Kyrgyzstan (1.50/100)

26. Laos (as of March 20, 2016): 1 175. Lao People’s Revolutionary Party (144/149)

27. Lebanon (as of May 6, 2018) : 8 176. Amal-Hezbollah (40/128) - Amal (13/128) - Hezbollah (12/128) - Syrian Social Nationalist Party (7/128) - Dignity Movement (2/128) 177. Free Patriotic Movement (Al-Tayyar Al-Watani Al-Hur) (29/128) 178. Future Movement (Tayyar Al Mustaqbal) (20/128) 179. Lebanese Forces (Al-quwat al-lubnniyya) (15/128) 180. Progressive Socialist Party (Al-Hizb al-Taqadummi al-Ishtiraki) (9/128) 181. Azm Movement (4/128) 182. Lebanese Phalanges Party (Hizb al-Kataeb) (3/128) 183. Marada Movement (El Marada) (3/128)

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28. Malaysia (as of May 9, 2018) : 11 184. United Malays National Organization (Pertubuhan Kebangsaan Melayu Bersatu, UMNO) (54/222) 185. People's Justice Party - KeADILAN (Parti Keadilan Rakyat, PKR) (47/222) 186. Democratic Action Party (Parti Tindakan Demokratik, DAP) (42/222) 187. Malaysian Islamic Party (18/222): 188. Malaysian United Indigenous Party (PPBM) (13/222) 189. United Traditional Bumiputera Party (Parti Pesaka Bumiputera Bersatu, PBB) (13/222) 190. National Trust Party (AMANAH) (11/222) 191. Sarawak People's Party (Parti Rakyat Sarawak, PRS) (3/222) Eligible by size of popular votes won – 192. Malaysian Indian Congress (Kongres India Se-Malaysia, MIC) (2/222, 1.39/100) 193. Malaysian Chinese Association (Persatuan Cina Malaysia, MCA) (1/222, 5.30/100) 194. Sarawak United People's Party (Parti Rakyat Bersatu Sarawak, SUPP) (1/222, 1.01/100)

* Two major coalitions were formed, which are 1) Alliance of Hope-Pakatan Harapan (PKR, DAP, PPBM and AMANAH) 2) National Front-Barisan Nasional (UMNO, PBB, PRS, MIC, PDP, MCA, SUPP, PBS, UPKO, PBRS, GERAKAN, LDP and myPPP)

29. Maldives (as of March 22, 2014) : 5 195. Progressive Party of Maldives (33/85) 196. Maldivian Democratic Party (26/85) 197. Jumhooree Party (Republican Party) (15/85) 198. Maldives Development Alliance (5/85) 199. Adhaalath Party (Justice Party) (1/85) * Progressive Coalition among PPM, MDA and JP

30. Marshall Islands (as of November 16, 2015) : 2 200. Kien Eo Am Party (KEA) (23/33) 201. Aelon Kein Ad Party (AKA) (*/33)

31. Mongolia (as of July 29, 2016) : 3 202. Democratic Party (Ardchilsan Nam) (9/76) 203. Mongolian People’s Party (Mongol Ardyn Khuv'sgalt Nam) (65/76) 204. Mongolian People’s Revolutionary Party (1/76)

32. Myanmar (as of April 1, 2017) : 6 205. National League for Democracy (NLD) (254/440) 206. Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP) (30/440) 207. Arakan National Party (ANP) (13/440) 208. Shan Nationalities League for Democratic Party (SNDP) (14/440) Eligible by size of popular votes won – 209. Pa-O National Organisation (3/440, 1.00/100) 210. National Unity Party (1.87/100)

33. Nepal (as of December 7, 2017) : 7

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211. Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist-Leninist) (121/275) 212. Nepali Congress (63/275) 213. Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist Centre) (53/275) 214. Rastriya Jatantra Party-Nepal (17/275) 215. Federal Socialist Forum-Nepal (16/275) Eligible by size of popular votes won – 216. Bibeksheel Sajha Party (2.22/100) 217. Rastriya Prajatantra Party (Democratic) (1/275, 2.06/100)

34. New Zealand (as of September 23, 2017) : 4 218. National Party (56/120) 219. Labour Party (46/120) 220. New Zealand First (9/120) 221. Green Party (8/120)

35. Pakistan (as of July 25, 2018) : 11 222. Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (Pakistan Movement for Justice) (116/272) 223. Pakistan Muslim League—N (Nawaz) (64/272) 224. Pakistan People’s Party (43/272) 225. Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal (MMA: United Council of Action) (12/272) - Coalition consisted of --- 226. Muttahida Quami Movement (United National Movement) (6/272) 227. Pakistan Muslim League—Q (Quaid-i-Azam) (4/272) 228. Balochistan Awami Party (4/272) 229. Balochistan National Party (3/272) Eligible by size of popular votes won – 230. Grand Democratic Alliance (2.38/100, 2/272) 231. Awami National Party (1.53/100, 1/272) 232. Tehreek-i-Labbaik Pakistan (4.22/100)

36. Papua New Guinea (as of July 8, 2017) : 11 233. People’s National Congress Party (27/111) 234. National Alliance Party (14/111) 235. Pangu Party (11/111) 236. United Resources Party (9/111) 237. Papua New Guinea Party (6/111) 238. People's Progress Party (5/111) 239. Social Democratic Party (3/111) 240. Triumph Heritage Empowerment Rural Party (3/111) 241. National Party (2/111) 242. People’s Labour Party (2/111) 243. People's Party (2/111)

37. Philippines (as of May 9, 2016) : 8 244. Liberal Party (Partido Liberal ng Pilipinas) (115/297) 245. Nationalist People’s Coalition (NPC) (42/297) 246. Nacionalista (Nationalist Party) (24/297)

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247. National Unity Party (NUP) (23/297) 248. United Nationalist Alliance (UNA) (11/297) 249. Lakas (People Power-Christian Muslim Democrats) (4/297) 250. PDP-Laban (Philippine Democratic Party–People's Power) (3/297) Eligible by size of popular votes won – 251. Aksyon (Democratic Action) (1.38/100)

38. Russia (as of September 18, 2016) : 9 252. United Russia Party (Yedinaya Rossiya) (343/450) 253. Communist Party of Russian Federation (Kommunisticheskaya Partiya Rossiskoy Federatsii) (42/450) 254. Liberal Democratic Party of Russia (Liberal'no-Demokraticheskaya Partiya Rossii) (39/450) 255. A Just Russia Party (Spravedlivaya Rossiya) (23/450) Eligible by size of popular votes won – 256. Communists of Russia (2.27/100) 257. Russian United Democratic Party - Yabloko (Rossiyskaya obyedinyonnaya demokraticheskaya partiya Yabloko"" )(1.99/100) 258. Russian Party of Pensioners for Justice (1.73/100) 259. Motherland-National Patriotic Union - Rodina (1.51/100) 260. Party of Growth (1.29/100)

39. Samoa (as of March 4, 2016) : 2 261. Human Rights Protection Party (35/50) 262. Tautua Samoa Party (2/50)

40. Singapore (as of September 11, 2015) : 9 263. People’s Action Party (83/89) 264. Workers’ Party (6/89) Eligible by size of popular votes won – 265. Singapore Democratic Party (3.76/100) 266. National Solidarity Party (3.53/100) 267. Reform Party (2.63/100) 268. Singaporeans First (2.25/100) 269. Singapore People’s Party (2.17/100) 270. Singapore Democratic Alliance (2.06/100) 271. People’s Power Party (1.13/100)

41. Solomon Islands (as of November 19, 2014) : 9 272. Democratic Alliance Party (7/50) 273. United Democratic Party (5/50) 274. People’s Alliance Party (3/50) 275. Kadare Party of Solomon Islands (1/50) 276. Solomon Islands Party of Rural Advancement (SIPRA) (1/50) 277. Solomon Islands People First Party (1/50) Eligible by size of popular votes won – 278. National Transformation Party (2.85/100) 279. Solomon Islands Pan-Melanesian Congress Party (2.11/100) 280. Youth Owned Rural and Urban Party (1.43/100)

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42. Sri Lanka (as of August 17 2015) : 4 281. United National Front for Good Governance (106/225) 282. United People’s Freedom Alliance (UPFA) (95/225) 283. Tamil National Alliance (TNA) (16/225) 284. People’s Liberation Front (Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna – JVP) (6/225)

43. Syria (as of April 13, 2016) : 2 285. National Progressive Front (200/250) - Arab Socialist Ba’ath Party (134/250) - Socialist Unionists (18/250) - Communist Party of Syria (11/250) - National Vow Movement (3/250) - Arab Socialist Union (2/250) 286. Popular Front for Change and Liberation (6/250) - Syrian Social Nationalist Party (4/250) - People’s Will Party (2/250) * Opposition forces called for a boycott of the 2016 elections

44. Tajikistan (as of March 1, 2015) : 7 287. People's Democratic Party of Tajikistan (Hizbi Demokrati-Khalkii Tojikston) (51/63) 288. Agrarian Party of Tajikistan (5/63) 289. Party of Economic Reforms of Tajikistan (3/63) 290. Communist Party of Tajikistan (Hizbi Kommunisti Tojikston) (2/63) 291. Socialist Party (2/63) 292. Democratic Party (1/63) Eligible by size of popular votes won – 293. Islamic Renaissance Party (1.6/100)

45. Thailand (as of July 3, 2011) : 6 (*before the Coup in 2014) 294. Pheu Thai Party (265/500) 295. Democrat Party (Phak Prachathipat) (159/500) 296. Bhumjaithai Party (BJT) - "Blue Shirts" (34/500) 297. Chartthaipattana Party (19/500) 298. National Development Party for the Homeland (Chart Pattana Puea Pandin Party) (7/500) 299. Phalang Chon Party (7/500)

46. Tonga (as of November 16, 2017) : 1 300. Democratic Party of the Friendly Islands (14/26)

47. Turkey (as of June 24, 2018) : 5 301. Justice and Development Party – AK Party (Adalet ve Kalknma Partisi, AKP) (295/600) 302. Republican People's Party (Cumhuriyet Halk Partisi, CHP) (146/600) 303. Nationalist Movement Party (Milliyetçi Hareket Partisi, MHP) (49/600) 304. Peoples’ Democratic Party (Halklarin Demokratik Partisi, HDP) (67/600) 305. Democratic Party (yi Parti-Demokrat Parti, DP) (43/600)

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48. Turkmenistan (as of March 25, 2018) : 6 306. Democratic Party of Turkmenistan (DPT) (55/125) 307. Groups of citizens (48/125) 308. Party of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs of Turkmenistan (11/125) 309. Agrarian Party of Turkmenistan (11/125)

49. Uzbekistan (as of January 4, 2015) : 5 310. Uzbekistan Liberal Democratic Party (O'zbekiston Liberal Demokratik Partiyasi) (52/150) 311. Uzbekistan National Revival Democratic Party – “Milliy Tiklanish” (O'zbekiston Milliy Tiklanish Demokratik Partiyasi) (36/150) 312. Uzbekistan People's Democratic Party (O'zbekistan Xalq Demokratik Partiyasi) (27/150) 313. Justice Social Democratic Party – “Adolat” (Adolat Sotsial Demokratik Partiyasi) (20/150) 314. Ecological Movement of Uzbekistan (O`zbekiston ekologik hrkti)(15/150)

50. Vanuatu (as of January 22, 2016) : 21 315. Land and Justice Party (Graon mo Jastis Pati, GJP) (7/52) 316. Party of Our Land (Vanua'aku Parti) (6/52) 317. Union of Moderate Parties (6/52) 318. National Unity Party (NUP) (4/52) 319. Iauko Group (4/52) 320. Nagriamel Party (3/52) 321. Namangi Aute (3/52) 322. Vanuatu National Development Party (VNDP) (2/52) 323. VanuatuGreen Confederation (Confédération verte) (2/52) 324. Vanuatu Presidential Party (1/52) 325. People’s Progress Party (Parti progressiste populaire) (1/52) 326. Peoples Services Party (1/52) 327. Natatok Indigenous People’s Democratic Party (1/52) 328. Friend Melanesian Party (1/52) 329. Vanuatu Labour Party (1/52) 330. Leaders Party of Vanuatu (1/52) Eligible by size of popular votes won – 331. Vanuatu Republican Party (1.75/100) 332. Vanuatu Liberal Democratic Party (1.38/100) 333. Vanuatu National Party (1.14/100) 334. Unity for Change (1.12/100) 335. Hope Party (1.04/100)

51. Vietnam (as of May 22, 2016) : 1 336. Communist Party of Vietnam (ng Cng Sn Vit Nam) (473/494)

52. Yemen (as of April 27, 2003) : 4 337. General People's Congress (Al-Mu'tammar al-Sha'bi al-'Am) (226/301) 338. Yemeni Congregation for Reform (Al-Tajmu al-Yamani li al-Islah) (46/301) 339. Yemen Socialist Party (Hizb al-Ishtirakiya al-Yamaniya) (7/301) Eligible by size of popular votes won –

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340. Nasserite Unionist People's Organisation (Al-Tantheem al-Wahdawi al-Sha'bi al- Nasseri) (3/301, 1.85/100)

53. Palestinian National Authority (as of January 25, 2006) : 6 341. Hamas (Harakat al-muqwamah al-islmiyyah) (74/132) 342. Fateh (Harakat al-tahrr al-filastn) (45/132) 343. Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (Martyr Abu Ali Mustafa) (3/132) 344. The Alternative (2/132) 345. Palestinian National Initiative (2/132) 346. Third Way (2/132)

There are currently 340 Political Parties in 52 countries and 1 territory (Palestinian National Authority), which meet the following criteria to be eligible to participate in the ICAPP activities.

- Article 2 of the ICAPP Charter stipulates that “The ICAPP shall be open to political parties in Asia with democratically elected members in the parliaments of their respective countries, which are Member States of the United Nations. - The members of Standing Committee agreed to extend invitations to political parties in the Palestinian National Authority in an effort to render the ICAPP activities more inclusive and representative of the diversities existing in the region, at the 5th SC Meeting held in Seoul during June 1-3, 2006. - In consideration of the need to make the ICAPP more inclusive, it was further agreed at the 8th SC Meeting held in Tehran during November 22-23, 2007 that the following two criteria would be applied to the political parties in Asia to be eligible for invitation to the future ICAPP activities, including the General Assemblies; (1) Political parties which have more than one percent of elected seats in their national parliaments; or (2) Political parties which have won more than one percent of popular votes in their latest national parliamentary elections, as certified and recognized by their national election commissions.

There are no political parties which meet the above criteria to be eligible to participate in the ICAPP activities in the following 9 countries in the region: Brunei, Micronesia, Nauru, Oman, Palau, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Tuvalu and the United Arab Emirates. In this regard, there are several different political models as follows: Political parties exist, but no national elections are held; No political parties exist, though they are not banned; National elections are held, but no political parties exist; Countries are developing into a constitutional monarchy, but political parties are not yet allowed; or Political parties are banned.

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